INEOS Grenadiers' sports directors - Who are the men that have guided the team in 2025?

The 2025 season is over and soon there will be changes to the staff teams of all World Tour structures. Running a top team is a difficult job and even for a job as selective and important as being a sports director, teams need vast amounts of manpower to take the team through what can be at times a certain point in time where there is presence in three different races. So, who are the faces that have guided INEOS Grenadiers during the 2026 season?

The team has had 14 Sports directors throughout the year, although Zak Dempster, the man who led the team behind the wheel at the Tour de France, has moved away towards Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe where he has already taken up a key management job. He was however a former rider for the British team, and so are many of the names that have continued to lead the team in its tactics throughout the season. Out of these, Oliver Cookson and Kurt-Asle Arvesen are perhaps the most important names, although different men having different roles depending on the races.

The team counts on former riders such as Christian Knees, Dario Cioni, Ian Stannard, Leonardo Basso and Xabier Zandio who were (like Arvesen) all riders for the British team, who then underwent the training to take on a new role.

Furthermore other figures such as Simone Antonini, Josip Rumac and the very experienced Imanol Erviti - who has spent almost two decades racing for Movistar - are important figures in this field and men with experience racing in the pro peloton. Scott Drawer, Adrián López and Casten Jeppesen are also part of the team and take on roles in several races. In 2026 we are set to have a few changes, specially with the departure of Dempster as the head DS of the team.