Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will make her first aggressive look on the highway in over three years when she traces up for France on the World Championships highway race in Zurich on September 28.
After profitable mountain bike gold on the Paris Olympic Video games, Ferrand-Prévot confirmed that she would return to the highway full-time in 2025, when she’s going to race for Visma-Lease a Bike and goal total victory on the Tour de France Femmes.
Ferrand-Prévot was already world champion on the highway in Ponferrada in 2014, however she would more and more shift the main target of her multi-discipline profession in the direction of off-road occasions after becoming a member of Canyon-SRAM in 2017. Her final look within the highway Worlds got here in Bergen in 2017, when she positioned eleventh.
The French rider spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons with the Crew Absolute Absalon BMC mountain bike squad earlier than turning into an Ineos Grenadiers rider in 2023 as she constructed in the direction of the Paris Olympics.
Ferrand-Prévot signed off on her mountain bike profession with silver within the cross-country quick observe occasion on the latest World Championships in Vallnord. The 32-year-old has been cross-country world champion on 5 events, and he or she has additionally collected rainbow jerseys in marathon and quick observe MTB, gravel and cyclocross.
For the reason that finish of the 2018 season, Ferrand-Prévot’s solely aggressive outings on the highway 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 Biking Federation on Monday.
Ferrand-Prévot will likely be joined within the workforce by Juliette Labous (Crew 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 can even compete within the particular person time trial on September 22, and they are going to be joined by Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Well being) within the blended relay workforce.
The boys’s workforce, in addition to the male representatives within the blended relay, will likely be introduced by coach Thomas Voeckler on Friday, with two-time world champion Julian Alaphilippe anticipated to steer the road.
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