Loana Lecomte (born 8 August 1999) is a French
cross-country and mountain bike
cyclist
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.
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. After moving to the U23, she was once again on the podium at the World and European Championships in 2019.
In 2020, Lecomte raced, and won, her first
World Cup
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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
The 2020 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships was held in Leogang, Austria, from 5–11 October 2020. This was the 31st edition of the most prestigious mountain bike UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, event on the calendar, held annually since ...
in
Leogang
Leogang is a municipality in the district of Zell am See (district), Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg in Austria. It is a famous winter sports and summer mountain hiking resort.
Population
Sights
:Mining ...
and the U-23 race at the
European Mountain Bike Championships
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Editions
Winners
Cross-cou ...
in
Monteceneri
Monteceneri is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Lugano (district), Lugano in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It was created on 21 November 2010 through the merger of the municipalities o ...
.
She followed this up when on 16 May 2021 Lecomte won her second consecutive
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
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race after victories in
Albstadt
Albstadt () is the largest city in the district of Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the Swabian Jura mountains, about halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance.
Geography
Albstadt is spread across a variety of ...
and
Nové Město.
In 2022 Lecomte won gold at the
2022 European Mountain Bike Championships
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. In 2023, she finished runner-up to compatriot
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's World Tour team Visma–Lease a Bike Ferrand-Prévot has also competed in Mountain Biking and cyclo-cross during her career ...
at the
2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in the XCO. 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.
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.
After three years with
Canyon CLLCTV, Lecomte joined
BMC Factory Racing for the 2025 season.
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
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::3rd
Team relay
::3rd

Under-23 Cross-country
: 3rd

Cross-country,
UEC European Under-23 Championships
;2020
:
UCI World Championships
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::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
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: Swiss Bike Cup
::3rd
Leukerbad
Leukerbad (, Walliser German: ''Leiggerbad'', although locally known as ''Baadu'') is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
History
The story of Leukerbad dates back to the 4th century B.C. Graves ...
: French Cup
::3rd
Alpe d'Huez
L'Alpe d'Huez () is a ski resort in Southeastern France at . It is a mountain pasture in the central French Western Alps, in the Communes of France, commune of Huez, which is part of the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-R ...
;2021
: 1st

Cross-country,
National Championships
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: 1st

Overall
UCI XCO World Cup
::1st
Albstadt
Albstadt () is the largest city in the district of Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the Swabian Jura mountains, about halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance.
Geography
Albstadt is spread across a variety of ...
::1st
Nové Město
::1st
Leogang
Leogang is a municipality in the district of Zell am See (district), Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg in Austria. It is a famous winter sports and summer mountain hiking resort.
Population
Sights
:Mining ...
::1st
Les Gets
Les Gets (, ) is a commune in the department of Haute-Savoie, in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, southeastern France.
: French Cup
::1st
Lons-le-Saunier
Lons-le-Saunier () is a commune and capital of the Jura Department, eastern France.
Geography
The town is in the heart of the Revermont region, at the foot of the first plateau of the Jura massif. The Jura escarpment extends to the east a ...
: Internazionali d’Italia Series
::1st
Nalles
;2022
: 1st

Cross-country,
UEC European Championships
: 1st

Cross-country,
National Championships
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:
UCI XCO World Cup
::1st
Leogang
Leogang is a municipality in the district of Zell am See (district), Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg in Austria. It is a famous winter sports and summer mountain hiking resort.
Population
Sights
:Mining ...
::1st
Lenzerheide
Lenzerheide ( Romansh: ''Lai'') is a mountain resort in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland at the foot of the Parpaner Rothorn. The village lies in the municipality Vaz/Obervaz in the district of Albula, sub-district Alvaschein.
Th ...
::2nd
Val di Sole
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Sole Valley applies to the Vermiglio Valley, the east-west aligned valley of the river Noce and its sidevalleys, among which the Peio Valley that heads to the Ortler. The rest ...
::3rd
Petropolis
:
UCI XCC World Cup
::1st
Leogang
Leogang is a municipality in the district of Zell am See (district), Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg in Austria. It is a famous winter sports and summer mountain hiking resort.
Population
Sights
:Mining ...
::2nd
Val di Sole
The Sole Valley (, or , ) is a valley in Trentino, northern Italy.
Sole Valley applies to the Vermiglio Valley, the east-west aligned valley of the river Noce and its sidevalleys, among which the Peio Valley that heads to the Ortler. The rest ...
: French Cup
::1st
Le Bessat
::1st
Le Dévoluy
;2023
: 1st

Cross-country,
National Championships
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: 2nd Overall
UCI XCO World Cup
::1st
Lenzerheide
Lenzerheide ( Romansh: ''Lai'') is a mountain resort in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland at the foot of the Parpaner Rothorn. The village lies in the municipality Vaz/Obervaz in the district of Albula, sub-district Alvaschein.
Th ...
::1st
Mont-Sainte-Anne
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::2nd
Snowshoe
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::3rd
Nové Město
::4th
Vallnord
Vallnord () is a ski/snowboard resort in the Pyrenees mountains in the country of Andorra, close to the border with Spain at Tor, Pallars.
Overview
It encompasses the linked sectors of Pal and Arinsal (the sectors were linked by a cable car ...
: XCO French Cup
::1st
Marseille–Luminy
::1st
Lons-le-Saunier
Lons-le-Saunier () is a commune and capital of the Jura Department, eastern France.
Geography
The town is in the heart of the Revermont region, at the foot of the first plateau of the Jura massif. The Jura escarpment extends to the east a ...
:
UCI World Championships
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::2nd
Cross-country
::2nd
Team relay
:
UCI XCC World Cup
::2nd
Mont-Sainte-Anne
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: 5th Cross-country,
UEC European Championships
;2024
:
National Championships
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::1st

Cross-country
::1st

Short track
: XCO French Cup
::1st
Ussel
: XCC French Cup
::1st
Marseille
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:
UCI XCO World Cup
::1st
Crans-Montana
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::1st
Mont-Sainte-Anne
Mont-Sainte-Anne is a ski resort in eastern Canada, located in the town of Beaupré, Quebec, about northeast of Quebec City. The mountain is part of the Laurentian mountain chain and has a summit elevation of above sea level with a vertical ...
::4th
Val di Sole
The Sole Valley (, or , ) is a valley in Trentino, northern Italy.
Sole Valley applies to the Vermiglio Valley, the east-west aligned valley of the river Noce and its sidevalleys, among which the Peio Valley that heads to the Ortler. The rest ...
::4th
Lake Placid
:
UCI XCC World Cup
::2nd
Mont-Sainte-Anne
Mont-Sainte-Anne is a ski resort in eastern Canada, located in the town of Beaupré, Quebec, about northeast of Quebec City. The mountain is part of the Laurentian mountain chain and has a summit elevation of above sea level with a vertical ...
::4th
Crans-Montana
Crans-Montana is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Sierre (district), Sierre in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Valais, Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Chermignon, Mollens, Valais, ...
::4th
Lake Placid
: 5th Cross-country,
UCI World Championships
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References
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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