Te Kura o Tititea Mount Aspiring College (MAC) year 13 student and rising cycling star Carter Guichard has signed with a pro cycling team in Europe.

Next year Carter (18) will compete in around 30 of the most competitive races in Europe as a member of Nice Métropole Côte d'Azur.

“As a Neo-Pro [a professional cyclist in their first year] I know that my role will first be to help my teammates at first and be in the early race breakaways but I also hope to get a handful of standout results for myself,” Carter said.

His selection follows a successful year racing in Europe in the Decathlon AG2R under-19 development team, which aims to ‘detect and train the champions of tomorrow’.

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During the season Carter made first place in the Tour de la Vallée de la Trambouze, the Tour de Causse-Aigoual-Cévennes, and the Classique des Bourbons.

He placed second in the Three Days of Axel and the Prix de la Ville d’Aubenas and placed third in the New Zealand national championships.

Carter has a busy training regime: “My typical day looks like between 2.5 and 4 hours of training per day on average both in the gym and on the bike,” he said, “occasionally going up to over 6 hours of training per day.”

Carter will spend the next couple of months in Wānaka, training for the 2025 season.

In January, he will head to Spain to meet his team for its first training camp of the year.

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