Pauline Ferrand-Prevot
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992 in Reims, France) is arguably the most versatile cyclist of her generation and one of the most decorated riders the sport has ever produced. An all-terrain phenomenon who has won elite world titles on the road, in cyclo-cross and in mountain biking, she crowned her off-road career with cross-country MTB Olympic gold at the Paris 2024 Games. In 2025 she returned to full-time road racing with Team Visma | Lease a Bike and immediately rewrote the record books, winning both Paris-Roubaix Femmes and the Tour de France Femmes in the same season. Find Pauline Ferrand-Prévot’s latest results, stats and race calendar on this page.
Biography of pro cyclist Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Ferrand-Prévot's career resists easy summary. Where most champions specialise, she has spent more than a decade collecting world titles across the entire spectrum of cycling, then reinventing herself when the next challenge appealed.
Her story is one of relentless ambition and a willingness to walk away from the familiar. After conquering mountain biking and the Olympic Games, she chose to come back to the road in her thirties and proved she could win the biggest races there too.
Early life and rise
Born in Reims, Ferrand-Prévot took to two wheels early and showed talent across disciplines from her teenage years, racing on the road, in the mud of cyclo-cross and on the mountain bike. That multi-surface upbringing shaped the complete rider she would become.
She turned professional on the road and made an immediate impression, but it was her refusal to be boxed into a single discipline that set her apart. By her early twenties she was competing, and winning, at world level across several forms of the sport at once.
Triple rainbow: a feat without precedent
In 2014 Ferrand-Prévot won the elite road race World Championship. She followed it in 2015 with the cyclo-cross world title and the cross-country mountain bike world title, becoming the first cyclist in history to simultaneously hold the world road, cyclo-cross and cross-country MTB titles. It remains one of the singular achievements in the sport's history and announced her as a generational talent.
Mountain bike dominance and Olympic gold
Ferrand-Prévot went on to build an extraordinary off-road palmarès. She added multiple cross-country MTB world titles (2015, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023), marathon world titles, short-track world titles and the inaugural-era gravel World Championship in 2022, winning in essentially every off-road discipline available. The crowning moment came at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where she took the cross-country mountain bike gold medal on home soil, the title that had long eluded her.
Road comeback: Roubaix and the Tour in one season
After Paris 2024, Ferrand-Prévot announced a full-time return to the road with Team Visma | Lease a Bike. The 2025 season exceeded even high expectations. She built form with a podium at Strade Bianche and second place at the Tour of Flanders, then won Paris-Roubaix Femmes — her first road victory in a decade. Months later she made her Tour de France Femmes debut and dominated, winning the two decisive mountain stages and sealing the overall title. In doing so she became the first Frenchwoman to win the Tour de France Femmes and, remarkably, the first woman to win both Paris-Roubaix and the Tour in the same year.
Rider profile: strengths and style
Ferrand-Prévot is the definition of a complete bike rider. Years of off-road racing gave her exceptional bike-handling, power on punchy terrain and the durability to thrive on chaotic, technical courses like the Roubaix cobbles. On the road she has proven she can climb with the best in the mountains and time her efforts in a three-week stage race. Allied to that is a fierce competitive streak, she has spoken candidly about being driven by winning rather than racing for its own sake and a tactical maturity built over a long, varied career.
Rivalries
Ferrand-Prévot's return placed her directly against the dominant forces of the women's peloton, including the SD Worx-Protime axis and the era's leading stage-race and Classics specialists. Her Tour de France Femmes victory, won in the high mountains, marked her out as a genuine general-classification threat rather than a one-day rider, setting up compelling head-to-head battles for Grand Tours and Monuments in the seasons ahead. The contrast between her all-terrain pedigree and the road-bred specialists she now faces gives these duels real narrative weight.
Personal life
Ferrand-Prévot has spoken openly about the mental demands of elite sport and her complex relationship with racing, describing herself as someone who loves winning more than competing. That honesty, combined with her willingness to repeatedly leave comfort zones to chase new goals, has made her one of the most respected and closely followed riders in the women's peloton. She is married with professional cyclist Dylan Van Baarle who rides for Soudal Quick-Step. Her sister, Axelle Dubau-Prévot is also a professional cyclist and currently races for EF Education - Oatly.
Records and milestones
- 2014 — Elite Road Race World Champion
- 2015 — Elite Cyclo-cross World Champion; Cross-country MTB World Champion (first rider to hold road, CX and MTB world titles simultaneously)
- 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 — Cross-country MTB World Champion (multiple further titles)
- 2022 — Gravel World Champion; additional marathon and short-track MTB world titles
- 2024 — Olympic cross-country mountain bike gold, Paris Games
- 2025 — Winner, Paris-Roubaix Femmes
- 2025 — Winner, Tour de France Femmes (overall + two mountain stages); first Frenchwoman to win the race
What's next for Pauline Ferrand-Prévot?
Having proven she can win Monuments and Grand Tours on the road, Ferrand-Prévot enters the seasons ahead as a marquee name in the women's peloton. Expect her to target further Tour de France Femmes titles and the Classics she has yet to add, while her crossover star power continues to draw new fans to the sport. After a career defined by reinvention, the only safe prediction is that she will keep chasing the biggest prizes.
