Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Canyon-SRAM
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2020 - Canyon-SRAM
- 2019 - Canyon-SRAM
- 2018 - Canyon-SRAM Racing
- 2017 - Canyon SRAM Racing
- 2016 - Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
- 2015 - Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
- 2014 - Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
- 2013 - Giant Pro XC Team
- 2012 - Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team
- 2012 - Rabobank Giant Offroad Team
- 2011 - Lapierre International
- 2009 - Team Scott Valloire Galibier
Biography:
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot was born on February 10, 1992, in Reims, France. She is a French multi-discipline professional cyclist competing in mountain biking, road cycling, cyclocross and gravel cycling who races for Ineos Grenadiers off-road cycling team.
She made history in the 2014-2015 season at the age of 23, when she became the first cyclist to simultaneously hold world titles in all three disciplines, winning the elite women's road race world title in 2014 Ponferrada, the XCO cross-country world title in 2015 in Vallnord, and the cyclo-cross world title in 2015 in Tabor.
She has won a total of nine individual elite world titles during her career, that also includes four XCO cross-country titles (2015, 2019, 2020 and 2022), two XCM marathon titles (2019 and 2022), and one XCC short track title (2022). She was part of the France national team that won world titles in the team relays in 2014, 2015 and 2016, to add to her sparkling career.
Ferrand-Prévot currently holds four simultaneous world titles in the elite women's XCC short track, XCO cross-country, XCM marathon and Gravel.
She began her professional career racing on the road for Rabobank from 2012 through 2016 before joining Canyon-SRAM from 2017 through the end of 2020. However, she hasn't raced on the road, outside of the French Road Championships, since 2018. She was diagnosed with double iliac artery endofibrosis in November 2018 and underwent two separate surgeries in 2019 and 2020, from which she has fully recovered.
She has a primary focus on off-road racing and a goal of winning the gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Key Results
1st Road Race World Champion 2014
1st Cyclo-Cross World Champion 2015
1st Cross-Country World Champion 2015, 2019, 2020, 2022
1st Marathon World Champion 2019, 2022
1st Short Track World Champion 2022
1st Team Relay World Champion 2014, 2015, 2016
1st Gravel World Champion 2022
1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine 2014
1st Emakumeen Euskal Bira 2014
1st French National Road Race Champion 2014-15
1st French National Time Trial Champion 2012–2014
1st French National Cyclo-cross Champion 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2017-2018
1st French National Cross-country Champion 2014-16, 2019
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