Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Visma-Lease a Bike Women
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2025 - Visma-Lease a Bike Women
- 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 15 elite world titles during her career, that also includes five XCO cross-country titles (2015, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023), two XCM marathon titles (2019 and 2022), and two XCC short track titles (2022 and 2023). 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 held four simultaneous world titles in the elite women's XCC short track, XCO cross-country, XCM marathon and Gravel in 2022-2023 seasons.
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 was focused on off-road racing with a goal of winning the gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, an objective that she achieved at the Elancourt Hill facility just outside of Paris.
She later announced that she would turn her attention back to road racing having signed a contract with Visma-Lease a Bike and a focus on the Tour de France Femmes.
Key Results
1st Cross-Country Olympics Paris 2024
1st Road Race World Champion 2014
1st Cyclo-Cross World Champion 2015
1st Cross-Country World Champion 2015, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
1st Marathon World Champion 2019, 2022
1st Short Track World Champion 2022, 2023
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
Related Articles
‘Whatever happens, the story will be beautiful’ – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot says goodbye to Olympic Games at home
News ‘These will be my last Games, I didn't want to regret anything’ rider tells L’Equipe of laser focus on training ahead of cross country MTB race
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to leave Ineos for Visma-Lease a Bike as she eyes road return
News Multi-discipline star reportedly set to move on after two years as Ineos Grenadiers' only women's rider
'Last chance to be Olympic champion' - Pauline Ferrand-Prevot to end MTB career after 2024
News Multi-discipline star re-opens door for a return to the road with final big MTB goal at her home Paris Olympics
UCI MTB World Cup Nove Město: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot wins women's elite race with long-rage solo attack
Results World Champion's one-minute winning margin sets her as a big Olympic favourite
'I would like to ride the Tour de France' - Ferrand-Prévot considers road racing return
News 'Why not get back to road racing next year, or the year after?' says reigning MTB world champion focused on 2024 Olympics
Demi Vollering and Jonas Vingegaard win 2023 Velo d'Or awards
News Lotte Kopecky and Mathieu van der Poel recognised in new category as best Classics riders
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to miss Gravel Worlds title defence
News French rider says "doctor's orders more recovery time"
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