Jamie Meehan (21), the former U23 Irish road race champion, has signed his first contract with a UCI Continental team and will be based in France next year.
Meehan - who competed at home for VC Glendale and Spellman Dublin Port - rode for top French elite team CC Étupes this year and has also been a regular on the Irish team, including riding Tour de l'Avenir.
He now moves from from CC Étupes for the upcoming 2025 campaign, having signed for AVC Aix-en-Provence, the former elite team that will race at UCI Continental level from next season.
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It is Meehan's first contract with a UCI-ranked team and comes after an impressive season this year, where he showed very strongly in some of the hardest races on the elite French calendar.
Meehan raced very consistently through the season and was 2nd in Trophée Souvenir Roger Walkowiak-Ville de Cusset as well as placing 13th overall at Ronde de I'Isard, the UCI-ranked event that is one of the most prestigious and hardest on the U23 international calendar.
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He was also 6th at Classic 71 and placed 5th overall at Dornan Rás Mumhan on home roads last Easter, as well as gaining selection for the national U23 team for the UCI World Road Championships in Zurich.
Meehan is one of eight new signs for the team, most of whom are French, by AVC Aix-en-Provence as it moves up to Continental level. British rider Zachary Walker - 9th in the junior road race at the Worlds two years ago - is also among the new faces in the team.
