Eglantine Rayer will switch from DSM-Firmenich PostNL after signing a two-year contract to hitch FDJ-SUEZ starting in 2025. The 20-year-old from La Ferté-Macé brings her climbing expertise to the French WorldTour staff by the top of the 2026 season.
“I’m delighted to quickly be part of this new household and write a brand new chapter in my profession with the FDJ-Suez staff. My purpose is to achieve a brand new degree within the years to return, and I selected this staff to progress and rediscover the pleasure of biking, the one which bought me began,” Rayer stated.
“I firmly consider that FDJ-Suez has the assets essential to assist younger abilities like me in the direction of the very best degree. It is a staff that has been increasing quickly for a number of years, and it’s a nice alternative to have the ability to be part of it at this pivotal second in my profession. I can not wait to start out this journey on this new setting, inside essentially the most stunning French staff.”
Rayer began her profession on the WorldTour with DSM-Firmenich PostNL in 2023 after a head-turning efficiency within the junior girls’s highway race the place she completed with the silver medal in Wollongong World Championships.
That 12 months, she additionally received the junior girls’s time trial on the French Championships and the junior girls’s highway race on the European Championships.
She has gone on to robust performances with high 10s on the Tour of Scandinavia, GP de Plouay, and Tour de Suisse, and this 12 months, she received a stage on the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes.
She will goal to proceed her growth on the WorldTour whereas additionally supporting compatriot and FDJ-SUEZ newcomer Juliette Labous within the top-level stage races. Rayer and Labous have spent the earlier two seasons as teammates at DSM.
“Eglantine represents the bike owner that each staff needs to have in its ranks: a way of racing and sacrifice for its leaders, an inexhaustible need to study from one of the best, a major margin for enchancment,” stated the staff’s common supervisor, Stephen Delcourt.
“She shall be an simple asset for the approaching seasons. We are blissful to finish our squad along with her expertise and to do every part to contribute to her development within the skilled peloton.”
