Vice-champion of French cadet cyclo-cross, how far will Lana Le Guilloux go?

The general public discovered it in August 2023 under the sun of Plédran, at the top of the famous Magenta coast. Youngest in the French junior road championships, Lana Le Guilloux, who weighed less than 35 kilos at the time, caused a sensation by winning the title against opponents, some of whom were three years older. A small feat that only Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, sorry, had achieved before her.

Already winner of the French Cyclo-cross Trophy (in her age category), six months earlier, the young Baldivian didn’t stop there: on the asphalt (her preference) or in the undergrowth, It’s simple, it wins almost everything in the region and continues to shine at the national level.

Fan of Demi Vollering, she dreams of the Tour de France

Champion of Brittany on the road last summer, almost undefeated on Breton soil this winter, the OC Locminé licensee, 1st year cadet, took 4th place in the general ranking of the U17 French Cyclo-cross Cup and therefore flirted with a second blue-white-red jersey at Pontchâteau.

“I am both happy and a little disappointed,” she confided, with a smile, in the interview area. On the last stairs, I had difficulty re-clipping (his shoe), that’s where I lost the race,” added the 3rd year student at Baud college, returning alone like a grown-up on the Aquitaine Lucie Elizalde (the future champion) at the start of the last lap of the circuit.

The silver medal for Lana Le Guilloux (who will be 15 in March) is not a surprise. The Breton nugget, who came to cycling because she was “a little tired of picking up her brother’s (Evan) skittles” at the cycling school, is part of the French Federation’s “next generation” program where the greatest hopes of the country. “The objective is also not to make him skip any steps. She has enormous talent but she must go at her own pace,” explains Coralie Séro, who trains her. Lana Le Guilloux knows where she wants to go: a fan of the Dutch Demi Vollering and Wout Van Aert, she dreams of turning professional and competing in the Tour de France Femmes in the years to come.