Loana Lecomte
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| Born | 8 August 1999 Annecy, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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Loana Lecomte (born 8 August 1999) is a French cross-country and mountain bike cyclist.
Career
[edit]In 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
Under-23 Cross-country - 2nd Team relay
- 1st
- 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
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Short track
- 1st
- XCO French Cup
- 1st Ussel
- XCC French Cup
- 1st Marseille
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Crans-Montana
- 4th Val di Sole
- 5th Cross-country, UCI World Championships
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.
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Annecy
- Cyclists from Haute-Savoie
- French female cyclists
- French mountain bikers
- UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (women)
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for France
- Cyclists at the 2023 European Games
- European Games competitors for France
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century French sportswomen