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The 2011 season for began in January with the Tour Down Under, where defending champion André Greipel debuted for the team, and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTeam, they are automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour. The team's roster changed drastically from 2010. The team had 28 victories in 2011, which by itself is an impressive total as it tied them with and for third-most among the major teams, behind only and . But the caliber of the bulk of those victories set team Omega Pharma-Lotto apart. Team leader Philippe Gilbert won four races in ten days in April, including all three Ardennes classics, as well as five other races that counted toward the UCI World Tour rankings (and a further nine that did not), marking this as a truly dominant year for the Belgian. He handily won the individual World Tour crown, with his points total more than that of over half the ''teams'' in the standings. Thanks mostly to Gilbert, Omega Pharma-Lotto also won the World Tour team award. Greipel also proved a reasonably prolific winner, winning eight races on the season, three of which counted toward the World Tour rankings. The other major story for the team in 2011 was the rift of its two title sponsors. Omega Pharma, through their various product names, and the Belgian national lottery had sponsored the team since 2005, but it was announced relatively early in the 2011 season that they would not remain together after 2011, having different visions for the continuation of the team. Both remain as cycling sponsors, with Omega Pharma moving on to the newly branded in 2012 and the Belgian lottery adding Ridley to this formation, to be known as , for 2012. ==2011 roster== Ages as of January 1, 2011. ;Riders who joined the team for the 2011 season ;Riders who left the team during or after the 2010 season 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 Omega Pharma-Lotto season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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