Official presentation of the BUFF®- MEGAMO team for 2024

 After announcing some of their new signings, such as Pablo Rodriguez or European Champion Wout Allman, BUFF®-MEGAMO has officially presented at the BUFF headquarters in Igualada for the 2024 season.

Official presentation of the BUFF®-MEGAMO 2024 team

For the upcoming season, the team has strengthened with three new faces and will have a squad made up of five bikers in the male category and two in the female category. The main novelties of this season are the incorporation of the Belgian Wout  Alleman, who arrives as the current European champion and with a national championship under his belt, Pablo Rodríguez who comes from Cross Country, but already has experience in XCO, and the Dutch Rosa Van Doorn, champion of the Netherlands sub23 Cross Country and sub champion of the 2023 elite Marathon.

In addition to the new ones, the names of Enrique Morcillo, Hans Becking, José Días and Janina Wüat, all of them renewed for this year, must be added.

• WOUT ALLEMAN: The young 27-year-old Belgian biker has had a great 2023, winning the European championship and achieving stage victories and the overall in the best races in the world. The new signing is one of the most promising XCM riders of the moment.  
• ROSA VAN DOORN: At only 23 years old, the Dutch athlete sees 2024 as a year to evolve and learn as part of the team, and to take another step forward in her exceptional career.
• PABLO RODRÍGUEZ: The 30-year-old Spanish cyclist already knows well the feeling of being on the podium of the XCO World Championship. Determined to make the jump to XCM in 2024, his incorporation will bring new energy and talent.
• ENRIQUE MORCILLO: The 33-year-old from Ibiza is a veteran of the team and has already spent eight seasons in its ranks. A real bastion for BUFF-MEGAMO.
• HANS BECKING: It seems difficult for the Dutch cyclist to surpass the results of previous seasons, but that is his goal. 2024 will be his fourth season on the team and this year he will wear the national champion's jersey of the Netherlands again.
• JOSÉ DÍAS: At 29 years old, for the current champion of Portugal this will be his fourth season. In the previous ones, he has shown an incredible level of skill and performance and is a very established and integral part of the team.
• JANINA WÜST: She will be part of the team for the second season. Her presence in BUFF-MEGAMO consolidates the team's top-level status in the women's Marathon.

An ambitious calendar for 2024

This season the team will face an ambitious competition calendar with many stage races combined with one-day XCM races. In February, BUFF®-MEGAMO will start the season in the Legend of Tartessos between February 1 and 4 to open the 2024 MTB season.

A few days later, they will also compete in the Mediterranean Epic which will be held from February 8 to 11. An intense month that will end competing in the Andalusia Bike Race, from February 26 to March 2. A calendar that also contemplates the mythical Cape Epic between March 17 and 24. A month later, the team will compete in the 4 Islands MTB Croatia between April 16 and 20 and in the Transgrancanaria between May 16 and 19. It should be noted that they will also be present at the important appointment of the European XCM on June 15.

During the second half of the year, two of the main competition objectives will be the Sea Otter, on September 21 and 22, and the World Championship on September 28. All this, without ruling out the presence in some MTB test in the two previous months depending on the evolution of the season.

Team Manager, Pau Zamora, pointed out that “the main objectives of this year are to consolidate ourselves internationally as one of the best marathon teams in the world, with the number one goal of the Cape Epic, to have the maximum presence in the best races, to do well in the Europeans and World Championships, as well as to revalidate national titles and enter the world of gravel to be able to run some of the best races and look to be in the World Championship”.