Cat Ferguson

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Cat Ferguson
Cat Profile Photo Shibden Hope Tech Apex.jpg
Personal information
Born (2006-04-27) 27 April 2006 (age 18) [1]
Team information
Current team Movistar Team (Stagiaire)
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
  • Cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Amateur teams
-2022Team Storey
2022–2024Shibden Hope Tech Apex
Professional team
2024 Movistar Team (Stagiaire)
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Women's track cycling
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Luoyang Omnium
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 LuoyangTeam pursuit
European Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Cottbus Madison
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Anadia Omnium
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2024 CottbusTeam pursuit
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 AnadiaTeam pursuit
Women's road bicycle racing
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Zurich Road race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 Zurich Time trial
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Glasgow Road race
European Youth Summer Olympic Festival
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Banská Bystrica Girls' TT
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Banská BystricaGirls' road
Women's cyclo-cross
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Hoogerheide Team relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Tábor Team relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Tábor Junior race
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Pontchâteau Junior race
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2023 PontchâteauTeam relay

Cat Ferguson (born 27 April 2006) is a British racing cyclist, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines. She is a four-time World Junior Champion, holding four titles across two disciplines, all won in 2024. She is the 2024 Junior Track Cycling World Champion in both the team pursuit and the omnium, and the 2024 Junior Road Cycling World Champion in both the time trial and road race. [2] [3] She was the first cyclist to win the World Junior road double since compatriot Zoe Bäckstedt. [4] Ferguson additionally won two silver medals at the 2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, in the women's junior race and the mixed team relay. [5] [6]

Contents

In 2024, she joined Movistar Team as a stagiaire before becoming full-time member in 2025. [7]

Early life

From Skipton in Yorkshire, [8] she attended South Craven High School. [9] She started riding mountain bikes as a child with her father on local trails in Yorkshire. From there she graduated to attending the British National School of Racing. [10] She was also a competitive skier, specialising in slalom skiing as a youth. [11]

Career

2021

Ferguson won her first national title, becoming U16 National Female Road Circuit Champion, in Redbridge, London in July 2021. [12] Later that month, Ferguson won her first national track cycling championship, clinching the U16 Madison title alongside her partner Carys Lloyd, in Glasgow. [13]

2022

In January 2022, Ferguson won the British U16s Cyclocross National Championships in Crawley, Sussex. [14]

In August 2022, she and Carys Lloyd retained their U16 National Madison title in Newport. [15]

Ferguson was a double gold medalist at the 2022 European Youth Olympics in Banská Bystrica in July 2022, winning both the road race and time trial. [16] That month, riding for Team Storey, she also won the British National U16 Road Racing title in Scarborough. [17]

2023

In February 2023, she was a silver medalist in the junior race at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Tábor. [18] Ferguson won a silver medal in the team relay at the 2023 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide in a team that included Anna Kay and Zoe Backstedt. [19]

Ferguson rode as a junior for the UK-based team Shibden Hope Tech Apex. She won on her Nations Cup road racing debut for Great Britain at the Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda aged 16 years-old. She then won the junior edition 2023 Tour of Flanders for Women, and the junior British Time Trial title, in 2023. She also finished sixth at the junior Cyclo-cross World Championships. [20] [21]

Ferguson won a silver medal in the junior women's road race at the 2023 UCI World Road Championships in Glasgow in August 2023. [22]

In November 2023, Ferguson won a silver medal in the Mixed Team Relay at the European Cyclo-cross Championships, alongside Cameron Mason, Anna Kay, Dan Barnes, Oscar Amey, and Imogen Wolff. [23] She later won a second silver medal at the championships, in the junior women's race. [24]

In late 2023 it was announced that Ferguson will join Movistar Team in 2024 as a stagiaire before becoming a full-time professional on a three-year contract. [7] She will continue to race for her British junior team Shibden Hopetech Apex during the 2023–24 winter but will also attend Movistar training camps while working with their performance team. [25]

2024

In January 2024, Ferguson won the junior national title at the British Cyclo-cross Championships. [26] At the 2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships Ferguson won silver in both the Women's junior race and the team relay. [5] [6]

She won two gold medals at the 2024 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Luoyang, China. As part of the British women's team pursuit team alongside Imogen Wolff, Carys Lloyd and Erin Boothman she set a new world record time of 4:20.811 to beat France in the final. She also won the women's omnium race at the Championships in August 2024. [2]

Following wins in the British junior road race [27] and in Bizkaikoloreak, [28] Ferguson made her first start as a Movistar rider in the 2024 La Choralis Fourmies Féminine, finishing second to Silvia Zanardi in a bunch sprint. [29]

In September 2024, she won the junior time trial and road race double at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich. [3] [30] Ferguson then clinched her first one day race win, taking victory in the Binche Chimay Binche pour Dames. [31]

2025

She won the British under-23 women's national title and finished runner-up to Xan Crees in the elite women's race at the British Cyclocross National Championships in Gravesend in January 2025. [32]

Major results

Cyclo-cross

2022–2023
Junior National Trophy Series
1st Derby
1st Broughton Hall
1st Junior Andover
4th UEC European Junior Championships
2023–2024
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg National Junior Championships
UCI World Championships
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Junior race
2nd Silver medal europe.svg UEC European Junior Championships
2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
1st Troyes
1st Antwerpen
2nd Dublin
2nd Hoogerheide
3rd Benidorm
Junior Hope Supercross
1st Bradford
1st Houghton Le Spring
Junior National Trophy Series
1st Thornton in Craven
2024–2025
2nd National Championships

Road

2023
National Junior Championships
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg Time trial
3rd Road race
UCI World Junior Championships
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Road race
10th Time trial
1st Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda
1st Tour of Flanders Juniors
3rd Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
1st Jersey orange.svg Points classification
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
2nd Overall Bizkaikoloreak
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
5th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
2024 (2 pro wins)
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road race
1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial
National Junior Championships
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg Road race
2nd Time trial
1st Jersey white.svg Overall Bizkaikoloreak
1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Jersey red.svg Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
1st Jersey orange.svg Points classification
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Binche–Chimay–Binche
1st East Cleveland Classic
1st Stage 1 Tour de la Semois
2nd Lincoln GP
2nd La Choralis Fourmies
2nd Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda
2nd Tour of Flanders Juniors
3rd Otley GP
7th GP Stuttgart & Region

Track

2023
UEC European Junior Championships
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Omnium
3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit
2024
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Carys Lloyd)
3rd Scratch, National Championships

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