Dutch U23 rider Rens Teunissen van Manen joined the KMC Mountainbike Racing Team for season 2024-2025

Dutch U23 rider Rens Teunissen van Manen joins

KMC Team for season 2024-2025

We are happy and proud to announce young talented Dutch rider Rens Teunissen van Manen (DOB 30-09-2004), will ride the next 2 years for our Team. He joined the team per direct and travelled with the KMC Team to the last 2 UCI MTB World Series in Snowshoe, USA (September 28 – October 1) and Mt St Anne, Canada (October 5-8).

His current Team, the Dutch Stappenbelt Specialized Racing Team gives Rens the opportunity to make the next step to an International UCI Elite MTB Team.

Bart Brentjens, Team Manager of KMC Mountainbike Racing Team:

“Rens is a very talented mountainbiker, he has already proven this as a junior and in his 1st year in the U23 category. I am proud that Rens is joining our team, he has what it takes to become one of the best mountainbikers in the future. We will give Rens every opportunity to develop further. It is our ultimate goal for Rens to see him participating on behalf of the Netherlands and our team at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028.”

Rens Teunissen van Manen:

“Very happy to become a mountainbiker for the KMC MTB Racing Team! Looking forward to everything that’s coming in the next years! And thrilled to already be joining the team for the last two World cups in Snowshoe and Mont Saint Anne!”

Arvid Versluijs, Stappenbelt Specialized Racing Team:

“We are extremely proud of the growth that Rens has experienced at Stappenbelt Specialized Racing Team and know that he will achieve great things in his new adventure, in which we will certainly continue to follow him!”

Rens Teunissen van Manen (UCI Ranking 131) best results so far:

2023 World Championships U23 21st

2023 European Championships U23 22nd

2023 National Championships Men Elite 3rd

2023 Best result UCI World Series U23 (Val di Sole, Italy) 18th

2022 World Championships Juniors 4th

2022 European Championships Juniors 2nd

2022 National Championships Juniors 3rd

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– Less than 1 year to go to the Olympic Mountainbike races on July 28 and 29 –