After revealing the 2025 squad of the WorldTeam a few weeks ago, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team officially revealed that of its development team! The latter will be able to count on twelve runners during the next financial year, two more than in 2024. The French Antoine L’Hote (photo), winner of Paris-Tours Espoirs last October 6, and Arthur Blaise will do a second season within Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Teamjust like the Dane Daniel Weis Nielsen.
Video – Aubin Sparfel will race with Decathlon AG2R Development in 2025
A Red Bull – BORA-hansgrohe rider among the arrivals!
The other nine riders are newcomers, five coming from outside while the other four are promoted from the Junior team. In the first category, we find among others a boy who has spent the last three seasons within a WorldTeam. This is German Luis-Joe Lührsturned pro in 2022 at BORA-hansgrohe (From now on Red Bull – BORA-hansgrohe) at the age of 19, but who never really managed to establish himself within the latter. In the second category, there are notably Aubin Sparfelchampion d’Europe Juniors de cyclo-cross. All these runners will be led by Guillaume Bonnafondvery recently appointed head of the youth teams of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team.
“The development and performance strategy implemented by the WorldTour team is applied and adapted, on a NewGen scale, to the Continental and Junior teams. In perfect alignment with the commitments of our partners, our objective is to supporting NewGen riders in a long-term project aimed at reaching the highest international level. We have thus strengthened the structure and supervision so that our young riders can maximize their potential. The 2025 DECATHLON squad. AG2R LA MONDIALE Development Team, made up of twelve riders from seven nationalities, is built in line with our sporting ambitions for the seasons to come: to perform in stage races, which are part of the team’s DNA, but also on the classics, like Antoine L’Hote’s victory on Paris-Tours Espoirs this season”declares the former professional runner on the French WorldTeam website.
The 2025 workforce of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
Ilian Alexandre Barhoumi (Switzerland / 19 years old)
Arthur Blaise (France / 19 years old)
Louic Boussemaere (Belgium / 18 years old)
Louis Chaleil (France / 18 years old)
Matthew Greenwood (Australie / 21 ans)
Kasper Haugland (Norway / 19 ans)
Marius Innhaug Dahl (Norway / 18 years old)
Antoine L’Hote (France / 19 years old)
Luis-Joe Lürhs (Germany / 21 years old)
Pelle Køster Mikkelsen (Denmark / 21 ans)
Daniel Weis Nielsen (Denmark / 19 years)
Aubin Sparfel (France / 18 years old)
