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Camille Balanche (born 1 March 1990) is a Swiss cyclist. In 2020, she won the women's downhill race at the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships held in Leogang, Austria.[1][2][3][4][5] She is the first Swiss rider to win a Downhill world title.[1]
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| Born | 1 March 1990 Le Locle, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Mountain bike racing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Downhill | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Daughter of Gérald Balanche and Nacira Larfi Balanche, Camille Balanche was born in Le Locle and grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds.[6] At the age of 12, she began her sporting career in ice hockey at the La Chaux-de-Fonds Hockey Club, before joining Montréal once she could no longer play in men's teams. In 2010, she was selected to play for Switzerland in the Olympic Games. [6]
Returning after the games, she started studying in the Federal Sporting School of Macolin and stopped ice hockey. In 2014, beside of her studies, she discovered cycling and began a career in enduro. She won the first Swiss Cup in the discipline, joining the international field.[6]
In 2017, she began a new career in downhill, winning a bronze medal during the 2018 European Championships. She became European downhill champion the following year.[6]
In 2020, she became downhill world champion.[7]
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Balanche has been in a relationship since 2017 with Emilie Siegenthaler, a fellow downhill mountain bike racer. [8]
- 2018
- 3rd
Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH) - 2019
- 1st
European Mountain Bike Championships (DH) - UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (DH)
- 3rd Round 6 (Val di Sole, Italy)
- 2020
- 1st
UCI Mountain Bike World Championships (DH) - 1st
Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH) - 2021
- 3rd UCI Mountain Bike World Championships (DH)
- 1st Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH)
- UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (DH)
- 1st Round 1 (Leogang, Austria)
- 3rd Round 2 (Les Gets, France)
- 3rd Round 3 (Maribor, Slovenia)
- 2nd Round 5 (Snowshoe, United States)
- 3rd Round 6 (Snowshoe, United States)
- 2022
- 1st Overall UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (DH)
- 1st Round 1 (Lourdes, France)
- 2nd Round 2 (Fort William, Scotland)
- 1st Round 3 (Leogang, Austria)
- 2nd Round 4 (Lenzerheide, Switzerland)
- 3rd Round 5 (Vallnord, Andorra)
- 1st Round 6 (Snowshoe, United States)
- 1st Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH)
- 2023
- UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (DH)
- 2nd Round 1 (Lenzerheide, Switzerland)
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