This page covers Pauline Ferrand-prévot's 2026 season race-by-race, including results, roles, key moments, and incidents for each race. Each entry is a spoiler for the corresponding race. Read no further if you intend to watch any of them unspoiled.
Ferrand-Prévot was Visma | Lease a Bike's leader on the day and finished seventh at twenty-eight seconds, in the group fighting just behind the podium contenders on the Mur de Huy. A solid showing on a steep finish that is not her natural specialism.
The defending champion was the engine of the winning move and, ultimately, its sacrifice. She attacked on the rise just after Mons-en-Pévèle to create the four-up split, then spent the finale closing every gap Koch opened so that Vos could ride for the sprint. It was selfless, disciplined racing in service of a teammate — and it didn't pay off. She had to fight back onto the front more than once, closed a final gap before the velodrome, then led out the sprint for Vos. Third at +0:06 is the price of being the rider who does all the work in a plan that comes up one bike-length short.
The strongest pursuer and the only rider to keep Vollering's gap from ballooning. Briefly distanced by Pieterse on the Paterberg, she fought back on the flat run-in and then timed the two-up sprint for second perfectly, coming past inside the final 500 m. A second straight runner-up finish at the Ronde.