EF Education-EasyPost
EF Education–EasyPost is an American UCI WorldTour professional cycling team managed by Jonathan Vaughters. The team began in 2003 and has raced under several names, including Slipstream, Garmin, and Cannondale, before adopting its current identity in 2022. Known for its international roster and unconventional racing style, the team has claimed stage wins in all three Grand Tours. Key riders include Richard Carapaz, Ben Healy and Neilson Powless.
Full official team name and common short name
EF Education-EasyPost; commonly “EF” or “EF Education”. Their UCI Identifier is EFE.
Team category and status
UCI WorldTeam (men’s road), with automatic entry to all WorldTour events, including the three Grand Tours and five Monuments.
Primary disciplines
Men’s elite road racing across Grand Tours, one‑week stage races and one‑day classics, with a continued “alternative calendar” presence in off‑road and endurance events that support brand and athlete development.
The team also fields a women’s squad competing at the very highest level of the sport.
Country of registration and base location
The team is registered in the United States, but its service course is based in Girona, Spain.
Founding year and origin story
Founded in 2003 by Jonathan Vaughters as Slipstream Sports, the team rose through the ranks as an early advocate of clean racing and data driven performance. Successive title sponsors Garmin, Cannondale, and EF helped build a stable WorldTour platform with a distinctive culture.
Current title sponsor and key partners
Title sponsors are EF Education, a global education company, and EasyPost, a shipping and logistics platform. The team rides Cannondale SuperSix EVO LAB71 and SystemSix road bikes, and the SuperSlice for time trials, with SRAM Red AXS groupsets, Vision Metron wheels, and Vittoria tyres. Contact points and kit come from fi’zi:k saddles, ASSOS apparel, POC helmets and eyewear, and Wahoo computers and trainers.
Previous team names and sponsor history
Over the years, the team has raced under a succession of title sponsors, moving from Slipstream–Chipotle to Garmin–Slipstream, Garmin–Cervélo and Garmin–Sharp, then into the Cannondale era with Cannondale–Garmin and Cannondale–Drapac, before becoming EF Education First–Drapac, later EF Education First Pro Cycling, and today EF Education–EasyPost.
Key achievements throughout the team’s history
Tour of Flanders winner in 2019 through Alberto Bettiol, alongside multiple stage victories across the Tour, Giro, and Vuelta. The team also claimed a Vuelta a España podium in 2020 with Hugh Carthy, plus Tour de France mountains and combativity awards, and a steady stream of national and continental titles on the road and in time trials. Underpinning it all is a long record of breakaway wins and time spent in the jerseys across all three Grand Tours.
Who are the notable riders for 2026?
Richard Carapaz leads the team’s stage race ambitions and Grand Tour GC bids, with Ben Healy continuing to hunt hilly classics and raid stages through his trademark long range attacks.
Neilson Powless adds leadership across one day races and stage racing, while Marijn van den Berg spearheads sprint opportunities when the finishes suit. Kasper Asgreen strengthens the classics core with proven cobbled pedigree and late race craft, and Harry Sweeny adds engine room depth for hard days, breakaways and the long pulls that make aggressive racing stick.
In support roles, James Shaw and Georg Steinhauser bring climbing strength and breakaway punch, helping shape a roster that mixes proven winners with developing talent built for EF’s aggressive approach.
Leadership and key staff
The team is led by manager and CEO Jonathan Vaughters, with Charly Wegelius as Director of Racing, while the sports director group includes Juanma Gárate, Tom Southam and Tejay van Garderen, backed by a performance team covering coaching, nutrition, time trial and aero, and data analysis.
Key alumni
EF Education EasyPost’s alumni reflect the team’s Slipstream, Garmin and Cannondale lineage, spanning two decades of Grand Tour victories, Monument success, and breakout stories. Ryder Hesjedal delivered the 2012 Giro d’Italia, while Dan Martin won Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2013 and Il Lombardia in 2014 in Garmin Sharp colours. David Millar and Christian Vande Velde were early standard bearers, joined by sprint winner Tyler Farrar.
Andrew Talansky claimed the 2014 Critérium du Dauphiné, Ramūnas Navardauskas added stage wins in the Tour and Giro, and Taylor Phinney’s comeback seasons brought a renewed classics presence and a defining Giro stage. In later eras, Rigoberto Urán led Grand Tour podium campaigns, Michael Woods delivered Ardennes and Vuelta stage victories, and Magnus Cort emerged as a relentless Tour stage hunter.
Sep Vanmarcke and Dylan van Baarle sharpened their classics craft within the programme before thriving elsewhere, while Lawson Craddock, Jack Bauer and Pierre Rolland supplied the kind of long range breakaway rides that became part of the team’s identity.