Rollerski: success (almost) on home soil for Mathis Desloges
On Sunday afternoon, it was the senior men who rounded off the copious programme of the 2025 French Rollerski Championships in Autrans (Isère). Over a classic 33.3km mass-start, the show was on, with a vengeful Mathis Desloges in the lead role.
Having struggled on Saturday in the free sprint, where he wasn’t even able to take part in the final stages, he got his revenge in a big way in this long distance race, contested over a 6.6km circuit to be covered five times.
Initially in a breakaway with Victor Lovera, who then broke away to finish 26th, the Villardien won solo after 1 h 18 min 27 sec 4 of racing to claim a fine national gold medal, his third in a row in the distance at the French summer championships.
“On the first lap, after 3 or 4 kilometres, I said to myself: ‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained’, and I tried. We managed to get away with Victor [Lovera] and of course we got along because we train together all year round,” the winner told Nordic Magazine afterwards. I believed in it right to the end and it worked, just a little, but it worked.
Théo Schely and Jules Chappaz take the other medals
Less than 10 seconds behind, Théo Schely and Jules Chappaz took the other two medals, just ahead of Thomas Joly (Team Ramudden).
Richard Jouve was fifth, while Simon Vuillet (Team Slavia Pojistovna Robinson Trentino), Luc Primet (TNE Coste – Fromageries Marcel Petite), Victor Cullet Calderini, Sabin Coupat (TNE Coste – Fromageries Marcel Petite) and Rémi Bourdin rounded out the top 10.
Eleventh overall, Isaïe Taxil from the Franc-Comtois region was crowned French U23 champion in the speciality ahead of Ivan Essonnier, fifteenth, and Milhan Laissus, seventeenth.
Elsewhere, Hugo Lapalus was thirteenth, Jérémy Royer (Team Eksjöhus) fourteenth, Gaspard Rousset (i3 Ski Team) sixteenth, Clément Parisse nineteenth and Jules Lapierre twentieth.
Full results
Resultat_Mass-Start_Sen_Hommes_05-10-20251-1- 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
- Autrans: Anja Vittoz becomes French U18 mass-start classic champion, Lison Brouart and Lou Rives win medals
- French Championships in Autrans: Victor Lafrasse wins the U18 mass-start classic, Paul Rousset Vachon and Basile Grosleziat follow suit
- Autrans: Valentin Berna from the Vosges is the new French U20 mass-start classic champion
- French Championships in Autrans: Annette Coupat, golden in the U20 mass-start classic, finishing ahead of Agathe Margreither, signs the double
- Autrans: Norway’s Magni Smedaas wins the mass-start classic, Léonie Perry crowned French champion ahead of Hanna Fine
