Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
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10 February 1992 Reims, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road, cross-country, cyclo-cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009 | Team Scott-Valloire Galibier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | AC Bazancourt-Reims | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Lapierre International | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012– | Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | →Rabobank–Giant Offroad Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | →Giant Pro XC Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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, Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team. 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, Rabo–Liv 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 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
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
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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]
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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 Canyon–SRAM for the 2017 season.[5]
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
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Giro Rosa
- 1st Youth Classification
- 1st
- 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 2 "Athlete profile". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2013.
- ↑ Pauline Ferrand-Prévot profile at Cycling Archives
- ↑ Reynolds, Tom (24 September 2015). "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot: Why French star may be greatest cyclist". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ↑ "Ferrand-Prevot ruled out of cyclo-cross season after training crash". Cycling News. 26 November 2015.
- ↑ "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot signs for Canyon SRAM". cyclingnews.com. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
- ↑ "Les petites histoires du cyclo-cross français". La Gazette Des Sports. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ↑ Gatellier, Jean-Luc. "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot et Julien Absalon, un tandem pour Rio". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ "Van Der Breggen wins overall title at Elsy Jacobs". cyclingnews.com. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ "Anna van der Breggen wins La Flèche Wallonne Féminine". cyclingnews.com. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- ↑ "Results - Mountain Bike 2016". uci.ch. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ↑ "2014 International Cyclist of the Year: Pauline Ferrand-Prevot". VeloNews.com.
- ↑ "Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and Eddy Merckx honoured in Paris". The Bike Comes First.
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French Sportswoman of the Year 2014, 2015 |
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