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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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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]
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]
Balanche has been in a relationship since 2017 with Emilie Siegenthaler, a fellow downhill mountain bike racer. [8]
Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH)
European Mountain Bike Championships (DH)
UCI Mountain Bike World Championships (DH) 
Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH) UCI Mountain Bike World Championships (DH) Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH) Swiss National Mountain Bike Championships (DH)
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