Isabelle Patissier

Isabelle Patissier, born 1 March 1967, is a French world champion rock climber who later became a rally driver. She won two Lead Climbing World Cups, in 1990 and 1991, and in 1988 became the first woman to climb a route of grade 8b (5.13d) with Sortileges at Cimai, the same year she became French champion, a title she went on to win three more times. She had won the first official French climbing competition in 1986, climbing barefoot at Vaulx-en-Velin. After retiring from climbing in 1995 she made her motorsport debut in the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles in 2000, first rode the Paris-Dakar rally in 2002 and in 2004 was the first woman world champion in the production category with Team Nissan Dessoude.