French cyclist Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, from the Visma team, returned from the disease and a fall to win the Women’s Paris-Roubaix cobble classic on Saturday, April 12. “It’s my first victory and maybe the last one, I suffered a lot there in Theere.
The 33 -year -old Mountain Olympic champion broke around 15 km of approach. She was animated when she entered the Roubaix velodrome only around a minute ahead of a clutch of suitors and raised her arms with an almost so wide smile when she crossed the line after 3 hours 40 minutes 07 seconds. Then he sat exhausted and cried when a package ran for the podium points, with the second place in Italy Letizia Borghsi and the Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes third.
This was a debut in Paris-Roubaix for the cross discipline pilot who joined the road circuit in 2025 after a decade of absence.
Her boyfriend, the Dutch rider Dylan van Baarle, also or visma, won the Paris-Roubaix men three years ago. “It’s great that we both have one of the paving stones now, we will have two at home now,” he said about the cobblestones that occurred as a trophy. “I am sick in recent days and it wasn’t much to ride.”
In addition to the health problem, Ferrand-Prévot was one of the many runners who crashed and needed a bicycle change. “Marianne [Vos her teammate] We are waiting for me and together we managed to return to the main group, “he said.
The champion directed his attention to his key reason to bite the road circuit. “My main one is to win the Tour of France in the next three years. We have a good team and a good project and every reason to wait for success,” he added.
The 148 km trip is the fifth edition of the women’s event and begged in Denain before addressing the old mining roads in the Franco-Belga border region to Roubaix. The career of the 122nd male edition embarks from Compiègne on Sunday and Van Baarle will travel with Waut by Aert with the couple with an opportunity. All eyes will be in the current champion of the Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar, they also debut in the Paris-Roubaix.
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