Koppenberg 's international cyclo-cross

Laurence is a world champion titular and she perfectly honored her shirt rainbow during the international cyclo-cross of Koppenberg to Oudenaarde in Belgium on November 1st of this year. Laurence Leboucher took away the solo running by dominating of big specialists as the Belgian Hilde Quintens and the Dutchwoman Marianna Vos.

Grand Prix of Germany

The World cup 2002/2003 starts on Sunday with Grand Prix of Germany in Frankfort. Laurence Leboucher is favourite. The season 2002/2003 of cyclo-cross gets to the heart of the subject, with the organization of the first one of five stages of the World cup.

 The most beautiful three-coloured performances are to be looked at the feminine, the juniors and the espoirs. The world champion Laurence Leboucher ends on the podium behind the Dutchwoman Daphny Van Den Brand and the German Hanka Kupfernagel while Jean Beraud and Steve Chainel are classified respectively 5th and 6th to least than 23 years. At the juniors, Roman Villa continues to shine because the champion of France takes him in front of the Dutchman Lars Boom and his fellow countryman Jonathan Hivert.    

Laurence Leboucher the second in Belgium

The World cup is back for a stage how much expected: Grand Prix of Belgium. Later them stifling dominion on the 1st stage, in Frankfort in Germany, the Belgians will fight tomorrow at home. The Belgian stage of the World cup quarrels for the second time to Kalmthout, near Antwerp, after a first organization made a success in 1999. The circuit proposed to the athletes is not the most difficult of the season. Four artificial hills stress the difficulty of the route, 2750 metres long were distributed in the following way: 1585 metres of forest, 760 metres of asphalt and 405 metres of prairie. Two material posts are given to cyclo-crosswomen.

In dreadful conditions (rain, wind and very fat ground), Sarthoise Laurence Leboucher was beat by Van der Biet, the champion of Netherlands.

Before last stage World cup
Laurence Leboucher third

Sarthoise Laurence Leboucher took the 3rd place of the front the last sleeve of the World cup, yesterday to Wetzikon, in Switzerland(Swiss). The running was very competed and it is the Dutchwoman Daphny Van Den Brand who imposed upon the sprint in front of the German Hanka Kupfernagel.

 Classification Feminines:

1. Daphny van den Brand (PBS)
2. Hanka Kupfernagel (DEUTCH) s.t.
3. Laurence Leboucher (FRA) s.t.
4. Annabella Stropparo (ITA) 19 sec.
5. Corine Dorland (PBS) at 51 sec.
6. Debby Mansveld (PBS) s.t.
7. Birgit Hollmann (ALL) s.t.
8. Maria Paola Turcutto (ITA) at 1'15"
9. Hilde Quintens (BEL) at 1'27"
10. Maryline Salvetat (FRA) at 1'42"

The rain would have been able to waste the holiday but fortunately, nothing such happened. Ceaseless all night long, the water had transformed the circuit into really paddling pool but the powerful wind is in charge of reclaiming the diluted zones and of allowing in championships of feminine and male world to take place in relatively common conditions. The riding of the Women includes five tours of the circuit of Monopoli, that is 13,5 km. Very fast, two competitors get loose: the Dutchwoman Daphny Van Den Brand and the German Hanka Kupfernagel. Behind, the pursuit is organized by the outgoing world champion Laurence Leboucher and by the Italian Annabella Stropparo.

Both duets are in confrontation with distance during all the riding. World champion's title is going to deceive between Van Den Brand and Kupfernagel. Both young ladies know it and place banderilles alternately. Both undergo phases of "good" and of "less indeed". Finally, they reach together in the final straight, where the sprint takes care to decide between them. At 24 years old, Daphny Van Den Brand has more resources and cuts the line triumphantly several metres in front of Hanka Kupfernagel. The Frenchwoman Laurence Leboucher gets rid of Stropparo in the last kilometres to end 3rd, 16 seconds later. Anja Nobus looks like first Belgian representative: she is 12th.

Classification :

1. Daphny Van Den Brand (PBS) in 38'24" (21,6 km/h)
2. Hanka Kupfernagel (ALL) at 2 sec.
3. Laurence Leboucher (FRA) at 16 sec.
4. Annabella Stropparo (ITA) at 31 sec.
5. Mette Andersen (DAN) at 1'05"
6. Maria-Paola Turcutto (ITA) at 1'10"
7. Marilyne Salvetat (FRA) at 1'19"

Daphny den Brand wins the last stage

Neverlander Van den Brand continued her dominion by taking away finale, she leads in front of her fellow countryman Corinne Dorland and the Belgian Anja Nobus. In the final classification, the world champion takes it easily. 

Women Ranking :

1. Daphny Van den Brand (PBS) in 35'36"
2. Corinne Dorland (PBS) s.t.
3. Anja Nobus (BEL) at 2 sec.
4. Hilde Quintens (BEL) at 7 sec.
5. Reza Hormes-Ravenstein (PBS) at 37 sec.
6. Marianne Vos (PBS) s.t.
7. Victoria Wilkinson (GBR) s.t.
8. Loes Sels (BEL) at 1'35"
9. Bernardine (PBS) at 1'46"
10. Nicole Leyten (PBS) at 2'36"

Finale Women Classification :

1. Daphny van den Brand (PBS) 360 pts
2. Hilde Quintens (BEL) 234
3. Anja Nobus (BEL) 207
4. Corine Dorland (PBS) 199
5. Laurence Leboucher (FRA) 140
6. Nicole Leyten-De Bie (BEL) 180
7. Reza Hormes-Ravenstein (PBS) 133
8. Marianne Vos (PBS) 105
9. Hanka Kupfernagel (ALL) 100
10. Debby Mansveld (PBS) 92