Pauline Ferrand-Prevot: Who is Ineos Grenadiers' first-ever female rider?

Cycling team Ineos Grenadiers have signed French multi-discipline bicycle racer Pauline Ferrand-Prévot for the 2023 season. 

Ferrand-Prévot is the first female rider to ever be signed by the team as general manager Dave Brailsford seeks to diversify from their roots in road cycling. 

The 30-year-old is a multiple-time world champion, having won eight mountain bike world titles and three cyclo-cross National Championships. 

Ineos Grenadiers are a British cycling team that compete at the UCI WorldTeam level. 

Managed by Brailsford, the team were launched in 2010 and formerly known as Team Sky up until 2019. 

Brailsford initially wanted to win the Tour de France with a British driver inside five years and did so after just two, when Bradley Wiggins stormed to victory. 

Fellow Brit, Chris Froome, then went on to win the race four times between 2013 and 2017. 

Following Sky’s decision not to renew sponsorship in 2019, the team secured support from British chemicals group Ineos and became Team Ineos. 

The team was then re-branded to Ineos Grenadiers to reflect the company’s new off-road vehicle, the Ineos Grenadier. 

Ferrand-Prévot is an elite world and national champion across the various different disciplines in which she competes. 

She won the road world title in 2014, the cyclo-cross world championship in 2015 and only last week finished first at the Gravel World Championships. 

In 2015, aged only 23, she became the first person ever to hold the road world title, world cyclo-cross and world cross-country mountain bike titles simultaneously. 

Ferrand-Prévot was also the youngest competitor in the Women’s road race at the 2012 London Olympics, where she finished eighth. 

Hailing from a cycling family, Ferrand-Prévot’s uncle