Cat Ferguson

Catrin "Cat" Ferguson (born 27 April 2006) is a British professional 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. She was the first cyclist to win the World Junior road double since compatriot Zoe Bäckstedt. 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.

In 2024, she joined as a stagiaire before becoming a full-time member of the team in 2025.

Early life From Skipton in Yorkshire, she attended South Craven High School. 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. She was also a competitive skier, specialising in slalom skiing as a youth.

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

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

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

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. That month, riding for Team Storey, she also won the British National U16 Road Racing title in Scarborough.

2023 In February 2023, she was a silver medalist in the junior race at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Tábor. 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.

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.

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

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. She later won a second silver medal at the championships, in the junior women's race.

In late 2023 it was announced that Ferguson will join in 2024 as a stagiaire before becoming a full-time professional on a three-year contract.

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

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

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. In January 2025 in Lievin, France she was a member of the British team which won the gold medal in the mixed team relay at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. The team, comprising Ferguson, Zoe Bäckstedt, Milo Wills, Thomas Mein, Oscar Amey, and Zoe Roche became the first British team to win gold in the event.

On the road, Ferguson joined the Movistar team full time, finishing 3rd at Trofeo Alfredo Binda in her first UCI Women's World Tour race. Later that year, Ferguson won Clasica Femenina Navarra in a sprint finish. In June, Ferguson took her first UCI Women's World Tour stage win at the Tour of Britain Women, finishing the race 2nd overall and taking the points and young rider classifications.

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 National Junior Championships UCI World 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 1st Team relay, UCI World Championships 2nd National Championships

Road

2023 National Junior Championships 1st Time trial 3rd Road race UCI World Junior Championships

10th Time trial 1st Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda 1st Tour of Flanders Juniors 3rd Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 2nd Overall Bizkaikoloreak 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 2 5th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 2 2024 (2 pro wins) UCI World Junior Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial National Junior Championships 1st Road race 2nd Time trial 1st Overall Bizkaikoloreak 1st Mountains classification 1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors 1st Points classification 1st Stage 1 (ITT) 1st 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 2025 (3) 1st Clásica Féminas de Navarra 1st Vuelta a Andalucía 2nd Overall Tour of Britain 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3 2nd Grand Prix Stuttgart & Region 3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda 9th Brabantse Pijl 10th Overall Simac Ladies Tour 2026 (3) 1st Clásica Féminas de Navarra 1st Trofeo Llucmajor 1st Stage 1 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 3rd Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana 4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen

Track 2023 UEC European Junior Championships

2024 UCI World Junior Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Omnium 1st Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Carys Lloyd) 3rd Scratch, National Championships 2025 3rd Points race, National Championships