Cofidis signs Belgian rider Michiel Coppens for the Classics

Michiel Coppens is leaving BEAT Cycling Club for the Cofidis team on a contract covering the next two seasons. He is the first reinforcement the team has announced for 2027. He already knows the squad: in summer 2024 he raced twelve days in Cofidis colours as a stagiaire.

An attacking rider who often goes up the road, Coppens counts the Flemish Classics as his speciality. This season he won GP Vermarc in March and spent long stretches in front at the Baloise Belgium Tour. He is coming back from a femur fracture a year earlier that kept him in hospital for more than ten weeks.

The team expects him, among other tasks, to support its sprinter Milan Fretin. The sponsor has backed professional cycling for almost thirty years and in Belgium also supports races such as La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Written by Bike Brussels based on equipecofidis.com (30 June 2026). Photo: © Renhour48 / Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

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