Loana Lecomte (born 8 August 1999) is a French cross-country and mountain bike cyclist.
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Born | Annecy, France | 8 August 1999|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Mountain bike | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Cross-country | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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2014–2017 | Annecy Cyclisme Compétition | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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2017–2019 | Look Beaumes de Venise | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | Massi Bikes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2022– | Canyon CLLCTV XCO Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
editIn her first season as a junior in 2016, Lecomte became French champion and won several races of the Coupe de France de VTT. In her second season as a junior, she won silver in cross country at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and the UEC Mountain Bike European Championships.[1] After moving to the U23, she was once again on the podium at the World and European Championships in 2019.[2] In 2020, Lecomte raced, and won, her first World Cup race as an elite and then went on to claim world and European championship titles with victory in the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships – Team relay at the 2020 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Leogang and the U-23 race at the European Mountain Bike Championships in Monteceneri.[3][4]
She followed this up when on 16 May 2021 Lecomte won her second consecutive UCI Mountain Bike World Cup race after victories in Albstadt and Nové Město.[5][6]
In 2022 Lecomte won gold at the 2022 European Mountain Bike Championships.[7] In 2023, she finished runner-up to compatriot Pauline Ferrand-Prévot at the 2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in the XCO.[8] At the championships she was also part of the French team that won silver in the relay event, alongside Jordan Sarrou, Line Burquier, Anais Moulin, Adrian Boichis and Julien Hémon.[9]
Lecomte competed in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, where she suffered an injury during the Mountain Bike Cross Country final and was unable to finish the race.
Major results
edit- 2016
- 1st
Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2017
- 1st
Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2nd
Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
- 2nd
Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships
- 2019
- 1st
Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- UCI World Championships
- 3rd
Team relay
- 3rd
Under-23 Cross-country
- 3rd
- 3rd
Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2020
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Team relay
- 1st
Under-23 Cross-country
- 1st
- UEC European Championships
- 1st
Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Nové Město I
- 3rd Nové Město II
- 2nd Cross-country, National Championships
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 3rd Leukerbad
- French Cup
- 3rd Alpe d'Huez
- 2021
- 1st
Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st
Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Albstadt
- 1st Nové Město
- 1st Leogang
- 1st Les Gets
- French Cup
- 1st Lons-le-Saunier
- Internazionali d’Italia Series
- 1st Nalles
- 2022
- 1st
Cross-country, UEC European Championships
- 1st
Cross-country, National Championships
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Leogang
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 2nd Val di Sole
- 3rd Petropolis
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Leogang
- 2nd Val di Sole
- French Cup
- 1st Le Bessat
- 1st Le Dévoluy
- 2023
- 1st
Cross-country, National Championships
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 2nd Snowshoe
- 3rd Nové Město
- 4th Vallnord
- XCO French Cup
- 1st Marseille–Luminy
- 1st Lons-le-Saunier
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd
Cross-country
- 2nd
Team relay
- 2nd
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 5th Cross-country, UEC European Championships
- 2024
- National Championships
- XCO French Cup
- 1st Ussel
- XCC French Cup
- 1st Marseille
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Crans-Montana
- 4th Val di Sole
References
edit- ^ "Loana Lecomte". MTBCrossCountry.com.
- ^ "rad-net.de – Content". www.rad-net.de.
- ^ "Meet Loana Lecomte, 2020's breakout mountain biker of the year". 25 November 2020.
- ^ "rad-net.de – Content". www.rad-net.de.
- ^ "Loana Lecomte solos away to World Cup win". Canadian Cycling Magazine. 9 May 2021.
- ^ "Hayley Batten finishes second behind Loana Lecomte in Nové Město World Cup". 16 May 2021.
- ^ Poggi, Alessandro. "Loana Lecomte triumphs in rain-affected race to claim first senior European MTB crown". Olympics.com. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ Simonovich, Ryan (12 August 2023). "World MTB Championships: Ferrand-Prévot does the double again in a French show of force". Escape Collective. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ "Cycling. MTB – Worlds – France in silver on the mixed relay, Switzerland in gold". euro.dayfr.com. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2023.