Guillaume Martin will trip for Groupama-FDJ in 2025 after signing a two-year contract with the staff. The Frenchman leaves Cofidis after 5 seasons that included two top-ten finishes on the Tour de France.
Earlier on Thursday in different switch information, it was confirmed that Axel Zingle would additionally depart Cofidis on the finish of the season with a view to be a part of Visma-Lease a Bike. Cofidis, in the meantime, introduced that they’ve signed Dylan Teuns from Israel-Premier Tech for 2025.
“Frank Vandenbroucke was the final rider to win a Monument with Cofidis and I’m eager to do every part to intention for a podium at that type of race,” Teuns mentioned.
Martin’s departure from Cofidis had been closely touted in current months and was all however confirmed in a current interview with Le Monde wherein he highlighted shortcomings within the staff’s gear.
Groupama-FDJ confirmed Martin’s arrival on Thursday, the primary day on which groups can announce their signings for 2025. Martin’s arrival supplies the staff with an vital figurehead following the retirement of Thibaut Pinot final yr and the approaching departure of younger hope Lenny Martinez.
“For subsequent season, I felt the necessity for a change of surroundings and the need to find a brand new atmosphere,” Martin mentioned in an announcement on Thursday. “Groupama-FDJ is the fitting staff for me to proceed my profession. I really feel that I nonetheless have room for enchancment and this staff can present me with the means to progress to the very highest stage.”
Martin raced as a stagiaire with FDJ again in 2014, however regardless of successful the under-23 Liège-Bastogne-Liège the next Spring, no contract provide was forthcoming from Marc Madiot’s staff. Indeed, Martin didn’t obtain a proposal from any French squad, and he crossed the border to show skilled with Belgian squad Wanty in 2016.
“It was actually difficult to discover a staff,” Martin instructed Cyclingnews in 2020. “FDJ had taken me as a stagiaire however the subsequent yr, I had no information and no rationalization. My first provide was the one from Wanty, and it got here in October, so clearly I mentioned sure. And in hindsight, it was the perfect factor that might have occurred to me.”
After 4 seasons with Wanty, Martin moved to Cofidis in 2020. Highlights included ending eighth within the 2021 Tour and tenth in 2023, in addition to the king of the mountains title on the 2020 Vuelta a España and general victory on the 2022 Tour de l’Ain.
Martin is the second new signing to be confirmed by Groupama-FDJ for 2025. The staff has already indicated that Peace Race winner Brieuc Rolland will graduate from the event squad to the WorldTour subsequent yr.