Abrahamsen targets Roubaix and Flanders as Uno-X enters the WorldTour
Jonas Abrahamsen believes Uno-X’s long-awaited promotion to the WorldTour will mark a new chapter for both himself and Norwegian cycling. After his breakthrough Tour de France stage win in Toulouse this year, the 30-year-old is ready to take on new challenges as the team prepares for life at the sport’s highest level.
In Trondheim, Uno-X hold its open and team days ahead of 2026, a season that will mark a turning point in the team’s history. For the first time, the Norwegian squad will compete full-time among the elite in the WorldTour, something Abrahamsen believes will have a ripple effect beyond the team itself. “It is very important for Norwegian, and by extension Scandinavian, cycling,” he said to In de Leiderstrui. “People love the Champions League, the highest level. There’s a lot of talk about it in Norway.”
The promotion crowns Uno-X’s steady rise in recent years. Abrahamsen’s Tour de France stage win this summer, achieved only weeks after breaking his collarbone at the Baloise Belgium Tour, was the team’s first-ever victory at the race and a moment that captured the resilience of both rider and team.
Now, he believes the WorldTour licence will open even more doors. “It’s very good for the rest of the team. The past two years we rode one Grand Tour, but now a lot more riders can ride a Grand Tour. And that’s good for the development of the team. Our calendar expands a lot, whereas before we had to pick our races.”
For Abrahamsen himself, the higher level brings fresh ambitions. “I would be up for a combination of Tour and Vuelta. To include the Giro, as a classic-type rider, is probably a bit too much of a good thing. Then you do the classics, Giro and Tour,” he explains.
“So my preference would be the Vuelta, but first I want to show myself in the classics. Also in races like Strade Bianche and Milan-San Remo, but definitely Flanders and Roubaix. I’m really going to those races with a lot of ambition.”
As for next summer’s Tour, Abrahamsen expects different opportunities than the year before. “In the last two weeks I do see some opportunities for us punchy riders,” he says. “Which stage suits me best, I can’t say right now. But I think I’m going to focus a bit more on the last two weeks, as I did, unintentionally, this year.”
With Uno-X now stepping onto cycling’s biggest stage, Abrahamsen sees the chance to keep building for himself and for Norwegian cycling.
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