A Club Betting Its Future on Womens Racing: Mavic and St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93

A Club Betting Its Future on Women's Racing

The club behind St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93 has been part of French cycling for more than seventy years, with men's and women's programs running alongside each other. The men's side turned professional in 1994, rode the Tour de France five times, and won a stage at Lac de Madine in 1996, with riders including Tony Gallopin and Steve Chainel coming through its ranks.

From 2027, the club is directing its full professional focus toward the women's team.

In the club's own words, the aim is to meet the challenges of cycling today and tomorrow by concentrating its professional resources on the women's squad, currently registered as a UCI Women's ProTeam. It is an ambitious roadmap for a program that has grown quickly, and it places the women's team at the center of everything the club builds next.

For an organization with this much history, that is a clear statement about where it sees the sport heading. It is also the kind of long-term thinking we recognize.

Nine Days from Lausanne to Nice

The women's team was founded in 2012, registered with the UCI in 2022, and stepped up to UCI Women's ProTeam status in 2025, one of only seven teams at that level. It has been invited to every edition of the Tour de France Femmes since the race returned.

This year's race was decided by eight seconds going into the final stage, with five different riders wearing the yellow jersey across nine days before Demi Vollering claimed her second title.

For St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93, the story was aggression and progress.

Émilie Morier finished 19th on general classification, improving on her 25th place in 2025. At 29, having come to road racing from triathlon, she was 19th on the opening stage in Lausanne and then found another level in the second half of the race: 15th at the summit of Mont Ventoux on the queen stage, moving her from 34th to 24th overall in a single day, then 20th in Nice.

Solène Muller finished 34th on general classification and 6th in the young riders classification in her first Tour, at 22 years old. On stage 3, she crossed the Col de la Savine in third place, behind only Sigrid Haugset and Puck Pieterse. On Ventoux, she was 21st. In a time trial where the whole team was separated by seconds, she finished one second ahead of Morier.

The team's mark on this Tour was not made by sitting in the bunch. Alison Jackson attacked consistently and set the tone from the opening day, racing with the aggression that has defined her career. That culture runs through the roster. Across the nine stages, the team went with the moves, forced chases, and put riders into breakaways, which is how Solène Muller found herself third over the Col de la Savine on stage 3.

Three North Americans in a French Jersey

For American riders and fans, this team is worth knowing for a specific reason. Three of the seven riders at the Tour came from North America.

Heidi Franz, 31, has built a career across North American and European racing, with wins including the Egmont Cycling Race in 2023 and a stage of the Tour of Portugal in 2025. In a nine-day Grand Tour, that experience goes into protecting and positioning teammates as much as into her own result.

Caroline Wreszin, 25, rode her first Tour this year. She was 6th at the 2026 US Time Trial Championships and 13th in the road race, and she brings the kind of versatile, solo-effort strength a team leans on across changing terrain.

Alison Jackson, the 37-year-old Canadian, won Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2023 by attacking and spending most of the day off the front. She is the rider on this roster with the biggest single result, and the one who sets the tone for how the team races.

Add French riders Morier, Muller, and Grangier and Spanish all-rounder González, and you have four nationalities and several generations in one squad. That mix is the point. A ProTeam is where riders get their chance at this level, and this one has a record of producing them. You can read about all seven riders who started this Tour here.

Thirty Years With One Club

Mavic has supplied wheels and technical equipment to the Aubervilliers club for more than three decades. In 2023 and 2024, we went further and became a co-title sponsor when the team raced as St Michel-Mavic-Auber93.

Since then we have focused our support where it matters most, on being the best technical partner we can be for a program with big ambitions. We still supply the wheels. We still show up at the races. A partnership measured in decades rather than seasons is worth more to a team than a name on a jersey, and it is the kind of relationship we have always enjoyed.

Comete 50, Cosmic SLR 45, Prototypes

What They Raced

Across all nine stages, the team rode two wheelsets, chosen stage by stage against the terrain.

The Comete 50 pairs a 50 mm profile with full carbon spokes at 1,315 g, balancing aerodynamics against low weight for the fast days.

The Cosmic SLR 45 runs a 45 mm profile with 23 mm internal width, ceramic bearings, and Fore Carbon technology, built for versatility, responsiveness, and stability when the road turns up.

From sprint finishes in Geneva to the slopes of Mont Ventoux, the same equipment had to work across every kind of day. That's the test we build for.

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The 2026 season is not over, and 2027 is the one to watch. A club with seventy years of history is pointing everything it has at women's racing, and Mavic will be on the wheels when it does.

You can meet the full roster on the St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93 team page.