Marcel Kittel returns to competition with the Unibet Rose Rockets

Retired since 2019, the German sprinter joins Unibet Rose Rockets as a specialized coach in mass finishes to try to extract the maximum performance from the team's star signing, Dylan Groenewegen.

Unibet Rose Rockets seeks its path to win a spot in the next Tour de France through sprints

After the surprising signing of Dylan Groenewegen by Unibet Rose Rockets, the French team continues to strengthen its roster, now in the technical aspect with the addition of Marcel Kittel to the staff.

The great German sprinter will have the task of being the sprint coach, aiming to extract the maximum performance from the Dutch cyclist, bringing to the team an experience that includes 19 stages in grand tours, including 14 in the Tour de France, for a total of 89 victories that adorn his palmarès.

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A tough mission for Marcel Kittel to recover the best version of Dylan Groenewegen, who in 2025 only achieved 3 victories, none of them at the highest level. “We will work with Dylan to identify exactly where there is room for improvement,” Kittel explained.

The aspirations of the young team to achieve the dream of receiving one of the invitations to participate in the next Tour de France lie in the performance of the Dutchman and the possibility of accumulating the maximum number of possible wins in the first half of the season, in a year when everything seems to align for them to succeed.