Loris Vergier
{{short description|French mountain biker}}
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| birth_date = {{bda|1996|5|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
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| currentteam = Trek Factory Racing
| discipline = Downhill mountain biking
| role = Rider
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| majorwins = 2014 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's mountain bike racing}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 2014 Hafjell | Downhill}}
{{MedalGold | 2024 Vallnord | Downhill}}
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| proteam1 = Lapierre Bikes
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| proteam2 = Specialized Bicycle Components
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| proteam3 = Santa Cruz Syndicate
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Loris Vergier (born 7 May 1996) is a French downhill mountain bike rider.{{Cite web|url=https://dirtmountainbike.com/news/loris-vergier-leaves-specialized-gravity-racing.html|title=Loris Vergier leaves Team Specialized Gravity|website=Dirt|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-13}} As a Junior, he won first place at the 2014 UCI Downhill Mountain World Championships.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-mountain-bike-world-championships-2014/junior-men-downhill/results/|title=UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2014: Junior men downhill Results|last=George|first=Sue|website=cyclingnews.com|date=7 September 2014|language=en|access-date=2020-02-13}}
Career
Vergier began racing for Lapierre Bikes as a junior in 2013. The following year he won both the Junior world cup overall as well as the Junior World Championships in Hafjell, Norway. In 2015, he moved up to the elite category and took third place at the UCI world cup round in Windham, U.S.
In 2016 the Lapierre team switched to specialized bikes. Vergier finished the UCI World Cup season in seventh place. His best result of the 2016 season was a second place in Leogang, Switzerland.
The following year, he left the team to join Greg Minnaar and Luca Shaw at the Santa Cruz Syndicate after Steve Peat announced his retirement from professional downhill racing and Josh Bryceland announced that he would no longer be racing for the syndicate.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinkbike.com/news/lorus-vergier-luca-shaw-join-santa-cruz-syndicate.html|title=Loris Vergier, Luca Shaw Join Santa Cruz Syndicate|date=10 January 2017}}
In 2021 Loris joined the Trek factory Racing team.
References
{{UCI Mountain Bike World Champions – Men's downhill}}
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Category:Downhill mountain bikers
Category:Sportspeople from Cagnes-sur-Mer
Category:Cyclists from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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