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 - Rabobank Giant Offroad Team
- 2012 - Stichting Rabo Women Cycling 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
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot celebrates Tour de France Femmes victory and reveals final goals for 2025
News Road World Championships in Rwanda not on the plan but European Championships in France became the last goal of the season
'Listening to Tadej's advice was inspiring' – Tour de France winners Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Tadej Pogačar link up for post-victory ride
News The two 2025 yellow jersey winners ride together in Monaco
'We would never have hoped for this' – French interest in women’s cycling booms with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot’s Tour de France Femmes triumph
News Crowds pack the roads and TV viewing figures soar for first French Tour winner since 1990
This Tour de France Femmes was exactly what women's cycling needed – Analysis
Suspense, field depth and local heroes alongside broader global interest not only made a compelling edition, but paint a rosy picture of what's in store for the future
Breakthrough riders, history makers, and a home winner – Tour de France Femmes 2025 conclusions
Cyclingnews breaks down all the big talking points from a thrilling edition of the women's Tour
'The biggest priority is to be healthy' - Demi Vollering, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot respond to questions about rider weight at the Tour de France Femmes
News 'Just believe that if you have the power and that you train hard, that you can make it' former Tour winner on balancing health, training and racing
'I still have plenty of races I didn't win yet' – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot's road racing ambitions won't end with Tour de France Femmes triumph
News France's first Tour champion since the 1980s eyes bids for Tour of Flanders and Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Tour de France Femmes stage 8 GC analysis – Col de la Madeleine queen stage reveals the queen of the Tour
Analysis Pauline Ferrand-Prévot's stunning solo sees her secure in yellow ahead of final day, though the battle for second and third should rage on
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