Gravel team 2024

CAFÉ DU CYCLISTE GRAVEL TEAM 2024

For 2024, Café du Cycliste is bringing double trouble to gravel racing

Our long-running female team is being joined by four men conscripted from the Nice Métropole Côte d’Azur Pro Continental road racing squad.

All aged from 21-25 and based in and around the Côte d’Azur, the men will be taking time out from racing UCI road events to bring their athleticism and focus to the gravel arena. By bringing them into the Café du Cycliste fold, we’re investing in promising local talent – as well as showing the world the gravel playground that is the Nice backcountry.

Needless to say, we will again be supporting women’s racing with a four-strong team of female riders. Returning for her third year is María Ögn Guðmundsdóttir, and she is joined by three new teammates.

Read on for news on their race programme and interviews with all eight of our team athletes. So, men and women, bring it on in 2024!

The Race Program 2024

This year the teams’ programme is again based around the Gravel Earth Series, where our women riders have scored some notable successes, including winning the Rift and the Traka (100km), both in 2022.

In total, each team will race four events, including the infamous Traka, in Girona in May, and the series finale, Ranxo, also in Spain, in October, with the other two yet to be announced.
On the women’s side of things, our veteran team member María Ögn Guðmundsdóttir will pass on all her experience to three new teammates, and hope to inspire them to new successes.

For the men, top athletes as they are, the learning curve will undoubtedly be steep, but they are all eager to take on a new challenge in the dynamic world of competitive gravel racing.