Julie Bresset
From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (September 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
 Julie Bresset in 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 9 June 1989 Saint-Brieuc, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain Bike (Cross Country) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Julie Bresset (born 9 June 1989) is a French mountain bike cyclist, who won the cross-country mountain bike race in the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
She was the overall winner of the World Cup mountain bike cross-country series in 2011 and finished top of women's elite cross-country ranking at the end of 2011.[3]
She won the French national cross-country mountain bike championships in 2010, 2011 and 2012.[4]
At her first Olympics in 2012, she took the lead, which she never relinquished, from the second lap. By the third lap, the gap between her and the chasing group was already twenty seconds. This was her first international individual title at the senior level.[5][6][7] She was on the start list of 2018 Cross Country European Championships and finished 11. .[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Women's Cross-country". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 12 August 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "Julie Bresset". Cycling archives. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "Ranking - Mountain Bike 2011". Union Cycliste Internationale. 31 December 2011. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Ch. France VTT F: Bresset au-dessus du lot" (in French). velochrono.fr. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "London Olympics: Bresset shows opponents a clean pair of heels". Union Cycliste Internationale. 11 August 2012. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "France's Julie Bresset wins Olympic gold in mountain biking; Georgia Gould of US takes bronze". Associated Press. 11 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.[dead link]
- ^ "Ploeuc-sur-Lié. Julie Bresset offre un café à sa mère". 21 March 2014.
- ^ "European Championships Results - CROSS-COUNTRY WOMEN". UEC. Archived from the original on 7 August 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
External links
[edit]
Media related to Julie Bresset at Wikimedia Commons
|
   | This biographical article related to a French cycling person born in the 1980s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a cycling Olympic medalist of France is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |