 Callum Thornley in the 2024 Tour of Britain | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 August 2003 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Height | 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Trinity Racing |
| Disciplines |
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| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2022 | Wheelbase CabTech Castelli |
| Professional team | |
| 2023– | Trinity Racing |
Callum Thornley (born 5 August 2003) is a Scottish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Trinity Racing. [1]
Thornley is from Peebles in the Scottish Borders. He started mountain-biking at the age of eight and competed at Glentress as a youngster in races organised by Peebles Cycling Club. He raced on the road for the first time as a 16 year-old, but has been interested in road cycling since a family holiday to France as a child enabled him to watch the Tour de France live in the mountains. [2]
He was a stage winner and second overall at the Youth Tour of Errigal in Ireland in 2019. [3] That year, he also competed in the Scottish National Madison Championships, and won the silver medal in the boys' Madison alongside Alexander Gibb. [4]
Thornley finished second in the under-23 time-trial at the British National Time Trial Championships in Dumfries in June 2022. [5] [6] That year, he was riding for Wheelbase CabTech Castelli, before signing for Trinity Racing for 2023. [7] [8]
In 2023, he was selected by the British team to compete in the under-23 time trial at the 2023 UCI Road World Championships in Glasgow. [9] He finished in fourteenth place. [10]
In April 2024, Thornley finished tenth at the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs. [11] He raced in the Giro d'Italia Next Gen, finishing fifth in the stage one time-trial and second on stage seven. [12] [13] He finished ninth in the Points Classification and 11th in the Mountains Classification, and 56th overall. [1] In August, he rode in the Ronde van de Achterhoek, finishing ninth. [14] He was selected to ride the Tour of Britain in September, the first stage of which took place on home roads in the Scottish Borders. [15] Thornley comfortably won the Mountains Classification after strong rides on stages one and two. [16]
On 17 September 2024 it was announced that Thornley would represent Great Britain in the under-23 men's road race at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich. [17]
Mountains classification, Tour of Britain 
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