Arabella Blackburn

Arabella Blackburn

Personal information
Born	(2007-12-25) 25 December 2007 (age 17) [1]
Team information
Disciplines	Track Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time Trial / All Rounder
Amateur team
2024-	Shibden Apex RT [2]
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing   Great Britain World Junior Championships 2025 Apeldoorn Team pursuit European Junior Championships 2025 Anadia Team pursuit

Arabella Blackburn (born 25 December 2007) is a Scottish road and track cyclist. She rides for Shibden Apex RT. She was a gold medalist in the team pursuit for Great Britain at the 2025 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships and the European Junior Track Cycling Championships in 2025.

Career

From Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire in Scotland, Blackburn was educated at Lathallan School. A keen cyclist and triathlete from an early age, she won the U14 British Cycling National Youth Circuit Race Championships in 2021 and further titles at the Scottish Criterium and Scottish Cyclocross Championships as an U16 cyclist in 2022. ^{[3] [4]}

In 2024, she rode for Shibden Apex RT where her teammates included fellow British riders Cat Ferguson and Imogen Wolff. ^[5]

Blackburn set a world junior record and won the gold medal at the 2025 European Junior Championships in Portugal in the Team Pursuit alongside Abi Miller, Evie Smith, Phoebe Taylor, and Erin Boothman, beating Italy in the final, and in doing so setting a junior world record with a time of 4:20:376. ^[6] Blackburn won the gold medal in the team pursuit with Miller, Smith, Boothman and Taylor at the 2025 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in August 2025. ^[7]

She competed for Great Britain at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships junior women’s road race in Kigali, Rwanda in September 2025. ^[8]

References

1. "Arabella Blackburn". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
2. "Arabella Blackburn". First Cycling. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
3. "Lathallan School celebrates four British champion sports star pupils". agcc.co.uk. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
4. Cryle, Ryan (14 July 2021). "Stonehaven cycling talent Arabella Blackburn, 13, wins British championship title". Press and Journal. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
5. "A golden generation". Velo UK. 25 April 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
6. Abbott, Will (23 July 2025). "York teenage cycling sensation sets junior world record". York Press. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
7. Beckett, Adam (26 August 2025). "'I don't think I could have dreamed of a better week' – GB return from Junior Track Worlds with five golds". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
8. "Frustrating Finale for Junior Women's Road Race Squad on Penultimate Day of 2025 UCI Road World Championships". British Cycling. 27 September 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025.