Paul Seixas

Paul Seixas (born 24 September 2006) is a French road cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Subsequent victories as a Junior, including the 2025 Tour de l'Avenir, and performances in his first two years as a professional cyclist, including being the youngest rider ever to finish in the top 10 of a UCI World Tour stage race at 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné, have led him to be described as "the next great talent" of professional cycling. Seixas became interested in cycling watching it with his grandfather on French television. His great-grandfather was Portuguese married to a Czechoslovakian wife.

Paul began riding aged 8 with a local cycling club, Lyon Sprint Évolution (LSE). He was described as absent-minded and shy by his teachers, but he quickly succeeded in cycling, winning numerous age-range categories between 9 and 14 with LSE. He then moved to Anse in 2021 and joined the Vélo Club Villefranche Beaujolais (VCVB).

Cycling career Junior career Seixas was French national Cadets (under-17) champion in both the road (2021) and Cyclo-cross (2022) disciplines.

In 2023, aged 16, he joined the AG2R Citroën U19 and competed in the Junior category for the first time. He won four races, including sixth in the Junior European Cyclo-Cross championships. Subsequently in 2024, still aged just 17, he won a notable number of junior titles and races: Liege-Bastogne-Liege Juniors, the French national Junior titles in Cyclo-Cross and Time-Trial, and taking third in the European Junior Time-Trial. The Worlds win brought him to global attention for the first time, and he subsequently turned professional with Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale. He took his first professional podium with second at Paris-Camembert, and the points jersey at the Tour of the Alps. raising further his profile as a potential Tour winner. Skipping the Junior category, he won medals at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships and 2025 European Road Championships: a silver in the Mixed team relay at the former, and a bronze in the Men's road race at the latter. It was at this point that commentators started noting that, in France in particular, the hype around Seixas was building dramatically, with warnings about rising expectations. On 19 February, Seixas claimed his first professional victory on stage 2 of the Volta ao Algarve, winning atop the Alto da Fóia ahead of João Almeida and Juan Ayuso. At Strade Bianche on 7 March, Seixas was the only rider to attempt to follow Pogačar's attack 79 km from the finish; he was eventually dropped but managed to distance Isaac del Toro in the final kilometre, to finish second. By this point, Seixas was being described as "the next great talent" after the dominant Pogačar. April 2026 brought Seixas' first World Tour stage race win with the overall and three stages at the Tour of the Basque Country, and his first World Tour one day race win at La Flèche Wallonne.

Major results Road

2023 1st Overall Tour du Pays d'Olliergues 1st Mountains classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stages 1 & 3 1st Trofeo Guido Dorigo 2nd Overall Tour du Valromey 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 2nd Overall Watersley Junior Challenge 1st Young rider classification 2nd La Classique des Alpes Juniors 3rd Overall Eroica Juniores 1st Young rider classification 4th Overall Saarland Trofeo 1st Young rider classification 5th Coppa Andrea Meneghelli 6th Overall Tour de Gironde 1st Young rider classification 8th E3 Saxo Classic Juniors 2024 UCI World Junior Championships 1st Time trial 7th Road race National Junior Championships 1st Time trial 1st Team relay 3rd Road race 1st Overall Giro della Lunigiana 1st Points classification 1st Mountains classification 1st Stage 1 1st Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud 1st Stage 3 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège Juniors 1st La Classique des Alpes Juniors 1st La Classic Région Sud Juniors 2nd Overall Tour du Valromey 1st Mountains classification 1st Stage 5

3rd Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan 6th Overall Eroica Juniores 1st Mountains classification 2025 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Young rider classification 1st Prologue & Stage 6b (ITT) 1st Points classification, Tour of the Alps

2nd Paris–Camembert

3rd Time trial, National Championships 5th Grand Prix La Marseillaise 7th Giro di Lombardia 8th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 2026 (7 pro wins) 1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1st Points classification 1st Mountains classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stages 1 (ITT), 2 & 5 1st La Flèche Wallonne 1st Ardèche Classic 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 2 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2nd Strade Bianche 4th Overall Tour de France Held after Stage 14

General classification results timeline Grand Tour general classification results Grand Tour 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — — Tour de France —4 Vuelta a España —Major stage race general classification results Major stage race 2025 2026 Paris–Nice — — Tirreno–Adriatico — — Volta a Catalunya — — Tour of the Basque Country —1 Tour de Romandie — — Critérium du Dauphiné8 DNF Tour de Suisse — —

Classics results timeline Monument 2025 2026 Milan–San Remo — — Tour of Flanders — — Paris–Roubaix — — Liège–Bastogne–Liège —2 Giro di Lombardia7Classic 2025 2026 Strade Bianche —2 La Flèche Wallonne —1 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec — Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Cyclo-cross

2022–2023 1st Overall Swiss Junior Cup 1st Steinmaur 1st Hittnau 3rd Mettmenstetten 1st Junior Bulle 1st Junior Orée d'Anjou 1st Junior Dijon Junior Coupe de France 2nd Troyes I 2023–2024 1st National Junior Championships Swiss Junior Cup 1st Mettmenstetten 3rd Steinmaur 1st Junior Brionne 2nd Junior Illnau Junior Coupe de France 3rd Quelneuc I 3rd Albi I 3rd Albi II UCI Junior World Cup 3rd Namur