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Who is Marie-Divine Kouamé? World champion reaches new-found fame

Marie-Divine Kouamé has had a sensational season. On her first visit to the UCI Track World Championships, she captured a rainbow jersey in the 500m time trial at her home velodrome – where she knows every inch of the track – Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, southwest of Paris, France. 

As well as being the first French woman to win a world title in this distance since Felicia Ballanger in 1999, the young Parisian broke the national record twice along the way.

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