Phoebe Taylor (cyclist)

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Phoebe Taylor
Personal information
Born (2008-07-22) 22 July 2008 (age 17) [1]
Team information
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeTime Trial / All Rounder
Amateur team
2025-Shibden Apex RT
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2025 ApeldoornMadison
European Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Anadia Team pursuit

Phoebe Taylor (born 22 July 2008) is a British track cyclist. She was a double gold medalist at the 2025 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships and also was a gold medalist at the European Junior Track Cycling Championships in 2025.

Career

From Inskip, Lancashire, Taylor began cycling in Preston with Red Rose Olympic CC. She joined Eastlands Velo CC in 2019. [2] [3]

She set a junior track world record and won the gold medal at the 2025 European Junior Championships in Portugal in the Team Pursuit alongside Abi Miller, Evie Smith, Erin Boothman, and Arabella Blackburn, beating Italy in the final, and in doing so setting a junior world record with a time of 4:20:376. [4] [5]

Taylor won the gold medals in the Madison, alongside Boothman, and in the team pursuit with Abi Miller, Arabella Blackburn, Evie Smith and Boothman at the 2025 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in August 2025. [6]

References

  1. "Pheobe Taylor". Procyclingstats. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  2. Bainbridge, Megan (17 September 2025). "Inskip cyclist Phoebe Taylor crowned double Junior World Champion". Blog Preston. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  3. "The rising British cycling star from Preston with a 'drive to get on the podium'". ITV. 23 September 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  4. Abbott, Will (23 July 2025). "York teenage cycling sensation sets junior world record". York Press. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  5. "10 European Champions to Represent Great Britain at 2025 UCI Junior Track World Championships". British Cycling. 13 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  6. 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.