At Pelotan, we exist to protect athletes from the sun — not just to prevent sunburn, but to enhance performance in the most demanding environments on earth. Today, we’re proud to welcome UAE Team Emirates to the Pelotan Sun Performance Family.
Few teams in modern cycling have defined dominance like UAE Team Emirates: the defining team of the last decade and the home of the GOAT, Tadej Pogačar. Grand Tour victories. Monument wins. A relentless pursuit of excellence. Their culture is built on precision, preparation, and performance at the highest level of the sport.
It’s that shared obsession with detail that makes this partnership so natural.
UAE Team Emirates began using Pelotan during testing last season — integrating our lightweight, sweatproof SPF30 protection into their race programmes. In elite sport, products don’t last long if they don’t deliver. Pelotan did.
From long alpine training days to Grand Tour stages under extreme UV load, the team recognised what we’ve been building for years: high-performance sun protection is a performance variable.
Our unique position — working in elite sport across Olympic programmes, IRONMAN champions, Tour winners, and now one of the most dominant teams in the peloton — gives us unparalleled insight into how sun exposure affects recovery, thermoregulation, oxidative stress and much more. These insights have been the cornerstone in a new direction for Pelotan that we’ve been refining with some of the best in the world over the past years, and are launching to the world this coming summer.
There will be more to share on how this relationship came about and why it represents a foundational step in our long-term direction, starting with a note from Pelotan’s founder next week to mark the start of the Tour of UAE. Over the coming seasons, we’ll be working closely with UAE Team Emirates to deepen our understanding of sun performance in elite sport — testing, learning, and refining together.
For now, it’s an unbelievable privilege to bring Pelotan to their performance protocols and we’re proud to say:
UAE Team Emirates x Pelotan
Sun Performance, at the highest level.