The oldest man in the squad at 34, Pacher is France's archetypal baroudeur: a rider whose palmarès is thin on wins but heavy on heart, with Tour de France combativity awards in three different editions. In his fifth season with the team, the puncheur from Libourne is the road captain who marshals the youngsters, reads the wind, and then — inevitably — slips into another doomed, glorious escape. One day one of them will stick.
Palmarès
- Tour de France daily combativity awards (2021, 2024, 2025)
- 2nd on Vuelta a España stage 17 behind Rigoberto Urán (2022)
- First pro win: Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc stage after a 60 km solo (2020)
- Grand Tour breakaway stalwart across Giro, Tour and Vuelta (2016–2025)
Cut-out factHe didn't win his first professional race until age 28 — a 60-kilometre solo raid at the 2020 Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc — yet has been voted the Tour's most combative rider of the day in 2021, 2024 and 2025.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Romain Grégoire, Clément Berthet, Clément Braz Afonso, Ewen Costiou, Lorenzo Germani, Guillaume Martin, Clément Russo — see the full Groupama-FDJ United team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: equipecycliste-groupama-fdj.fr, author: see source, license: see source.
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