“I’ve always been into cycling, I watched the races on TV hoping that it would be me one day. I also followed the amateur races in which my father took part, I even did a stage of the Tour du Beaujolais in a kid’s car. »
With a father who was a former runner and worked in the industry, first at Mavic in Annecy for eight years then founder of the Materiel-vélo.com store in Gleizé, and a mother who was a sports teacher, Mattéo Vercher’s path was clear.
Adept at cyclo-cross
Trained at UC Belleville where his father was an educator when the family moved to Saint-Étienne-des-Oullières, the recent French amateur champion is also a fervent follower of cyclo-cross, a discipline “less monotonous, more fun that allows you to develop your agility”, before signing with VC Vaulx-en-Velin.
“We were several runners from different clubs and we all wanted to be together. Vaulx-en-Velin applied with Régis Auclair and Michel Gros. We were…
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