Jan-Niklas Droste

Director Health & Performance | Building High-Performance Teams in Elite Sport | Medicine, Performance & Data Integration

Greater Salzburg

About

As Director of Health & Performance in professional cycling, I lead a multidisciplinary department responsible for athlete health and performance, including medicine, physiotherapy, nutrition, mental performance and race support. My focus is on building high-performance teams and integrated systems that enable athletes to perform consistently at the highest level. Alongside my work in professional cycling, I gained experience in elite football with RB Leipzig, first serving as team doctor and later as Head of Medicine within the club’s first team environment. With a background in medicine and elite sport, I am particularly interested in how health, workload management and performance data can be integrated to support sustainable high performance. I believe that successful performance environments are built on collaboration, clarity of roles and athlete-centred decision making. Interested in connecting with people working on high-performance systems, athlete health and performance innovation.

Experience

  • Director Health & Performance at Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Arzt at BG Klinikum Hamburg
    Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

  • RB Leipzig (3 yrs 3 mos)
    • Leiter Medizin
      Jun 2024 - Dec 2024 · 7 mos

    • Mannschaftsarzt
      Oct 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Head of Medical at Bora-Hansgrohe
    2017 - Dec 2020 · 4 yrs

  • Teamarzt at Bora-Argon 18
    2016 - 2016 · Less than a year