In her ninth season as a professional, Heidi Franz leveraged her performance at the UCI Gravel World Championships – where she was one of just two top-15 finishers not riding for a UCI WorldTour or women’s ProTeam – to secure a contract for 2026, marking her sixth team in the past five years.
Franz, who raced for Cynisca Cycling before the team folded this year, will be joining St michel-Preference Home-Auber93, a France-registered women’s ProTeam.
In November, the French squad, founded as an amateur team in 1948 and stepping up to the professional ranks in 1994, announced the addition of PremierTech as a sponsor as well as a surprising roster signing in Alison Jackson, the reigning Canadian road champion and winner of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2023.
Franz (30) raced the 2025 season as a co-leader for the American Cont
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