Cycling-Ferrand-Prevot wins fifth MTB cross country title


  • Cycling
  • Saturday, 12 Aug 2023

Cycling - UCI World Championships 2023 - Glentress Forest, Peebles, Scotland, Britain - August 12, 2023 Gold medallist, France's Pauline Ferrand Prevot celebrates winning the Women's Elite Mountain Bike Cross-country Olympic on the podium REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska

GLASGOW (Reuters) - Pauline Ferrand-Prevot completed a golden double at the UCI World Championships when she outclassed the field to win the mountain bike cross country title for a fifth time on Saturday.

The 31-year-old French rider attacked her compatriot Loana Lecomte on the second lap in a wet Glentress Forest and never looked back as she won by more than a minute.

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