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Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Ferrand-Prévot in 2011
Personal information
NicknamePFP
Born (1992-02-10) 10 February 1992 (age 32)
Reims, France
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Team information
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DisciplineRoad, cross-country, cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2009Team Scott-Valloire Galibier
2010AC Bazancourt-Reims
2011Lapierre International
Professional teams
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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
Representing  France
Road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Ponferrada Road race
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Ostende Junior Time Trial
Silver medal – second place 2010 Ankara Junior Road Race
Silver medal – second place 2010 Ankara Junior Time Trial
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Ostende Junior Road Race
Mountain Bike
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Vallnord Elite cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2013 Pietermaritzburg U23 cross-country
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Champéry U23 cross-country
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2009 Zoetermeer Junior race
Gold medal – first place 2014 St. Wendel U23 race
Cyclo-cross
World Championships
Gold medal – first place Tábor 2015 Elite Women

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer who competes in road, cyclo-cross and cross-country mountain biking.[2] She currently rides for UCI Women's Team, You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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  • {{Contentious topics/list}} and {{Contentious topics/table}} show which topics are currently designated as contentious topics. They are used by a number of templates and pages on Wikipedia.. During the 2015 season, aged just 23, she 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]

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 junior road titles. 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 team mate 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 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 finishing second in the time trial. She retained her junior national road titles. In September she defended the junior Mountain bike world championships in mountain biking juniors at Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada. She later kept 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

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 when on to participate in two rounds of the UCI 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 victory in the Coupe de France she in July participated in the two North American rounds of the 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 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, You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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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 km loop in 36 minutes and 55 seconds, beating Audrey Cordon 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

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 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 2014 Giro Rosa just 15 seconds behind team-mate 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 overall stage race win.

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 European Championship XC 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. 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 Cyclo-cross & Mountain bike champion

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

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 losing 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, 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.[4]

Ferrand-Prévot at the 2016 Summer Olympics

2016

Ferrand-Prévot endured a difficult 2016 season. She competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, however she only finished 24th 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 You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Personal life

Ferrand-Prévot comes from a cycling family; her uncle Ludovic Dubau was 1994 French champion in cross-country mountain biking[6] and competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

In April 2016, L'Équipe reported her to be in a relationship with top cross-country mountain biker Julien Absalon, who said that they were living together in Fréjus in southeastern France.[7]

Honours

Road

2009
1st European Junior Time Trial Championship
1st National Junior Road Race Championship
1st National Junior Time Trial Championship
2nd World Junior Time Trial Championship
2nd World Junior Road Race Championship
3rd European Junior Road Race Championship
2010
1st World Junior Road Race Championship
1st National Junior Road Race Championship
1st National Junior Time Trial Championship
2nd World Junior Time Trial Championship
2nd European Junior Time Trial Championship
2nd European Junior Road race Championship
2011
4th National Time Trial Championships
4th Halle-Buizingen
5th Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
5th Grand Prix Nicolas Frantz
7th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
2012
1st National Time Trial championships
1st National U23 Time Trial championships
1st Sprints classification Holland Ladies Tour
2nd Omloop van het Hageland
4th World TTT World Championships
5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
7th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
7th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
8th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
8th Olympic Games Road Race
10th Ronde van Drenthe
2013
1st National Time Trial championships
1st National U23 Time Trial championships
2nd World Team Time Trial Championship
3rd Dwars door de Westhoek
4th GP Leende
6th National Road Race Championship
8th Overall La Route de France
1st Youth classification
2014
1st UCI Road Race World Championships
1st National Time Trial championships
1st National Road Race championships
1st National U23 Road Race championships
1st National U23 Time Trial championships
1st Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
1st Stages 1 & 3
1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
1st Mountains classification FLdC Elsy Jacobs
1st Youth classification
2nd Overall Giro Rosa
1st Youth Classification
3rd GP de Plouay
5th Trofeo Alfredo Binda — Comune di Cittiglio
5th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
2015
1st National Road Race championships
1st Stage 5 Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile
2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
3rd GP de Plouay
4th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs[8]
8th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine[9]

Cyclo-cross / Mountainbike

2009
1st World Junior MTB XCO Championship
1st European Junior MTB XCO Championship
2nd Saint-Quentin Cyclo-cross
3rd National Junior MTB XCO Championship
3rd Besançon Cyclo-cross
8th World Cyclo-cross Championships
2010
1st World Junior MTB XCO Championship
2nd Saint-Jean-de-Monts Cyclo-cross
3rd National Cyclo-cross Championship
3rd Saverne Cyclo-cross
3rd Miramas Cyclo-cross
8th World Cyclo-cross Championships
2011
1st Overall U23 MTB XCO World Cup
1st Rodez Cyclo-cross
2nd National Cyclo-cross Championship
2nd Lignières-en-Berry Cyclo-cross
2nd Hamme-Zogge Cyclo-cross
3rd World U23 MTB XCO Championships
3rd European Cyclo-cross Championship
3rd Besançon Cyclo-cross
2012
1st National U23 MTB XCO Championship
1st Pontchâteau Cyclo-cross
2nd National Cyclo-cross Championship
2nd Besançon Cyclo-cross
4th Houffalize MTB XCO World Cup
2013
1st National U23 MTB XCO Championship
1st Saint-Pompon Mountainbike
1st Flamanville Cyclo-cross
2nd World U23 MTB XCO Championships
2nd National Cyclo-cross Championship
2nd National MTB XCO Championship
2nd Kalmthout Cyclo-cross
2014
1st World Team relay MTB XCO Championship
1st National Cyclo-cross Championship
1st National MTB XCO championship
1st National U23 MTB XCO Championship
1st European U23 MTB XCO Championship
1st Nove Mesto na Morave MTB XCO World Cup
1st Albstadt MTB XCO World Cup
1st Lons-le-Saunier Mountainbike
2015
1st UCI MTB XCO Elite World Championship
1st UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
1st World Team relay MTB XCO Championship
1st National Cyclo-cross Championship
1st National MTB XCO Championship
1st Windham MTB XCO World Cup
1st Coupe de France Cycliste de Cyclo-Cross
1st Saint-Pompon Mountainbike
2016
1st World Team relay MTB XCO Championship[10]
1st National MTB XCO championship

Awards

  • Velo magazine – International Cyclist of the year: 2014[11]
  • French Sportsperson of the Year: 2014[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Athlete profile". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2013.
  2. ^ Pauline Ferrand-Prévot at Cycling Archives (archived)
  3. ^ Reynolds, Tom (24 September 2015). "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot: Why French star may be greatest cyclist". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Ferrand-Prevot ruled out of cyclo-cross season after training crash". Cycling News. 26 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot signs for Canyon SRAM". cyclingnews.com. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Les petites histoires du cyclo-cross français". La Gazette Des Sports. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  7. ^ Gatellier, Jean-Luc. "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot et Julien Absalon, un tandem pour Rio". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Van Der Breggen wins overall title at Elsy Jacobs". cyclingnews.com. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Anna van der Breggen wins La Flèche Wallonne Féminine". cyclingnews.com. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  10. ^ "Results - Mountain Bike 2016". uci.ch. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  11. ^ "2014 International Cyclist of the Year: Pauline Ferrand-Prevot". VeloNews.com.
  12. ^ "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and Eddy Merckx honoured in Paris". The Bike Comes First.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by French Sportswoman of the Year
2014, 2015
Succeeded by
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