Brisbane: Pegasus Sports is pleased to announce that Hendrik Redant (BEL), Henk Vogels (AUS), Egon van Kessel (NED) and Edward Beamon (USA) have been appointed as sports directors of the first Australian professional cycling team to compete in Europe under a Pro Continental licence.

“With Hendrik, Henk, Egon and Ed as our sports directors, we are bringing to our team a lot of different characters with different backgrounds, but with a lot of experience,” said Pegasus Sports CEO Chris White. “This team of sports directors will work really well together, as we saw already in the first meetings we had.”

White added that he was happy to be able to continue working with Henk Vogels and Ed Beamon, who were also part of the successful Fly V team in 2009. “The chance to create something new together with these guys appeals to me, and I think it will also be a lot of fun.”

Redant will be the head sports director. “Working on a big new cycling project with a group of very motivated people is the next step in my cycling career,” he said. “Because I always wanted to share my experience and I feel lots of affection for Australia, being able to work as a sports director on the Pegasus Sports project is in a way a double dream coming true for me. My ambition is to bring together this young and promising team and help them perform at the top of international cycling.”