# Loana Lecomte

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. 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 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.
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.
In 2022 Lecomte won gold at the 2022 European Mountain Bike Championships. In 2023, she finished runner-up to compatriot Pauline Ferrand-Prévot 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
       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
       1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
       4th Val di Sole
       4th Lake Placid
    UCI XCC World Cup
       2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
       4th Crans-Montana
       4th Lake Placid
    5th Cross-country, UCI World Championships