As sports journalists, we occasionally get to chat with the inspiring individuals who push our sport and it’s requisite linchpin, traction, to seemingly unimaginable new limits. Interviewing 2019 EWS overall winner, Isabeau Courdurier was one esteemed occasion. She won every last round of the EWS in 2019 after taking second at each event in 2018 behind gravity legend Cécile Ravanel. Did someone say consistency?
The fierce Frenchwoman has been racing the EWS since its inception in 2013, after getting hooked on gravity during the French Enduro Series in 2012. Her sharp descending skills are backed by a lengthy XC race career from age 7 to 16.
For 2020 we’ll see Courdurier on a fresh team, backed by the French frame brand, Lapierre, alongside SRAM/Zipp, 100%, Hutchison, and several other sponsors that make up the Lapierre Zipp Collective. Training with talented teammates Adrien Daily, Chloé Gallean, and Nicolas Vouillo, the collective will surely be in contention for the overall EWS team title this summer.
In addition to her remarkable palmarès, Courdurier has proven to be an athlete that sponsors want to hire. She shows up to press camps to chat about testing procedures and ride feel and attends consumer events like Eurobike to chat with sponsors, fans, and friends. Now let’s learn a bit more about her.
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