“The French championships are a bit of holy week” and to go there, from June 26 to 29 at the Herbiers, the CC Périgueux Dordogne ensured the services of Louis Pijourlet. The newcomer is clearly “an engine element”, explains the Corentin Faure sports co -director.
The business card arises. “He is a record holder of the hour and champion of France for defending defending. Pijourlet The Grenoblois started the track “turning below” from the ring, he says, while his big brother was training.
A few years later, he was a European team champion in 2017, quadruple French points racing champion (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022), more recently double French team champion (2019, 2024) … He “managed” to also make a road record. Champion of France university in 2017, of the military world in 2021. No trouble exercising the two disciplines.
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“The results show that several disciplines can feed each other. In terms of quality, what I did, I could not have done it without one or the other. On the other hand, the cyclo-cross is not too much its thing.
With such a record, why come to a national division 3? The time to make choices, no doubt, at 29 years old. Louis Pijourlet has another life, that of YouTuber, creator of content, on cycling of course. “I live from that, largely. »»
His previous team, Team Bricquebec Cotentin, had engaged it in 2023. “I passed my state diploma there. I was alternating with them. I went there to join runners from the French track team ”but some left, so…
So Yohan Poirier, still a little sporting director, smelled the right blow. “It’s been a while since I know Yohan, that he had contacted me. “Louis Pijourlet wanted to get closer to the Southwest and in the region,” this is one of the only teams of National. I knew I was going to be welcomed properly. »»
Logistics
Bricquebec is in Normandy, it is far away, “logistics was complicated. When I got here, I just wanted to find pleasure a little. »»
Arrived “with little ambition”, finally, “it went well at the start of the season”. He has two podiums, in Mensignac for the Cuménal memory, and at the Grand Prix of Allevard-La Chapelle-du-Bard, in Isère. But for its new team, it all starts this Friday, May 2 in Bruch, in Lot-et-Garonne, for the time 47, the first round of the French Cup N3 (read the box).
A team time trial. The qualities of sparkle will be expected. In 2021, he won the 2nd stage of the Tour of Pyrenean Piedmont, a team time trial. The same year, he had finished in money on the military Worlds, a counter-clutch category. “Now, I want to have fun but at the front of the race,” said Pijourlet before departure in Mensignac. The Lot-et-Garonnais meeting seems ideal.
The race
“The common thread of our season is the French DN3 Cup,” announces Corentin Faure, the CCPD sports co -director. It has four stages, including the time 47. To go to the French championships, you have to be in the best N3 teams after two French Cup heats. After Lot-et-Garonne, the CCPD will go to the Valberg Grand Prix, in PACA, on June 1. “There, we will know,” continues Faure. We have worked the team time well. After this time, we will determine our strategy for the other three rounds. »»
The other dates: June 1, GP de Valberg; June 15, Tour d’Erdre and Gesvres in Loire-Atlantique; August 14, GP Christian-Fenioux in Indre.
The team for time 47: Théo Lauseille, Aurélien Pasquet, Louis Pijourlet, Thomas Carreau, Corentin Faure, Théo Laffineur.
