The triple mountain bike world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot dominated the short track event on Friday at the Worlds in Les Gets (Haute-Savoie), two days before the cross-country race where the Frenchwoman is aiming for a fourth coronation. In the pouring rain, «PFP»30, struggled for a long time with several riders, including Italian Greta Seiwald and Swiss Alessandra Keller, but she accelerated with three laps remaining to outrun everyone and finish alone in the lead. “I am really happy. I didn’t leave very quickly and I saved some to launch my attack. Afterwards, I managed to keep a good pace and it ended well., said Ferrand-Prévot after the race. World champion on the road in 2014 and in cyclo-cross in 2015, three times titled in cross-country, the Champenoise added on Friday to her impressive record a world title in short track, very short race format (7 loops of 1, 2 kms to Les Gets) and fast (about 20 minutes).
After a start to the season “rather shy”, in his own words, with a silver medal in cross-country as the only international podium at the European Championships in Germany last week, Ferrand-Prévot confirmed with this victory his return to form, before the flagship event. the Mountain Bike World Championships on Sunday. She is aiming for a fourth world cross-country title in Les Gets, an Olympic discipline in Paris-2024, and would thus equal the record of the Norwegian Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå. Her main rival will be Loana Lecomte, great hope of French mountain biking, who did not take part in the short track.
Podium femmes :
1. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) 21:56
2. Alessandra Keller (SUI) at 0:18.
3. Gwendalyn Gibson (USA) 0:21.