A new team faces the XCO 2023 stage: it is an international team with a large budget. The two main sponsors are 2 MTB giants such as Lapierre and Mavic.
11 years after his retirement from elite XC racing, Lapierre is returning to the top echelons of world XC mountain biking with the Lapierre-Mavic Unity team.
Less than two years before the next Olympic Games, Lapierre is proud to return to the forefront of the UCI XCO and XCC circuits and to present, together with another French brand Mavic, co-partner of this new project, a cohesive and well-balanced team and which represents with its athletes the world of men's and women's competitions.
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The women's team will be composed by the Danish Malene Degn, 8th at the last European and World Championships in 2022, by the English Annie Last, second in the XC Marathon in 2022, and by the young and promising French Isaure Medde, World Champion in the XC Eliminator in 2020 and runners-up in the French U23 championship in 2021 and 2022.
In the men's category, the team will be led by the experienced and inventive Danish rider Sebastian Fini Carstensen, seven-time Danish champion and two-time XCO European runner-up 2021/2022, the Swiss rider Thomas Litscher, bronze in the 2022 XCC World Championship, and the Norwegian athlete Erik Haegstad, 2021 XCO and XCC National Champion.
The mission of the Lapierre-Mavic Unity team will be to shine in the World Championships but also to be present in the next two Olympic cycles. The team will be directed by Céline Hutsebaut and her company VaillantTT. Céline Hutsebaut has many years of experience managing a UCI Elite International mountain bike team.
