Three talented riders are joining Team RadioShack in 2011: one rider from Trek-Livestrong, Jesse Sergent (New Zealand), the experienced Manuel Antonio Cardoso (Portugal) from Footon-Servetto and one young rider from the Caja Rural Team, Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland).
Manuel Antonio Cardoso (Paços de Ferreira, Portugal, April 7th, 1983) scored this year his first ProTour victory over Alejandro Valverde, Cadel Evans and Peter Sagan in the sprint in Stirling (Tour Down Under). In the last five years the 2009 national road champion won 33 races as a professional rider (for the teams Carvalhelhos-Boavista, Riberalves-Boavista, Liberty Seguros and Footon-Servetto).
Jesse Sergent (Feilding, NZ, July 8th, 1988) is the silver medalist of the world pursuit championship, 2010. In May he won the time trial stage in the Tour of Gila over specialists Levi Leipheimer and Dave Zabriskie. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Sergent won the bronze medal as part of the New Zealand team in team pursuit. Since August 2010 Jesse Sergent is stagiair rider for Team RadioShack.