Rollerskiing: Vincent Vittoz’s daughter becomes French U18 champion
Late on Sunday morning, it was the turn of the U18 women to contest their classic mass-start of the French Rollerski Championships in Autrans (Isère). In a 13.3km race that was indecisive for a long time, the decision was made in the final hectometres, when Méaudra’s Anja Vittoz broke away from the group to win.
The daughter of a certain Vincent Vittoz, the only French cross-country skiing world champion, won the gold medal 2.6 seconds ahead of Montblanc’s Lison Brouart, in silver, and 3.0 seconds ahead of Pontissalienne Lou Rives, in bronze.
“It’s really cool! I wasn’t really expecting it. I thought they’d attacked, so I took off and then I just had to hold on,” she told Nordic Magazine afterwards. I don’t like pushing, but I felt really good!
Haut-Alpine Loane Couloumy, Haut-Savoyard Louna Remillon, Dauphiné Chloé Vermeulen, Doubiste Célestine Droz-Vincent, Franc-Comtoise Héloïse Hauck, Savoyard Clémence Coutaz and Vosgienne Louna Gillmann rounded off the day’s top 10.
Full results
Resultat_Mass-Start_U18_Dames_05-10-20251- A skate sprint followed by a classic mass-start: the full programme for the French summer cross-country skiing championships and the U15 national summer challenge in Autrans.
- Challenge national U15 d’Autrans: Eva Belkhir-Caliste and Louan Perl Huin win the free sprint qualifier
- Autrans: Elsa Marvillet and Nino Rimailho win the U16 sprint skate qualifying round of the French championships
- French Championships in Autrans: Guillemette Baisle and Paul Rousset Vachon the fastest U18 sprint skating qualifiers
- Autrans U15 National Challenge: final phases cancelled after injury to a competitor, qualifying times taken into account
- Autrans: Giulia Lathuraz and Elio Faivre crowned French U16 freestyle sprint champions
- French Championships in Autrans: Guillemette Baisle and Paul Rousset Vachon win gold in the U18 free sprint
- Autrans: Julie Pierrel first in the sprint skate qualifier for the French championships, Chloé Missillier ahead in the U20s
- French Championships in Autrans: Sabin Coupat wins the free sprint qualification, Gaspard Cottaz first U20
- French Championships in Autrans: U20 sprint skate gold medals for Annette Coupat and Luigi Biancolli
- Autrans: Liv Coupat French freestyle sprint champion ahead of Justine Gaillard and Daphné Patois
- French Championships: Jules Chappaz goes gold in the Autrans sprint skating event, Rémi Bourdin and Sabin Coupat on the podium
- “It was a good day’s work”: Jules Chappaz reflects on his title in the sprint skate at the French championships in Autrans
- “I didn’t expect to be at this level at all”: back from Covid, Liv Coupat won the skateboard sprint at the French championships in Autrans.
- “Summer’s work pays off for the whole family”: two gold medals and a bronze… A look back at the Coupat siblings’ crazy day at the French Championships in Autrans.
- Autrans: Anaë Remillon dominates the mass-start classic of the U15 National Challenge
- Challenge national U15 d’Autrans: Savoyard Jules Boiron wins the mass-start classic ahead of Taïg Baffert and Valentin Gaillard
- Autrans: Eliott Maury crowned French U16 mass-start classic champion
- French Championships in Autrans: gold in the U16 mass start classic for Manon Pradel Mayer from Auvergne
