Loana Lecomte

Loana Lecomte

Lecomte in 2019
Personal information
Born	(1999-08-08) 8 August 1999 (age 25) Annecy, France
Team information
Discipline	Mountain bike
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Amateur team
2014–2017	Annecy Cyclisme Compétition
Professional teams
2017–2019	Look Beaumes de Venise
2019–2021	Massi Bikes
2022–	Canyon CLLCTV XCO Team
Major wins
Mountain bike European XC Championships (2022) National XC Championships (2021–2024) XC World Cup (2021) 10 individual wins (2020–2024)
Medal record Representing  France Women's mountain bike racing World Championships 2020 Leogang Under-23 Cross-country 2020 Leogang Team relay 2024 Vallnord Team relay European Championships 2022 Munich Cross-country

Loana Lecomte (born 8 August 1999) is a French cross-country and mountain bike cyclist.

Career

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

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 Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships

2020

UCI World Championships

1st Team relay

1st Under-23 Cross-country

UEC European Championships

1st Under-23 Cross-country

2nd Team relay

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

UCI XCC World Cup

2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne

5th Cross-country, UEC European Championships

2024

National Championships

1st Cross-country

1st Short track

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

1. "Loana Lecomte". MTBCrossCountry.com.
2. "rad-net.de – Content". www.rad-net.de.
3. "Meet Loana Lecomte, 2020's breakout mountain biker of the year". 25 November 2020.
4. "rad-net.de – Content". www.rad-net.de.
5. "Loana Lecomte solos away to World Cup win". Canadian Cycling Magazine. 9 May 2021.
6. "Hayley Batten finishes second behind Loana Lecomte in Nové Město World Cup". 16 May 2021.
7. Poggi, Alessandro. "Loana Lecomte triumphs in rain-affected race to claim first senior European MTB crown". Olympics.com. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
8. 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.
9. "Cycling. MTB – Worlds – France in silver on the mixed relay, Switzerland in gold". euro.dayfr.com. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2023.