# Pauline Ferrand-Prévot

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's World Tour team Visma Lease a Bike Ferrand-Prévot has also competed in Mountain Biking and cyclo-cross during her career, winning the world title in each discipline. During the 2015 season, aged just 23, she became the first person in the history of cycling to simultaneously hold the World road title, World cyclo-cross title and World cross-country mountain bike title.
Ferrand-Prévot has been an elite national, world and Olympic champion across the various disciplines in which she competes. She was the youngest competitor in the Women's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in which she finished eighth. Twelve years later, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the cross-country mountain biking event.

## Career
### 2009–2010: Triple Junior World Champion

In July 2009, Ferrand-Prévot took part in the European Road Championships as a first year junior, where she narrowly won the Junior European time trial title ahead of Ukrainian Hanna Solovey. Four days later she placed third in the road race. Later in the same month, she won the junior European cross country championships, taking her second European title in less than 10 days in two different disciplines. She then participated in the World Junior Championships, winning silver in the time trial behind Hanna Solovey. In late August Ferrand-Prévot won both National Road titles in the junior category. In September, she won her first world title at the World cross country championship, whilst in October, she won the junior Chrono des Nations.
Ferrand-Prévot began her 2010 season competing in cyclo-cross. For women, there is no junior category which meant that she had to compete with the elite athletes. She came eighth in the World Cyclo-cross championships, more than two minutes behind future teammate Marianne Vos. After the cyclo-cross season, she was victorious at the City of Pujols road race, one of the constituent rounds of the Coupe de France, and would go on to top the final ranking in the Coupe de France for juniors. Further, she won a stage of the Circuit de Borsele junior, finishing fourth overall. She competed in the junior mountain bike World Cup, winning the Offenburg round and finished second in the Houffalize round. In mid-July, at the European Championships, Ferrand-Prévot had to settle for silver in both the time trial and road race. Ferrand-Prévot then competed in the junior World road race Championships in Offida, Italy finishing second in the time trial. She retained her junior national road titles. In September she defended successfully the junior Mountain bike world championships in MTB at Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada, becoming the second rider after Nicole Cooke to hold both World Championship titles in the same year on the road and in mountain biking.

### 2011–2013: The first professional years

Ferrand-Prévot began the 2011 season with a second place in the national cyclo-cross championships. In late January, she took eighth in the World Championship cyclo-cross. She was then selected to participate in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio for the French national road team, the first round of the 2011 UCI Women's Road World Cup achieving ninth place. After a fourth place in Halle-Buizingen, she finished seventh in the women's La Flèche Wallonne atop the Mur de Huy. In May, she went on to participate in two rounds of the UCI Under-23 MTB World Cup taking victory in both rounds. Ferrand-Prévot stated in mid-May that she would continue to ride in both disciplines for at least two more seasons. After a victory in the Coupe de France she participated in the two North American rounds of the Under-23 MTB World Cup winning both rounds again.
In July one year ahead of the London Olympics, she finished fifth in the pre-Olympic race. She then abandoned the MTB European championship. In August, after taking second place in the Val di Sole round of the Under-23 MTB World cup, she was crowned the overall winner. In November Ferrand-Prévot won the bronze medal at the European Cyclo-cross championships. In late November, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team announced they had signed her for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
In April 2012, Ferrand-Prévot achieved her first podium in the MTB World Cup, during the second round in Houffalize. She was then selected for the Olympic Mountain bike test event. In June, at Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, she won her first elite national time trial championship, completing the 26.8-kilometre (16.7-mile) loop in 36 minutes and 55 seconds, beating Audrey Cordon-Ragot by 17 seconds. She also won the Under-23 title. In July, she finished fourth in the elite national Mountain Bike championships but won the Under-23 title.

### 2014: The career year

Early in the season, Ferrand-Prévot won her first elite national cyclo-cross title. In late March, she finished fifth at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio. In April she won the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine ahead of Lizzie Armitstead and Elisa Longo Borghini. In July, Ferrand-Prévot came second in the Giro Rosa just 15 seconds behind teammate Marianne Vos becoming the second French woman to reach the podium of the Giro Rosa after the Catherine Marsal victory in 1990. She later took the overall victory at the Emakumeen Euskal Bira, her first stage race win, while collecting two stage wins.
In July, Ferrand-Prévot became the first French cyclist to accumulate four national titles in a single season (road race, time trial, cyclo-cross and mountain bike). She also recorded two wins in the elite Mountain Bike World Cup and finally finished tenth overall in the Mountain Bike World Cup. After taking victory at the Under-23 European Cross-Country Championships, she won her first world title in the mixed relay.
Late in the road season, Ferrand-Prévot took part in the Grand Prix de Plouay, last round of the Road World Cup, taking 3rd place. She later finished sixth overall in the competition. In September, 19 years after Jeannie Longo won the fabled rainbow jersey, she became World Road Race champion in Ponferrada, Spain. Later in the season, she finished second in the Vélo d'or Français behind Jean-Christophe Péraud and ahead of track World Champion François Pervis. Ferrand-Prévot was also selected "international cyclist of the year" by the American publication VeloNews.

### 2015: World champion in cyclo-cross and cross-country

Ferrand-Prévot started the season off with retaining her national cyclo-cross championship. A week of ahead of the cyclo-cross world championships, she finished on the podium in the final race of the cyclo-cross World Cup in Hoogerheide. In January, she won the Cyclo-cross world title, ahead of Sanne Cant and seven-time champion Marianne Vos. She finished runner-up at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio behind Lizzie Armitstead. In June, Ferrand-Prévot announced she had been suffering from sciatica which had ruined the start of her season. She returned to competition in the French national road race championships retaining her road title but only finishing third in the time trial. At the Giro Rosa, she finished ninth in the prologue but lost nearly two minutes on the leaders after the second stage. Winner of Stage 5 at Aprica, she finished 6th overall.
In August, Ferrand-Prévot started her mountain bike season with the goal of achieving a third world title in three different disciplines. She finished third in the Mont-Sainte-Anne round of World Cup and won the Windham round by more than a minute. On the road, she suffered a fall in the last kilometer of La Course by Le Tour de France as she did in 2014, but then went on to come third again at the Grand Prix de Plouay.
In the World mountain biking championship, she retained her mixed relay title (with Jordan Sarrou, Anthony Phillip and Victor Koretzky) and then added the World cross-country title.
In late November 2015 Ferrand-Prévot acquired a tibial plateau fracture during training, forcing her to refrain from racing for at least six weeks and miss most of the 2015–2016 cyclocross season.

### 2016

Ferrand-Prévot endured a difficult 2016 season. She competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, however she only finished 26th in the road race and abandoned the cross-country mountain bike race due to struggling with the effects of the tibial fracture she had sustained during the winter. She subsequently ended her season after the Games. In September 2016, after five years with the Rabobank team it was announced that Ferrand-Prévot would join Canyon–SRAM for the 2017 season.

### 2018

She was on the start list of the Cross Country European Championships in Glasgow and finished 2nd behind Jolanda Neff.

### 2022

Ferrand-Prévot became the inaugural winner of the UCI Gravel World Championships in the women's race.

## Personal life

Ferrand-Prévot comes from a cycling family; her uncle Ludovic Dubau was 1994 French champion in cross-country mountain biking and competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

## Career achievements
### Major championships timeline

| Event | Event | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Olympic Games | MTB XC | — | Not held | Not held | Not held | 25 | Not held | Not held | Not held | DNF | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | 10 | Not held | Not held | 1 |
| Olympic Games | Road race | — | Not held | Not held | Not held | 8 | Not held | Not held | Not held | 26 | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | — | Not held | Not held | — |
| World Championships | Cyclo-cross | — | 20 | 8 | 8 | — | — | 17 | 1 | — | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Championships | Gravel | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | 1 | — | — |
| World Championships | MTB XC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 16 | 3 | DNF | 1 | 1 | DNF | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| World Championships | Marathon | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| World Championships | Road race | — | — | — | — | 47 | 13 | 1 | 6 | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| European Championships | Cyclo-cross | 12 | 19 | 10 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | |
| European Championships | MTB XC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | 12 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | DNF |
| European Championships | Marathon | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| European Championships | Road race | Elite race did not exist | Elite race did not exist | Elite race did not exist | Elite race did not exist | Elite race did not exist | Elite race did not exist | Elite race did not exist | Elite race did not exist | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| National Championships | Cyclo-cross | — | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| National Championships | MTB XC | — | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| National Championships | Marathon | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 2 | — | — |
| National Championships | Road race | — | — | — | 14 | — | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | 18 | 20 | — | 12 | — | — | — |

### Cyclo-cross
#### 2009–2010

    Coupe de France
       2nd Saint-Quentin
       3rd Besançon
    3rd National Championships

#### 2010–2011

    2nd National Championships
    Coupe de France
       2nd Saint-Jean-de-Monts
       3rd Saverne
       3rd Miramas
    UCI World Cup
       5th Pontchâteau

#### 2011–2012

    1st Overall Coupe la France
       1st Rodez
       2nd Lignières-en-Berry
       3rd Besançon
    2nd National Championships
    Superprestige
       2nd Hamme
    3rd UEC European Championships
    UCI World Cup
       5th Heusden-Zolder

#### 2012–2013

    1st Overall Coupe de France
       1st Pontchâteau
       2nd Besançon
    2nd National Championships

#### 2013–2014

    1st National Championships
    Coupe de France
       1st Flamanville
    2nd Kalmthout
    UCI World Cup
       4th Rome
       5th Namur

#### 2014–2015

    1st UCI World Championships
    1st National Championships
    Superprestige
       2nd Diegem
    2nd Overijse
    2nd Hasselt
    UCI World Cup
       3rd Heusden-Zolder
       3rd Hoogerheide
       5th Namur

#### 2017–2018

    1st National Championships
    1st Overijse
    Superprestige
       2nd Diegem
    UCI World Cup
       3rd Nommay
       4th Heusden-Zolder
       5th Namur

#### UCI World Cup results

| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Rank | Points |
| 2008–2009 | KAL — | TAB — | PIJ — | KOK — | IGO — | NOM 25 | HOF — | ROU — | MIL — | | | | | | 53 | 6 |
| 2009–2010 | TRE — | PLZ — | NOM — | KOK — | IGO — | KAL — | ZOL — | ROU 11 | HOO 17 | | | | | | 28 | 34 |
| 2010–2011 | AIG — | PLZ — | KOK 16 | KAL 6 | ZOL 7 | PON 5 | HOO 7 | | | | | | | | 13 | 136 |
| 2011–2012 | PLZ — | TAB — | KOK — | IGO — | NAM 9 | ZOL 5 | LIE — | HOO — | | | | | | | 23 | 59 |
| 2012–2013 | TAB — | PLZ — | KOK 17 | ROU 16 | NAM — | ZOL 8 | ROM — | HOO — | | | | | | | 25 | 55 |
| 2013–2014 | VAL — | TAB — | KOK — | NAM 5 | ZOL — | ROM 4 | NOM 30 | | | | | | | | 20 | 76 |
| 2014–2015 | VAL — | KOK — | MIL — | NAM 5 | ZOL 3 | HOO 3 | | | | | | | | | 11 | 125 |
| 2017–2018 | IOW — | WAT — | KOK — | BOG — | ZEV — | NAM 5 | ZOL 4 | NOM 3 | HOO DNF | | | | | | 23 | 180 |
| 2022–2023 | WAT — | FAY — | TAB — | MAA — | BER — | OVE — | HUL — | ANT DNF | DUB 7 | VAL — | GAV 27 | ZON — | BEN — | BES — | 43 | 19 |

### Gravel
#### 2022

    1st UCI World Championships

### Mountain bike
#### 2009

    1st Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
    1st Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships
    3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships

#### 2010

    1st Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
    UCI Junior XCO World Cup
       1st Offenburg
       2nd Houffalize

#### 2011

    1st Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
       1st Dalby Forest
       1st Offenburg
       1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
       1st Windham
       2nd Val di Sole
       3rd Nové Město
    3rd Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships

#### 2012

    1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
    4th Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       4th Houffalize

#### 2013

    1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
    1st Saint-Pompon
    2nd Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
    2nd Cross-country, National Championships

#### 2014

    1st Team relay, UCI World Championships
    1st Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Nové Město
       1st Albstadt
       3rd Méribel
    1st Lons-le-Saunier

#### 2015

    UCI World Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Team relay
    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Windham
       3rd Nové Město
       3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne
    1st Saint-Pompon

#### 2016

    1st Team relay, UCI World Championships
    1st Cross-country, National Championships

#### 2017

    1st Roc d'Azur
    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
    UCI World Championships
       3rd Cross-country
       3rd Team relay

#### 2018

    2nd Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Stellenbosch
       3rd Nové Město
       4th Val di Sole
       4th La Bresse
    UCI XCC World Cup
       2nd Nové Město

#### 2019

    UCI World Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Marathon
    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Val di Sole
       1st Snowshoe
       3rd Lenzerheide
       5th Les Gets
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Lenzerheide
       2nd Les Gets
       2nd Snowshoe
       3rd Val di Sole
    Internazionali d’Italia Series
       2nd La Thuile
    French Cup
       3rd Jeumont
    Swiss Bike Cup
       3rd Leukerbad

#### 2020

    1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
    1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Nové Město II
       3rd Nové Město I
    UCI XCC World Cup
       2nd Nové Město I
       2nd Nové Město II
    3rd Marathon, National Championships

#### 2021

    1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Albstadt
       1st Les Gets
    2nd Cross-country, National Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Albstadt
       4th Nové Město
       4th Les Gets
       5th Leogang
    French Cup
       2nd Lons-le-Saunier
    Internazionali d’Italia Series
       2nd Nalles
    3rd Short track, UCI World Championships
    Swiss Bike Cup
       3rd Leukerbad

#### 2022

    UCI World Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Short track
       1st Marathon
    National Championships
       1st Short track
       2nd Cross-country
       2nd Marathon
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Val di Sole
       4th Lenzerheide
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Petropolis
       1st Val di Sole
       2nd Albstadt
    Ökk Bike Revolution
       1st Huttwil
    1st Roc d'Azur
    2nd Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    French Cup
       2nd Le Dévoluy
    3rd Overall Cape Epic (with Robyn de Groot)

#### 2023

    UCI World Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Short track
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Leogang
       3rd Lenzerheide
       3rd Val di Sole
    XCO French Cup
       1st Guéret
    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Nové Město
       3rd Vallnord
       3rd Les Gets
       4th Lenzerheide
    Ökk Bike Revolution
       2nd Chur

#### 2024

    1st Cross-country, Olympic Games
    1st Short track, UEC European Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Nové Město
       1st Val di Sole
    Shimano Super Cup
       1st La Nucia
       1st Banyoles
    XCO French Cup
       1st Marseille
    Ökk Bike Revolution
       1st Chur
    Swiss Bike Cup
       1st Rivera
    1st Nals
    UCI XCC World Cup
       2nd Nové Město
       2nd Val di Sole
    XCC French Cup
       2nd Marseille

#### UCI World Cup results

| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points |
| 2012 | PIE 13 | HOU 4 | NOV 20 | LAB 13 | MON — | WIN — | ISE — | | | 19 | 376 |
| 2013 | ALB 16 | NOV 11 | VAL — | AND — | MON — | HAF — | | | | 35 | 164 |
| 2014 | PIE — | CAI — | NOV 1 | ALB 1 | MON — | WIN — | MER 3 | | | 10 | 660 |
| 2015 | NOV 3 | ALB DNF | LEN — | MON — | WIN — | VAL — | | | | 28 | 160 |
| 2016 | CAI — | ALB DNF | LAB 37 | LEN DNF | MON — | AND — | | | | 71 | 32 |
| 2017 | NOV 51 | ALB 15 | AND 15 | LEN 19 | MON 2 | VAL — | | | | 17 | 437 |
| 2018 | STE 2 | ALB 9 | NOV 3 | VAL 4 | AND 11 | MON — | LAB 4 | | | 6 | 882 |
| 2019 | ALB 42 | NOV 9 | AND 12 | LES 5 | VAL 1 | LEN 3 | SNO 1 | | | 4 | 1076 |
| 2020 | LEN NH | VAL NH | LES NH | NOV 3 | NOV 1 | | | | | 1 | 475 |
| 2021 | ALB 2 | NOV 4 | LEO 5 | LES 4 | LEN DNF | SNO — | | | | 6 | 720 |
| 2022 | PET DNF | ALB 7 | NOV 20 | LEO — | LEN 4 | AND 9 | SNO — | MON — | VAL 1 | 11 | 941 |
| 2023 | NOV 2 | LEN 4 | LEO 7 | VAL 8 | AND 3 | LES 3 | SNO — | MON — | | 8 | 1157 |
| 2024 | MAI — | ARA — | NOV 1 | VAL 1 | CRA — | LES — | PLA — | MON — | | 25 | 630 |

### Road
#### 2009

    UEC European Junior Championships
       1st Time trial
       3rd Road race
    National Junior Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    UCI World Junior Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial

#### 2010

    UCI World Junior Championships
       1st Road race
       2nd Time trial
    National Junior Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    UEC European Junior Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial

#### 2011

    4th Time trial, National Championships
    4th Halle-Buizingen
    5th Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
    5th Grand Prix Nicolas Frantz
    7th La Flèche Wallonne
    9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda

#### 2012

    1st Time trial, National Championships
    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
    1st Sprints classification, Holland Ladies Tour
    2nd Omloop van het Hageland
    5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    7th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
    7th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
    8th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
    8th Road race, Olympic Games
    10th Ronde van Drenthe
    10th Holland Hills Classic

#### 2013

    1st Time trial, National Championships
    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
    2nd Team time trial, UCI World Championships
    3rd Dwars door de Westhoek
    4th Grand Prix Leende
    8th Overall La Route de France
       1st Young rider classification

#### 2014

    1st Road race, UCI World Championships
    National Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    National Under-23 Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    1st Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    1st La Flèche Wallonne
    2nd Overall Giro Rosa
       1st Young rider classification
    3rd GP de Plouay
    5th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Young rider classification
    5th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
    6th EPZ Omloop van Borsele

#### 2015

    National Championships
       1st Road race
       3rd Time trial
    2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
    3rd GP de Plouay
    5th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
    6th Road race, UCI World Championships
    6th Overall Giro Rosa
       1st Stage 5
    7th Tour of Flanders
    8th La Flèche Wallonne

#### 2016

    4th Pajot Hills Classic
    8th Tour of Flanders

#### 2017

    2nd GP de Plouay
    8th Amstel Gold Race

#### 2018

    6th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
    7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    9th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
    9th Overall The Women's Tour

#### 2021

    5th Time trial, National Championships

#### 2025

    3rd Strade Bianche Donne

### Awards and honours

* Velo magazine – International Cyclist of the year: 2014
* French Sportswoman of the Year: 2014, 2015, 2020

#### Orders

* Knight of the Legion of Honour: 2024