Pascal Eenkhorn, Leonard Hofstede, Timo Roosen, and Christoph Pfingsten have signed contract extensions with Jumbo-Visma, the Dutch WorldTour team announced today.

Jumbo-Visma is now arguably the strongest team in professional cycling. While it remains to be seen if Primoz Roglic and Tom Dumoulin can overhaul the previously dominant Ineos Grenadier at this year's Tour de France, Wout Van Aert won stage 5 on Wednesday and has already won the season's He has won Strade Bianche and Milan-San Remo and looks to be one of the big contenders for the Tour de Flanders and Paris-Roubaix later this season.

"I can grow step by step in this team," 23-year-old Eenkhorn, now in his third year with the team, said in a press release.

"We have a great race program and my goal is to win races, both individually and as a team. I am very happy to be running with this attractive and cohesive Dutch team for the next two years." [25-year-old Hofstede also praised the family atmosphere of the team and said he is looking forward to improving his climbing.

"This team feels like a tight-knit family, and the team values fit my personality very well. I want to continue to develop myself over the next few years. I want to continue to develop myself in the coming years, especially when it comes to uphill riding. That's why this team is a good fit for me. Thanks to Team Jumbo Visma, I'm able to get the most out of myself.

Roussen will be entering his seventh season with the World Tour team next season.

"The fact that I will also be riding for Team Jumbo-Visma for the next few years is great," said the 27-year-old Dutch rider. We are both delighted and hope that we can continue the upward trend of the last few years in the coming period."

Roozen, Hofstede, and Eenkhorn signed two-year contract extensions, while Pfingsten signed a one-year deal.

Feingsten, a 32-year-old German rider who joined the team this year from Bora-Hansgrohe, said, "I was able to integrate well into this group right from the start. I get along well with the riders as well as the staff. That is very important for me and I feel very good with this team."

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In addition, Feingsten's compatriot Paul Martens, 36, signed a one-year extension at the end of last season and will remain with the team as a rider until the middle of next season. Martens had planned to retire at the end of this season, but decided to postpone the end of his racing career a little longer.

"It was a conscious choice to consider this year as my last. But the coronavirus crisis raised doubts and I reconsidered quitting so that I could finish my career in a dignified way," explained Martens, who has been with the team since 2008, when it was sponsored by Rabobank.

"I am very happy that the team gave me the opportunity to continue for half a season. I am looking forward to running two more of the most beautiful races like the Ardennes Classics and the Giro d'Italia." This year, the spring race was postponed to the fall because "that way I can finish my career in a beautiful way.

As announced in June, Maarten Winantz will also retire after next season's Paris-Roubaix with a short contract for 2021 and become the team's sporting director. According to a press release, Laurens de Plas, Taco van der Hoorn, Bert-Jan Lindemann, and Amund Groendahl Janssen (the latter currently racing in the Tour de France) will leave the team, and Tom Rieser will retire at the end of this season.

The contract extension announced will complete Jumbo Visma's roster for 2021.

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