1. Anne-Caroline Chausson is best known for having won thirteen Union Cycliste Internationale senior mountain bike world championship rainbow jerseys, fourteen European mountain bike championships, and five consecutive Mountain Bike World Cup downhill series.
Anne-Caroline Chausson was nominated for the 2003 Laureus World Sports Awards Alternative Sportsperson of the Year.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Chausson competed for France in the inaugural women's BMX event, winning the gold medal.
Anne-Caroline Chausson asked to ride Elite, but got no permission.
Anne-Caroline Chausson has been regarded to be the world's greatest downhiller of all time.
In 1996, when she finished second behind American Missy Giove for the overall World Cup title, Anne-Caroline Chausson captured the World Champions title, defeating silver medallist American Leigh Donovan and Giove, who would claim the bronze.
In 1998, Anne-Caroline Chausson finally overcame Giove, with whom she would battle for nearly a decade, to win the World Cup title and subsequently won the world championship over World Cup bronze medallist Nolvenn LeCaer; she would repeat her double in 1999 and 2000, each time topping Giove for the World Cup title and Repo for the world championship.
Anne Caroline Anne-Caroline Chausson is recovering well from her second bout of cancer.
Anne-Caroline Chausson was chosen to represent France in the inaugural women's BMX event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, with Laetitia Le Corguille.
Anne-Caroline Chausson became the first ever Olympic gold medal winner in BMX racing after winning the one-round final, while Le Corguille took the silver medal after British rider Shanaze Reade clipped Chausson's rear wheel and fell in the final turn.