The French Pauline Ferrand-Prévot flew over the cross-country event of the 2022 mountain bike world championships, Sunday August 28 in Les Gets (Haute-Savoie). She won a fourth world title.
At 30, Frenchwoman Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has won the world title in cross-country mountain biking. She started alone in the lead from the first of the six laps. In Les Gets, at home, the new world champion expands her record a little more by adding a fourth world title, thus equaling the record of the Norwegian Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå.
Paris 2024 in sight
On Friday, the 2022 European vice-champion and 10th in the last Olympics in Tokyo had already won the title in cross-country short. “ I do not realize. I knew I could do it. I said to myself : “Pauline makes no mistake.” I had ups and downs. The season has been very difficult for me. I had a hard time rebuilding myself. It’s not revenge for me “, declared very moved the tricolor athlete on the L’Equipe channel.
In 2015, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the world titles in cyclo-cross and cross-country mountain biking, and thus became at 23 the first cyclist in history, male and female combined, to simultaneously hold a world title on all three disciplines. In 2014, she was crowned world champion on the road. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is missing an Olympic title that she should get at Paris 2024.
For her part, the European champion, Loana Lecomte, did not have the weapons to compete with her compatriot. The 23-year-old tricolor failed to make the podium, finishing in fourth place.