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Seff Van Kerckhove is reportedly heading to Visma-Lease a Bike
Seff Van Kerckhove will join Visma-Lease a Bike despite having previously signed a long-term contract to continue with Decathlon-CMA CGM, DirectVelo reports. The 18-year-old, reigning Belgian junior national time trial champion, will start in Visma's development team ahead of an expected call-up to the WorldTour squad.
What this means
Van Kerckhove's planned move reunites him with his brother Matisse at Visma-Lease a Bike, where Matisse joins the WorldTour squad in 2027.
Van Kerckhove had announced in June 2026 that he had chosen to extend his stay with Decathlon CMA CGM, signing a long-term contract with the team he had raced for since 2025. DirectVelo now reports he has changed those plans to move to Visma-Lease a Bike instead. His older brother, Matisse Van Kerckhove, has spent two years in Visma-Lease a Bike's development team and is set to join the WorldTour squad in 2027. Van Kerckhove finished third in the junior men's time trial at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships Kigali and has won races including La Classique des Alpes Juniors, Giro della Lunigiana, Eroica Juniores and Volta Castelló. In September 2026, he was hit by a driver while training near Montreal and withdrew from the 2026 UCI Road World Championships Montreal, months after a December 2025 collision left him with four fractured vertebrae.
Sources
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