One-day races and Classics Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Woemen's World Tour team Visma Lease a Bike[5] Ferrand-Prévot has also competed in Mountain Biking and cyclo-cross during her career,[6] winning the world title in each discipline.

[1] Twelve years later, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the cross-country mountain biking event.

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.

After a fourth place in Halle-Buizingen, she finished seventh in the women's La Flèche Wallonne atop the Mur de Huy.

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 April she won the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine ahead of Lizzie Armitstead and Elisa Longo Borghini.

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).

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.

In January, she won the Cyclo-cross world title, ahead of Sanne Cant and seven-time champion Marianne Vos.

In August, Ferrand-Prévot started her mountain bike season with the goal of achieving a third world title in three different disciplines.

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.

[10] Ferrand-Prévot comes from a cycling family; her uncle Ludovic Dubau was 1994 French champion in cross-country mountain biking[11] and competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.