Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Visma-Lease a Bike Women
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2026 - Visma-Lease a Bike Women
- 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
'We can make the race harder, but do we want to?' Tour de France Femmes director Marion Rousse backs variety over difficulty for future route design
News 'The race now forms part of people's daily lives' says race director after success of new format of one-week separation from men's Tour
Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will not start stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes
News Visma-Lease a Bike announce the Frenchwoman's departure due to illness on Saturday morning
No fairytale Mont Ventoux comeback for Pauline Ferrand-Prévot as team still without answers on underwhelming Tour de France Femmes
News 'Looking at last year's programme and this year's programme doesn't give us any insight for this moment, but we will do it, of course, afterwards' says team manager Rutger Thijssen
'So many riders now are able to ride at a high level, it's crazy' – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot reveals she hit a power PB as she was being put to the sword at Tour de France Femmes
News Defending champion reflects on massive gains in level in women's cycling, saying 'in one year, the difference is huge'
Visma-Lease a Bike rewrite Tour de France Femmes GC strategy after Pauline Ferrand-Prévot loses more time
News Femke de Vries now the team's best placed GC rider in eighth at 3:11
'I think it's over' – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot admits defeat in Tour de France Femmes title defence after struggles on stage 5
News The Visma-Lease a Bike rider was dropped with Anna van der Breggen, with more than 30km to ride
'I quite like this scenario of having to go after them rather than being the favourite' – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot down but not out after Tour de France Femmes time trial
News Frenchwoman looking forward to trying to make up two minutes on GC rivals Marlen Reusser and Demi Vollering
On the back foot: defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot suffers major GC setback in Tour de France Femmes time trial
News French star loses more than two minutes to stage winner and new race leader Marlen Reusser, and 1:55 to Demi Vollering
'So far, everything is going according to plan' – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot on track after first three Tour de France Femmes stages but now it's time to head into the great unknown
News Individual time trial on stage 4 delivers a crucial GC test where the mystery of defending champion's prowess in the discipline is set to be revealed
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The fascination of the three amigos GC battle - Philippa York Vuelta a España analysis
Jonas Vingegaard is the overall favourite but can João Almeida and Juan Ayuso combine to beat him? -
Nathan Haas blog: Has the UCI done enough for gravel pros at the Gravel World Championships?
Sponsored gravel riders appear to be losing interest in the rainbow jersey battle -
Lauren De Crescenzo and her tough decision to miss UCI Gravel World Championships
In her own words, the gravel star explains the complex picture of the Gravel World Championships for the US team -
A proper women's race – Historic day in Emporia at Unbound Gravel
Extended gaps around women's start end with unprecedented sprint finish though 'it’s still imperfect, but it’s the best we can do for now' -
Road prep and adapting to new rules as Life Time Grand Prix begins at Fuego XL mountain bike event
Lauren De Crescenzo uses The Growler for confidence boost ride ahead of prestigious off-road series
