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Team Vorarlberg Season Review 2025
A Year Full of Success and Emotions
What a year for Team Vorarlberg! National league champions, fifth place at the GravelWorld Championships, Tour of Malopolska victory, prestigious UCI stage wins, incredibleperformances, and an outstanding Tour of Austria with an overwhelming atmosphere inFeldkirch. No wonder Team Vorarlberg Manager Thomas Kofler speaks of one of the bestseasons in the team’s history. But let’s take it chronologically – here’s 2025 in fast-forward.
Tour of Hellas in April
After five stages and 800 kilometers total distance, we finish as the third-best team of 20competitors. Additionally, two top-10 finishes in the general classification: Colin Stüssiplaces fifth, Jannis Peter ninth.
Tour of the Alps in April
Team captain Colin Stüssi’s form building progresses perfectly for the season’s highlights. Achallenging tour with nearly 15,000 meters of climbing over five days, which he completesas the best Continental rider in an impressive 25th place. A strong signal comes fromDaniel Geismayr, who is visible on TV for much of the final stage from Lienz, staying withthe best climbers in the field. Equally impressive is Emanuel Zangerle’s performance on thefourth stage: in temperatures barely above freezing, he defies difficult conditions and,thanks to an incredible effort, keeps pace with the best in a heavily-stacked field – a daythat will be talked about in cycling circles for years to come.
GP Vorarlberg in May
Grand cycling spectacle with 24 teams and professionals from over 20 nations tackling ademanding 163-kilometer circuit from Nenzing in beautiful weather. In the end, SlovenianJaka Marolt comes out on top. At Austria’s only World Cup status one-day race, ColinStüssi finishes a narrow second after a fabulous comeback. Tremendous excitementalong the course and lap speeds of up to 46 km/h are the icing on the cake of animpressive cycling festival.
Upper Austria Cycling Tour in May/June
The Team Vorarlberg express is picking up speed. Jannis Peter wins the queen stage of the16th International Upper Austria Cycling Tour in impressive fashion. His second-placegeneral classification finish is the biggest success of the 24-year-old German’s young career.
Tour of Malopolska in June
Alexander Konychev secures Team Vorarlberg’s overall victory at the Tour of Malopolska.The Italian prevails in Poland by two seconds ahead of Finland’s Kasper Borremans.Beyond the overall victory, the 26-year-old also claims the points classification. Thanks toColin Stüssi in seventh, Emanuel Zangerle in ninth, and Jannis Peter in 13th place, theVorarlberg team also wins the team classification among 29 teams.
Tour of Austria in July
Those who thought the cycling enthusiasm of Vorarlbergers had been exhausted at theNenzing GP were proven wrong at the Tour of Austria. “Overwhelming, how cycling-crazyVorarlberg is. Just pure goosebumps,” comments Thomas Kofler as stage coordinator of thefinal stage finishing in Feldkirch, which goes to Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels. 144 kilometers,3,400 meters of climbing with mountain finishes at Furka, Faschinajoch, and Dünserberg,40,000 spectators according to officials – these are the raw numbers, but the spectacle andemotions are indescribable. Team Vorarlberg is right in the middle, as the most successfulContinental team of the Tour with Jannis Peter’s sensational ninth place overall, whostorms into the world elite on the second-to-last day with the ride of his life at Kühtai.Emanuel Zangerle is recognized as the most active rider of the Tour and finishes second inthe king of the mountains competition. The overall victory in an enormously competitivefield goes to none other than young Mexican Isaac Del Toro, who is being touted as TadejPogačar’s successor. Kilian Feurstein finishes as the tenth-best Austrian in 66th placeoverall.
Czech Cycling Tour in August
Fantastic Jannis Peter! The queen stage of the Czech Tour sees him celebrate a stage victory– the biggest success of his young career. At the tough mountain finish after 179 kilometerson Pustevny, he outsmarts the World Tour and UCI Pro teams, has the most strengthreserves in the steep sprint, and leaves the competition no chance. With this sensationalvictory, the 24-year-old moves up to fourth place overall, just 18 seconds shy of the podium.Team Vorarlberg finishes a strong seventh in the team classification.
National Cycling League from March to September
A show of force at the final National Cycling League event in the Mühlviertel: TeamVorarlberg with Alexander Konychev, Emanuel Zangerle, Daniel Geismayr, Colin Stüssi,Felix Stehli, Kilian Feurstein, Laurin Nenning, Pirmin Benz, and Lukas Meiler (in his finalrace of his career) storms back in the last race to overtake Hrinkow Advarics and claim thetitle – the perfect conclusion to a perfect season. Alexander Konychev wins in Königswiesenand finishes second overall behind Riccardo Zoidl.
Gravel World Championships in October
Felix Stehli delivers the ride of his life at the World Championships in Maastricht. Over 181kilometers and 1,500 meters of climbing, he battles with the world’s best, rides an incrediblerace and has podium chances well into the finish. The Swiss finishes fifth ahead of top starTom Pidcock – just 18 seconds short of a medal. Vorarlberg’s Daniel Geismayr and young Kilian Feurstein also perform brilliantly, finishing in the top 50 among 300 starters after afabulous comeback.
At the European Championships in September in Avezzano, Stehli and Feurstein reach thefinish as 14th and 15th respectively on a super-difficult course. Daniel Geismayr crashesthrough no fault of his own and has to abandon. Things look entirely different for theDornbirn native at the E-Bike World Federation World Championships in Ischgl, where heimpressively claims the title.
Detailed Overview of Team Vorarlberg Successes and Results More information at: https://www.procyclingstats.com/team/team-vorarlberg-2025/overview/start
Goals Surpassed
“We delivered in 2025. All agreed-upon goals were exceeded. Even though we don’t have thefinancial resources of the big teams, the team as a unified unit performed excellently and wascompetitive at almost every race. Winning a stage race (Alexander Konychev / Tour ofMalopolska) is always a highlight. But especially the strong performance at the Tour ofAustria, the stage wins at the Czech Tour and Upper Austria Cycling Tour made waves. ColinStüssi demonstrated his quality at the Tour of Hellas (fifth place) as well as the RomaniaCycling Tour (second place) and in front of his home crowd with second place at GPVorarlberg. Particularly as a collective, young professionals like Laurin Nenning and KilianFeurstein developed splendidly. We’re also pleased that gravel racing worked out perfectly forus and we were able to win the National Cycling League. We’re absolutely thrilled that ourhome races became real highlights for Vorarlberg cycling. So we look back with gratitude andsatisfaction and are correspondingly motivated heading into 2026!”
Team Vorarlberg Manager Thomas Kofler
On behalf of the entire team, thank you very much for your cooperation and the great collaboration over the past year!
Keep on riding!
Press service Team Vorarlberg
