Élise Delzenne

Élise Delzenne (born 28 January 1989) is a French former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2013 and 2017 for the Bourgogne–Pro Dialog, and teams.

In 2004, she started racing in the main federation, the Fédération française de cyclisme, as a member of the club "Entente sportive des enfants de Gayant de Douai" (ESEG Douai).

She finished second in the departmental championship at Anor.

Lucien Cloet, regional selector at the time, recognized her potential and started a collaboration with her.

The next year, she won the silver medal at the French championship in the novice category of the points race, and finished eleventh in the French road race championship at Pont-du-Fossé.

In 2006, she was selected for the European Road Championships at Valkenburg.

In 2007, she joined a second club with the team Wasquehal juniors, where she was trained by Hervé Boussard.

In June the same year, she participated in the French track championship at Hyères, where she won the points race.

and finished fourth in the pursuit.

She was disappointed by this last result On the road, she won the national title at Mussidan.

A few days before, she also finished fourth in the national time trial.

After obtaining her baccalauréat in science, she decided to stop competing in order to study.

Two years later, she earned her Brevet de Technicien Supérieur (BTS) of engineering assistance in Armentières.

She then joined the textile engineer high school ENSAIT in 2009.

She followed a sandwich course there and worked for the company PGI Nordlys in Bailleul.

She nevertheless remained an athlete and ran the Route du Louvre marathon in 2010.

At the end of 2011, Élise Delzenne decided to return to competitive cycling.

She joined the club of la Madeleine, where she was trained by Lucien Cloet.

She obtained good results in Belgium during the seasons.

She also participated in the national championship at Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, almost at home, but had little success.

She crashed during the time trial to finish eighteenth.

On the road, she crashed again, this time 1 km from the finish and before the sprint for the third place.

On the track, she finished third in the national Omnium at Bordeaux and then fourth in the points race and fifth in the pursuit at Hyères, all for the national championship.

At the end of the year, she graduated and start working for a laundry in Soissons as a quality manager.

She was the winner of the 2013 French National Road Race Championships.

2013 was a good year for Delzenne.

She joined the UCI women's team Bourgogne–Pro Dialog.

As in the previous year, she finished third in the national Omnium which took place in Roubaix.

She had good results during the French cup at Pujols, in Ain or at Plumelec.

She also participated in Gent–Wevelgem and finished nineteenth.

At the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, a top-level international women's stage race, she finished seventh in the general classification.

She was selected by the national team for the Giro del Trentino.

The high point of the season was however her road national title at Lannilis.

There she won the sprint of the leading group.

In 2015, she finished second in individual pursuit and points race at the European Track Championships.

Delzenne grew up in Nomain, in the Nord of France, near the border with Belgium.

Her parents Philippe and Sylvie, née Dassonneville, are both touring cyclists.

When she was ten years old, Delzenne started cycling in the club of Orchies.

In particular, she took part in many Semaines fédérale internationale de cyclotourisme, a massive touring cycling event.

At the age of 12, she began to compete in the Union française des œuvres laïques d'éducation physique (UFOLEP).