Team CANYON NORTHWAVE MTB has announced a new title partner: SIDI, the leading Italian footwear brand for cycling and motorsports.
Source: press release
The team, which has won 4 world championship medals in the last 4 years, including a gold one from Andreas Seewald in 2021, will remain led by Kristian Hynek, former top rider, three-time world championship medalist and winner of the Cape Epic 2014 will be called CANYON SIDI MTB TEAM. The relationship between Sidi and the Team has been established for two seasons.


I am honored to welcome SIDI among our partners and look forward to this new collaboration. SIDI has big growth plans in the MTB market and we are happy to join forces with them to help achieve these goals. We visited their headquarters in Italy, where their main production is located and were amazed by their new development and craftsmanship. Now with SIDI we enter the 2024 season with new colors, with a proven lineup and with great ambitions to mark a fantastic and successful year – Kristian Hynek.
Offroad is already an important part of our business and we have significant investments in this category for the coming years. We are really happy to collaborate with Kristian and his team: we feel completely aligned and they will be a major input and test for the near future – CEO of Sidi, Davide Rossetti.
The CANYON SIDI MTB team will continue to consist of Andreas Seewald (DE), 2021 world champion, Martin Stošek (CZ), 2023 world vice champion, Marc Stutzman (CH), reigning Swiss champion and Stefanie Dohrn Walter (DE).


The team is currently undertaking its first stage race, the Mediterranean Epic in Spain, followed by the 6-day Andalusia cycling race. The highlight of the team's spring campaign will be the Cape Epic in South Africa. For Cape Epic, the team will once again be strengthened by former World Tour rider and current Canyon gravel rider Petr Vakoč.
The highlight of the season for Canyon SIDI MTB will be the World Championships in September in the USA, where Seewald, Stošek, Stutzman and Dohrn Walter will aim for success. Numerous other major events include the European Championships in Gdynia in June, the various national championships and the XCM World Cup circuit, which will begin in Nové Město na Moravě in May.
2024 CANYON NORTHWAVE MTB TRAINING
- Kristian Hynek – team owner and manager, 3-time world championship medalist, 2012 European champion, 2014 Cape Epic winner
- Andreas Seewald – Marathon World Champion 2021, European Champion 2021
- Martin Stošek – runner-up marathon world champion 2023, bronze of the 2021 European Championship, bronze of the 2020 World Championship
- Marc Stutzman – 2023 Swiss Champion, winner of the 2023 Swiss Epic
- Stefanie Dohrn – German marathon runner
- Robert Novotný – mechanic and co-founder of the team
- Torsten Walter – physiotherapist
- Kateřina Hemerková – Team support
