Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Olympic mountain bike champion, is in a relationship with a former winner of the famous race.
At 32, Pauline Ferrand Prévot was one of the favorites to win the mountain bike title at the Olympic Games this summer in Paris. A five-time world champion in cross-country, the mountain bike discipline featured at the Games, she has also won seven other world championship titles in mountain biking, one in cyclo-cross, one in gravel and one on the road.
While she did not perform at the three Olympics she participated in, failing to win a medal. During these home Games, she put on a real recital by winning the cross country event, one of the greatest moments of the Paris Olympics.
But high-level sport often floods the private lives of athletes, to the point where couples form very regularly within the same discipline. If the one formed by Marion Rousse and Julian Alaphilippe regularly hits the headlines in the world of cycling, Pauline Ferrand Prévot also has a beautiful story with a cycling enthusiast. A rider from the Visma | Lease a Bike team. This is the Dutchman Dylan Van Baarle.
Born as Pauline Ferrand Prévot in 1992, Dylan Van Baarle began his professional career in 2011. A model teammate in the Sky then Ineos team of Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal, he was recruited by Jonas Vingegaard’s team at the end of the 2022 season, the best of his career. He notably finished second in the Tour of Flanders behind Matthieu van der Poel that season, and won his first Monument by soloing Paris-Roubaix.
Dutch road champion in 2023, time trial champion in 2018, he also has the 2021 edition of À travers la Flandre to his name. Although he missed the 2024 Tour de France due to a withdrawal following a fall on the Dauphiné, Dylan van Baarle should be present in Paris, like Pauline Ferrand Prévot, for the Olympic Games, as part of the Dutch road cycling selection.
The ideal year to see your partner triumph? This 2024 season could be the last exclusively dedicated to mountain biking for French champion Pauline Ferrand Prévot. The woman who has not competed in road races since 2018 has announced her wish to return to racing on asphalt, while her team, Ineos-Grenadiers, wants to set up a women’s team next season. The competition would be tough for the Frenchwoman, with Annemiek Van Vleuten and Lotte Kopecky in particular.