Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will make her first aggressive look on the street in over three years when she strains up for France on the World Championships street race in Zurich on September 28.
After profitable mountain bike gold on the Paris Olympic Games, Ferrand-Prévot confirmed that she would return to the street full-time in 2025, when she’s going to race for Visma-Lease a Bike and goal general victory on the Tour de France Femmes.
Ferrand-Prévot was already world champion on the street in Ponferrada in 2014, however she would more and more shift the main focus of her multi-discipline profession in direction of off-road occasions after becoming a member of Canyon-SRAM in 2017. Her final look within the street Worlds got here in Bergen in 2017, when she positioned eleventh.
The French rider spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons with the Team Absolute Absalon BMC mountain bike squad earlier than changing into an Ineos Grenadiers rider in 2023 as she constructed in direction of the Paris Olympics.
Ferrand-Prévot signed off on her mountain bike profession with silver within the cross-country brief monitor occasion on the current World Championships in Vallnord. The 32-year-old has been cross-country world champion on 5 events, and she or he has additionally collected rainbow jerseys in marathon and brief monitor MTB, gravel and cyclocross.
Since the tip of the 2018 season, Ferrand-Prévot’s solely aggressive outings on the street have come on the French championships in 2019 and 2021, however she was included within the seven-rider choice for the Zurich Worlds that was introduced by the French Cycling Federation on Monday.
Ferrand-Prévot might be joined within the crew by Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Cédrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit-WNT), Marion Bunel (St Michel-Mavic) and the FDJ-SUEZ trio of Évita Muzic, Léa Curinier and Jade Wiel.
Kerbaol and Juliette may even compete within the particular person time trial on September 22, and they are going to be joined by Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Health) within the combined relay crew.
The males’s crew, in addition to the male representatives within the combined relay, might be introduced by coach Thomas Voeckler on Friday, with two-time world champion Julian Alaphilippe anticipated to steer the road.
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