Victor Koretzky (born 26 August 1994) is a French cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He won the junior cross-country world championship in

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. Competing with the French team he won the cross-country team relay world championship in

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, and

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

. Koretzky represented

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

cross-country mountain biking Cross-country (XC) cycling is a discipline of mountain biking. Cross-country cycling became an Olympic sport in 1996 and is the only form of mountain biking practiced at the Olympics. Terrain Cross-country cycling is defined by the terrain on ...

at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

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. His brother Clément Koretzky is also a cyclist.

Major results

Cyclo-cross

;2011–2012 : 3rd National Junior Championships ;2014–2015 : 3rd National Under-23 Championships ;2015–2016 : Coupe de France ::1st Flamanville ::2nd

Quelneuc Quelneuc () is a former commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Carentoir.National Under-23 Championships ;2016–2017 : Coupe de France ::3rd

Bagnoles de l'Orne Bagnoles-de-l'Orne is a former commune in the Orne department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2000, Tessé-la-Madeleine and Bagnoles-de-l'Orne merged becoming one town called Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, however, it adopted the former Insee code of Te ...

Mountain bike

;2011 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team relay ::1st Jersey rainbow

Junior cross-country ;2012 : UCI World Championships ::2nd Silver medal uci

Team relay ::2nd Silver medal uci

Junior cross-country ;2015 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team relay ::2nd Silver medal uci

Under-23 cross-country : 1st Roc d'Azur ;2016 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team relay ::2nd Silver medal uci

Under-23 cross-country : 1st MaillotFra

Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships ;2017 : Copa Catalana Internacional ::1st Banyoles ;2018 : Copa Catalana Internacional ::1st Banyoles ::1st

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

: 2nd Cross-country,

National Championships A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best team, indi ...

;2019 : 1st MaillotFra

Cross-country,

: French Cup ::2nd

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

::2nd Levens : Copa Catalana Internacional ::2nd Banyoles : 2nd Tokyo 2020 Test Event : UCI XCC World Cup ::3rd Les Gets ;2020 : Copa Catalana Internacional ::1st

::2nd Banyoles : UCI XCC World Cup ::2nd Nové Město ;2021 : 1st MaillotFra

Short track,

: UCI XCO World Cup ::1st Albstadt ::1st Lenzerheide : UCI XCC World Cup ::1st Snowshoe ::2nd Albstadt ::3rd Lenzerheide : French Cup ::1st

Lons-le-Saunier Lons-le-Saunier () is a Communes of France, commune and capital of the Jura (department), Jura Department, eastern France. Geography The town is in the heart of the Revermont region, at the foot of the first plateau of the Jura massif. The Jur ...

::1st

: Copa Catalana Internacional ::1st Banyoles ::1st

: Internazionali d’Italia Series ::2nd

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: 3rd

Cross-country Cross country or cross-country may refer to: Places * Cross Country, Baltimore, a neighborhood in northwest Baltimore, Maryland * Cross County Parkway, an east–west parkway in Westchester County, NY * Cross County Shopping Center, a mall in Yo ...

, UCI World Championships : 5th

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;2023 : UCI XCO World Cup ::1st Les Gets : UCI XCC World Cup ::1st Les Gets : UCI World Championships ::2nd Silver medal uci

Short track ::4th

Road

;2022 : 1st Stage 3

Alpes Isère Tour Alpes Isère Tour is a road bicycle race held annually in the French Department of Rhône-Alpes. The editions 1991–2004 were reserved to amateurs; since 2005, it is organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits ...

References

External links

* French male cyclists Cross-country mountain bikers Living people Olympic cyclists for France Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics 1994 births Sportspeople from Béziers Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Cyclo-cross cyclists Cyclists from Occitania (administrative region) French mountain bikers {{France-cycling-bio-1990s-stub