Julie Bresset

Olympic champion in cross-country 2012

Julie Bresset ( born June 9, 1989 in Saint- Brieuc ) is a French mountain bike cyclist and Olympic champion in this sport.

Career

With nine years Bresset started with the sport of mountain biking, having previously operational dancing and gymnastics. Your first racing license they broke in 1998 as a member of the cycling club VTT Côtes d' Armor in Hillion. Later she joined the team Breiz Mountain and has been for this team in 2007 French MTB junior champion.

2008 Breiz Mountain was a UCI MTB team and Bresset took after her conversion to the age group U23 with this team to their first World Cup race in part.

In 2010, she joined the team BH- Suntour - Peisey Vallandry and was first French MTB champion in the elite category. This success could be repeated in 2011 and 2012.

In 2011 she was the overall winner of the World Cup series in cross-country and ended the year at number one of the UCI World Rankings in this discipline in the women 's elite.

At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, she won the gold medal at the cross -country race by a commanding start - to-finish victory.

Palmarčs

  • Olympic cross -country race
  • Mountain Bike World Championships 2011: Best and Cross Country U23
  • Mountain Bike World Cup 2011
  • Mountainbike European Championships 2011: Best and Cross Country U23
  • French Championship Cross Country Elite 2010, 2011, 2012
  • French Championship U23 Cross Country: 2010, 2011
  • French Championship Cross Country Junior Women: 2007
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