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The 20-year-old Frenchwoman won her first senior world title on Saturday.
Unlike Mathilde Gros, crowned Friday, not many people expected Marie-Divine Kouamé. And yet, the twenty-year-old Habs won the world title in the 500m event, Saturday, October 15, at the national velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. This is the fourth medal for the French team at these World Track Cycling Championships, the second in gold.
Junior world champion in 2019 in the 500m, non-Olympic distance, Marie-Divine Kouamé confirmed in the senior category by beating the German Emma Hinze (+0”216) and the Chinese Yufanq Guo (+0”379). Second in qualifying on Saturday morning, she managed to do even better in the final by improving her own French record in the discipline (32”835).
She is the first Frenchwoman to triumph in the 500m since Félicia Ballanger won her fifth consecutive title in 1999.
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