Maëva Squiban
.JPG) Squiban at the 2025 Tour de France Femmes | |||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Squibbers | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 March 2002 Brest, France | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | UAE Team ADQ | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Arkéa–B&B Hotels Women | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | UAE Team ADQ | ||||||||||||||
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Maëva Squiban (born 19 March 2002) is a French professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam UAE Team ADQ.[1] Squiban won two stages at the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, taking the super-combativity award.
Career
Born in Brest in the Brittany region of France, Squiban started cycling aged 13. After joining a cycling club, she won a silver medal at the 2019 French Junior National Time Trial Championships and won the 2019 Chrono des Nations Juniors.[2] In August 2020 she joined Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime as a stagiaire, and signed from 2021 a contract with the team.[2][3]
Squiban rode in the 2022 Tour de France Femmes.[4][5] Due to a crash in the second stage, she broke her sacrum and had to leave the Tour.[6][7] At the 2024 Tour de France Femmes she finished second on stage 7 and fifth overall in the young rider classification.[8][9] She took her first WorldTour race victory on stage 6 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes,[10] and her second on stage 7.[11] She was subsequently awarded the super-combativity award.[12] Following the event, Squiban was praised by the media, with Cycling Weekly calling her a "breakout star".[13][14][2]
Major results
- 2019
- 1st Chrono des Nations Juniors
- 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 6th Overall Omloop van Borsele
- 2020
- European Junior Road Championships
- 2nd
Time trial - 4th Road race
- 2nd
- 4th Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 2021
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 7th Grand Prix du Morbihan Féminin
- 2022
- 8th Alpes Grésivaudan Classic
- 2023
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta Extremadura Féminas
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2024
- 1st
Mountains classification, Tour de Normandie - 3rd Overall Tour de la Semois
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 4th Time trial
- 5th Road race
- 5th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 6th Trofeo Palma
- 7th Vuelta CV Feminas
- 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 9th Giro dell'Emilia
- 9th Chrono des Nations
- 2025
- Tour de France Femmes
- 1st Stages 6 & 7
Combativity award Stages 2, 6, 7 & Overall
- 2nd
Team relay, UCI Road World Championships - 3rd Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Extremadura
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 8th La Périgord Ladies
References
- ^ "UAE Team ADQ 2025". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- ^ a b c Rook, Anne-Marije (1 August 2025). "'One of the best climbers in the world' - who is Maeva Squiban, the sensation taking the Tour de France Femmes by storm?". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
- ^ "Maëva Squiban". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Discrète et ambitieuse, Maëva Squiban sur le Tour à 20 ans". directvelo.com (in French). 23 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "La cycliste Maëva Squiban au Tour de France féminin !". Le Telegramme (in French). 17 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Une fracture pour Maëva Squiban". directvelo.com (in French). 31 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Cyclisme. Tour de France femmes : victime d'une chute lundi, Maëva Squiban abandonne". Le Telegramme (in French). 26 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ Knöfler, Lukas (17 August 2024). "Tour de France Femmes: Justine Ghekiere wins at Le Grand-Bornand as Kasia Niewiadoma retains yellow". Cycling News. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ "Tour de France Femmes – 7 – Champagnole > Le Grand-Bornand". Tissot Timing. 17 August 2024. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ Rogers, Owen (31 July 2025). "Perfect descent earns Maeva Squiban breakout win at Tour de France Femmes". Domestique Cycling. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
- ^ "Maeva Squiban escapes to second stage win in a row at Tour de France Femmes as GC favourites finish together". Cycling Weekly. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "Tour de France Femmes Rankings Tissot Timing". Tissot Timing. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- ^ La Perna, Andréa (4 August 2025). "Le triomphe de Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt, l'audace de Maeva Squiban, un public de plus en plus nombreux … Ce qu'on a aimé et moins aimé du Tour de France femmes 2025" [The triumph of Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt, the audacity of Maeva Squiban, an ever-growing audience... What we liked and disliked about the 2025 Women's Tour de France]. Franceinfo (in French). Retrieved 5 August 2025.
- ^ Davidson, Robyn (4 August 2025). "Five things we learnt from the 2025 Tour de France Femmes". Cyclist. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
External links
- Maëva Squiban at UCI
- Maëva Squiban at ProCyclingStats
- Maëva Squiban at Cycling Quotient
- Maëva Squiban at InterSportStats
