Enduro World Championship: World Champion Isabeau Courdurier

Can we dream better of the title at home. At Loudenvielle (Hautes-Pyrénées), in the final round of this 2022 Enduro World Series season, Frenchman Isabeau Courdurier came to validate a great season by winning the overall classification of the Enduro Mountain Bike World Cup. She took second place on this French stage, behind another Blue, Morgane Charre. Mélanie Pugin completes the podium to score a gorgeous tricolor trio.

With this title, Isabeau Courdurier concludes in the best possible way a 2022 season that will have been marked by performances but also by more complex periods. At the beginning of July, the champ shared the adorable photo of her right foot pierced by Ghosn after she fell in the race. Fortunately, she was able to get back on the mountain bike after a month to finish her season. In third place overall last year, Isabeau Cordurier found the tops of the world for the second time after her title in 2019.

Among the men, France’s Alex Rodeau won in the Pyrenees ahead of Belgium’s Martin Maes and New Zealand’s Jacques Muir. There are also three other Frenchmen in the top ten: Yon Dinaud V, Louis Gandel IX and Nathan Sekendi X. Canadian Jesse Melamed won the world title of the season, finishing sixth this weekend.

Next season, Enduro will join other mountain biking disciplines under a joint organization, led by the UCI and Discovery Sports Group. Therefore, the calendar of all disciplines will be adapted to have common dates and places. The eighth stages of the Enduro World Series 2023 have already been announced, with two dates in France in particular: at Loudenvielle at the beginning of September and possibly at Les Gets a week later (location has not been officially confirmed).