TOUR·KINETIC

Groupama-FDJ United · 2026 Tour de France
Climber-domestique for the mountain stages
Clément Berthet

One of eight winter signings in the team's 2026 refresh, Berthet crossed over from Decathlon AG2R to bring quiet, reliable climbing horsepower to the mountain train.

Clément Berthet paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Groupama-FDJ United kit

One of eight winter signings in the team's 2026 refresh, Berthet crossed over from Decathlon AG2R to bring quiet, reliable climbing horsepower to the mountain train. A former cross-country mountain biker who only switched to the road in 2021, he has ridden top-25 GC at both the Tour and the Vuelta. At this Tour he is the man Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet will want on his wheel when the road tilts up.

Palmarès

  • 2nd overall Vuelta a Andalucía / Ruta del Sol (2025)
  • 25th overall Tour de France (2023)
  • 20th overall Vuelta a España (2024)
  • 3rd Classic Grand Besançon Doubs (2025)
  • 2nd overall Tour du Jura (2025)
Cut-out factIn October 2025 he married Juliette Labous, France's top women's GC rider — who races for the sister squad FDJ United-Suez, making them cycling's newest one-family, one-sponsor power couple.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Romain Grégoire, Clément Braz Afonso, Ewen Costiou, Lorenzo Germani, Guillaume Martin, Quentin Pacher, Clément Russo — see the full Groupama-FDJ United team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Martino Photos, license: CC BY-SA 2.0. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.