The revelation of 2024: he won the Tour of Turkey overall, then on his very first day of Tour de France racing dragged Romain Bardet into the yellow jersey in Rimini, taking second himself just five seconds ahead of the peloton. With no GC leader in this year's squad, the punchy all-rounder from Warmond is Picnic PostNL's chief weapon on the hilly days.
Palmarès
- Tour of Turkey overall winner plus stage 6 (2024)
- 2nd on stage 1 of the Tour de France in Rimini, after towing teammate Romain Bardet into yellow (2024)
- Tour of Qinghai Lake stage winner (2023)
Cut-out factHe was almost predestined to ride: his parents met on a cycling holiday in Portugal — yet Frank only got a road bike after tearing his ACL playing korfball at age 12.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Warren Barguil, Frits Biesterbos, Pavel Bittner, John Degenkolb, Robbe Dhondt, Niklas Märkl, Julius van den Berg — see the full Picnic PostNL team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: c8.alamy.com, author: see source, license: see source.
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