Bauke Mollema has announced that he’ll call time on a 19-year career in the peloton at the end of the 2026 season.
The 39-year-old Dutchman has split his time on the bike between just two teams – Rabobank and Lidl-Trek. He rose through the ranks at the Dutch team’s development squad before turning pro in 2008, and then made the switch to Trek for the 2015 season, where he’s stayed ever since.
Along the way, Mollema has picked up 18 victories, including two stages of the Tour de France (in 2017 and 2021) and a stage of the 2013 Vuelta a España. His biggest triumph, however, came at the 2019 edition of Il Lombardia, where he raced to victory ahead of Alejandro Valverde with an 18km solo ride.