In 2020, she won the women's downhill race at the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships held in Leogang, Austria.

[6] Returning after the games, she started studying in the Federal Sporting School of Macolin and stopped ice hockey.

She won the first Swiss Cup in the discipline, joining the international field.

[6] In 2017, she began a new career in downhill, winning a bronze medal during the 2018 European Championships.

[7] Balanche has been in a relationship since 2017 with Emilie Siegenthaler, a fellow downhill mountain bike racer.