L’Nantes Atlantique cycling union crosses a new step in his story: his professional team becomes France Pro Cycling Academya strong brand to assert its ambition and its commitment to elite training. Since 2022, the club has been evolving at the level Continental hars With a clear positioning: forming the champions of tomorrow. With its inheritance (founded in 1909) and its status as a single and unique approved training center, by the Ministry of Sports and the French Cycling Federation, the club now structures its future with a CAP: integrate theI was protected by 2027, aim for participation in Tour de France to Horizon 2032.
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40 talents, a vision
France Pro Cycling Academy brings together 40 cyclists in the making, women and men, including 15 professionals. Each year, several of them integrate the pros platoons thanks to a demanding and structured learning. In three years, 8 cyclists trained at theUCNA joined the UCI Worldour and UCI Protam, with among others, Louis Barré, Jordan Jegat, Clément Braz Afonso. This model is reinforced by the desire to structure training contracts, in order to enhance the investment made on each young talent.
A springboard for future generations
This new identity, which will be deployed from January 1, 2026, embodies a vision: training, accompanying, bringing out. It also opens the way to new partnerships, in particular with national companies engaged alongside the challenges of new generations.
Thought to be used in naming, France Pro Cycling Academy Allows you to adopt the distinctive codes of namers. Thus, the club will wear the colors of CIC and U, its two title partners, for the next season. THE CIC U Nantes started the professional adventure in 2022, positioning itself as a training club which accompanies young talents towards the high level. In 2026, place at France Pro Cycling Academyan evolution of the structure that promises new ambitions for the years to come.
