Pauline Ferrand-Prévot

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot

Ferrand-Prévot in 2011
Personal information
Nickname	PFP
Born	(1992-02-10) 10 February 1992 Reims, France
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Team information
Current team	Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team
Discipline	Road, cross-country, cyclo-cross
Role	Rider
Amateur team(s)
2009	Team Scott-Valloire Galibier
2010	AC Bazancourt-Reims
2011	Lapierre International
Professional team(s)
2012–	Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team
2012	→Rabobank–Giant Offroad Team
2013	→Giant Pro XC Team
Major wins
World Cup races La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2014) One day races World Road Race Champion (2014) National Road Race Champion (2014–2015) National Time Trial Champion (2012–2014) Stage races Emakumeen Euskal Bira (2014) Other National Cyclo-cross Champion (2014–2015) World Cyclo-cross Champion (2015) World MTB XCO Elite Champion (2015)
Medal record Competitor for  France Road bicycle racing World Championships 2014 Ponferrada Road race European Championships 2009 Ostende Junior Time Trial 2010 Ankara Junior Road Race 2010 Ankara Junior Time Trial 2009 Ostende Junior Road Race Mountain Bike World Championships 2015 Vallnord Elite cross-country 2013 Pietermaritzburg U23 cross-country 2011 Champéry U23 cross-country European Championship 2014 St. Wendel U23 race 2009 Zoetermeer Junior race Cyclo-cross World Championships Tábor 2015 Elite Women
Infobox last updated on 25 May 2014

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992 in Reims) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer who competes in road, cyclo-cross and cross-country mountain biking.^[2] Ferrand-Prévot currently rides for UCI Women's Team, Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team. During the 2015 season, aged just 23, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot became the first person ever - in the history of cycling - to simultaneously hold the World road title, World cyclo-cross title and World mountain bike title.^[3]

Ferrand-Prévot is a five-time elite world champion and a nine-time elite national 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.^[1]

She is in a relationship with triathlete Vincent Luis.^[4]

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 Ferrand-Prévot placed third in the road race. Later in the same month, Ferrand-Prévot 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 junior road titles. In September, Ferrand-Prévot 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 cyclocross. For women, there is no junior category which meant that Ferrand-Prévot had to compete with the elite athletes. Ferrand-Prévot came eighth in the World Cyclo-cross championships, more than two minutes behind future team mate Marianne Vos. After the cyclo-cross season, Ferrand-Prévot was victorious at the City of Pujols road race, one of the constituent rounds of the Coupe de France. Ferrand-Prévot 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. Ferrand-Prévot went onto compete in the junior mountain bike World Cup, winning the Offenburg round and finished second in Houffalize rounf. 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. Ferrand-Prévot would go onto to finish second in the time trial. Ferrand-Prévot then went on to retain her junior national road titles. In September Ferrand-Prévot defended the junior Mountain bike world championships in mountain biking juniors at Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada. Ferrand-Prévot would go on to retain this title, 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 Pro years

The 2011 season began with a second place in the national cyclo-cross championships. In late January, Ferrand-Prévot took eighth in the World Championship cyclo-cross. Ferrand-Prévot was then selected to participate in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio for the French national road team, first round of the 2011 UCI Women's Road World Cup. Ferrand-Prévot achieved ninth place. After a fourth place in Halle-Buizingen, Ferrand-Prévot finished seventh in the women's La Flèche Wallonne atop the Mur de Huy. In May, Ferrand-Prévot when on to participate in two rounds of the UCI MTB World Cup taking victory in both rounds. Ferrand-Prévot stateed in mid-May that she would continue to ride in both disciplines for at least two more seasons. After victory in the Coupe de France. In July Ferrand-Prévot participatedin the two North American rounds of the MTB World Cup winning both rounds again. In July one year ahead of the London Olympics, Ferrand-Prévot finished fifth in the pre-Olympic race. Ferrand-Prévot then abandoned the MTB European championship. In August, after taking second place in the Val di Sole round of the MTB World cup, Ferrand-Prévot was crowned the overall winner. In November Ferrand-Prévot won the bronze medal at the European Cyclo-cross championships. In late November, Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team announced they had signed Ferrand-Prévot for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

In April, 2012, Ferrand-Prévot achieved first podium in the MTB World Cup, during the second round in Houffalize. Ferrand-Prévot was then selected for the Olympic Mountain bike test event. In June, at Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Ferrand-Prévot won her first elite national time trial championship, completing the 26.8 km loop in 36 minutes and 55 seconds, beating Audrey Cordon by 17 seconds. Ferrand-Prévot 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

Ferrand-Prévot at the 2014 Cyclo-Cross international de Dijon wearing the French national champions kit.

Early in the season, Ferrand-Prévot won her first elite national cyclocross 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 2014 Giro Rosa just 15 seconds behind team-mate Marianne Vos, she became the second French woman to reach the podium of the Giro Rosa, after the Catherine Marals victory in 1990. Ferrand-Prévot went onto the take the overall victory at the Emakumeen Euskal Bira, her first overall stage race win.

In July, she became the first French cyclist to accumulate four national titles in a single season (road race, time trial, cyclo-cross and mountain bike). Ferrand-Prévot also went on to record two wins in the elite Mountain Bike World Cup. She finally finished tenth overall in the Mountain Bike World Cup. After taking victory at the European Championship XC championships, Ferrand-Prévot went on to win her first world title in the mixed relay.

Late in the road season, she took part in the Grand Prix de Plouay, last round of the Road World Cup. Ferrand-Prévot would go onto finish 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 by the American publication, VeloNews, as "international cyclist of the year".

2015: World Cyclo-cross & Mountain bike champion

Ferrand-Prévot at the 2015 La Course by Le Tour de France.

Ferrand-Prévot started the season off, retaining her national cyclo-cross championship. A week of ahead of the cyclo-cross world championships, Ferrand-Prévot finished on the podium in the final race of the cyclo-cross World Cup in Hoogerheide. In January, Ferrand-Prévot would go on to win the Cyclo-cross world title, ahead of Sanne Cant and seven-time champion Marianne Vos. Ferrand-Prévot woud go on to finish runnerup at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio behind Lizzie Armitstead. In June, she announced she had been suffering from sciatica which had ruined the start of her season. Ferrand-Prévot returned to competition in the French national road race championships, where she retained her road title but could only finish third in the time trial. At the Giro Rosa, Ferrand-Prévot finished ninth in the prologue, but lost nearly two minutes on the leaders after the second stage.

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-Saine-Annie round of World Cup and won the Windham round by more than a minute. On the road, Ferrand-Prévot suffered a fall in the last kilometer of La Course by Le Tour de France as she did in 2014, but then went onto 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.^[5]

Palmarès – Road

Palmarès – Cyclo-cross / Mountainbike

Gallery

Ferrand Prevot on the Oude Kwaremont at the 2015 Tour of Flanders  Ferrand Prevot at the 2014 La Course by Le Tour in the French national road champions kit

Awards

• Velo magazine – International Cyclist of the year: 2014^[8]
• French Sportsperson of the Year: 2014^[9]

References

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