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. In September 2025, she won a gold medal with the French team at the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, alongside Lise Revol, Joshua Dubau, Olivia Onesti, Adrien Boichis, and Lucas Teste, in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Major results

2016 1st Cross-country, National Junior Championships 2017 1st Cross-country, National Junior Championships

2019 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships UCI World Championships

2020 UCI World Championships 1st Team relay 1st Under-23 Cross-country UEC European Championships 1st Under-23 Cross-country

1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships 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

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