Julie Bresset

Julie Bresset

To person
Date of birth	9th June 1989 (age 31)
nation	France
discipline	Mountain bike (cross-country)
To the team
Current team	BH-Suntour-Peisey Vallandry
function	driver
Most important successes
Olympic champion in cross-country 2012
Last updated: August 17, 2012

Julie Bresset (* 9. June 1989 in Saint-Brieuc ) is a French mountain bike - cyclist and Olympic champion in this sport (2012).

Career

Bresset began mountain biking at the age of nine, having previously done dancing and gymnastics . She got her first racing license in 1998 as a member of the VTT Côtes d'Armor cycling club in Hillion . She later switched to Equipe Breiz Mountain and became French MTB Junior Champion for this team in 2007.

In 2008 Breiz Mountain became a UCI MTB team and Bresset took part in her first World Cup races with this team after her transition to the U23 age group.

In 2010 she switched to the BH-Suntour-Peisey Vallandry team and became a French MTB champion in the elite category for the first time. She was able to repeat this success in 2011 and 2012.

In 2011 she was the overall winner of the World Cup series in cross-country and ended the year in first place in the UCI World Ranking in this discipline among the women's elite.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , she won the gold medal in the cross-country race with a sovereign start-to-finish victory.

At the Mountain Bike World Championships in 2012 and 2013 , she won the title in cross-country.

After Bressot was suspended in the 2017 season. In November 2017 she declared her return to competitive sport with the aim of participating in the 2020 Summer Olympics .

Sporting successes

• Mountain Bike World Championships 2011: Relay and Cross Country U23
• European Mountain Bike Championships 2011: Relay and Cross Country U23
• French Championship Cross Country Elite 2010, 2011, 2012
• French Championship Cross Country U23: 2010, 2011
• French Championship Cross Country Juniors: 2007

Web links

Commons : Julie Bresset  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Julie Bresset in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Parcours" on juliebresset.fr ( Memento of August 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on August 11, 2012
2. ↑ Breiz Mountain in the UCI database ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 11, 2012. 
3. ↑ velochrono.fr of July 16, 2011: Bresset au-dessus du lot
4. ↑ radsport-news.com from August 11, 2012: Bresset wins gold in the women's mountain bike
5. ↑ http://www.velovert.com/information/11944/julie-bresset-ne-courra-plus-en-2017
6. ↑ Julie Bresset reprend sa carrière en VTT