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Laurence Leboucher is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

professional cross-country mountain bike

Mountain bike racing

The Union Cycliste Internationale recognised the sport of mountain bike racing relatively late in 1990, when it sanctioned the world championships in Purgatory, Colorado. The first mountain biking world cup series took place in 1991. Its nine-race circuit covered two continents—Europe and North...

and cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...

racer. She is a three-time Olympian and two-time world cyclo-cross champion

Rainbow jersey

The Rainbow jersey is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a bicycle racing discipline. The jersey is predominantly white with five horizontal bands in the UCI colours around the chest. From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue; the same colours...

Major achievements

Important results for Laurence Leboucher are:

1998

1st (Gold Medal), World Mountain Bike Championships, Cross Country
1st, European Cyclo-cross Championships

2000

1st, European Cyclo-cross Championships
3rd, Round 2, Tissot-UCI Mountain Bike World Cup

2001

1st, European Cyclo-cross Championships

2002

1st (Gold Medal), World Cyclo-cross Championships

2003

3rd (Bronze Medal), World Cyclo-cross Championships

2004

1st (Gold Medal), World Cyclo-cross Championships

2005

2nd, French Cyclo-cross Championships

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