Erin Boothman

Erin Boothman (born 24 April 2007) is a Scottish cyclist. She won two gold medals at the 2024 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships and two more at the 2025 edition. Boothman also won three European Junior Track Cycling Championships gold medals in 2025.

Early life From Netherlee in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, she attended Williamwood High School in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire. Both her parents are engineers. She joined her first cycling club around the age of nine. When she was 12 she won a three-stage race in Donegal, Ireland. Also a keen netball player, she joined British Cycling's development pathway as an under-16 rider. She received an unconditional offer to study pharmacy at the University of Strathclyde, but deferred the offer to pursue cycling.

Career She placed second in the under-16 women's category at the British Youth Track Cycling Championships in 2022. The following year she won the National Youth Omnium Championship. She won silver in the time trial at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor.

Alongside Cat Ferguson, Imogen Wolff and Carys Lloyd she won silver in the junior team pursuit at the 2024 UEC European Track Championships in Cottbus in July 2024. 24 hours later she won bronze in the elimination race at the Championships.

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 Cat Ferguson, Carys Lloyd and Imogen Wolff she set a new world record time of 4:20.811 to beat France in the final. She also won the Madison alongside Lloyd at the Championships in August 2024.

She 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 Arabella Blackburn, beating Italy in the final, and in doing so setting a junior world record with a time of 4:20:376. Also at the championships, she won a gold medal in the Madison track cycling event alongside Miller.

Riding for Tofauti Everyone Active, she won the Gent–Wevelgem junior race and Clásica de Jaén in 2025. On the road she also won the junior British time trial title. On the track, she set a world junior record in the 3km individual pursuit at the British Junior Track Championships.

Boothman won the gold medals in the Madison, alongside Phoebe Taylor, and in the team pursuit with Abi Miller, Arabella Blackburn, Evie Smith and Taylor at the 2025 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in August 2025. She competed for Great Britain at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships junior women's road race in Kigali, Rwanda in September 2025. In December 2025, she won the Scottish national 4km individual pursuit title ahead of Arabella Blackburn, her time of 4:34.848 breaking the Scottish record by 18 seconds.

In 2025, she signed a pro contract with to join their development team in 2026 ahead of a move to the elite squad in 2027. Later at the championships, she won the elimination race, finishing ahead of Anna Morris and Katie Archibald. At the 2026 Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong, Boothman won a silver medal in the team pursuit, before winning another silver in the madison with Maddie Leech. Later that month, she won her first professional road race at the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs in Luxembourg. In June, Boothman won the 2026 U23 time trial at the British national championships, with a time that would have placed her third in the senior event.

On 31 July 2026, Boothman won two bronze medals in a single day at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, defeating defending champion Bryony Botha of New Zealand in the bronze medal race in the 4000 m individual pursuit, and in the 10 km scratch race final.

Major results Road 2025 1st Time trial, National Junior Championships 1st Gent-Wevelgem Juniors 1st Clásica de Jaén Juniors 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro della Toscana 5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships 5th Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2026 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

Track

2024 UCI World Junior Championships 1st Madison (with Carys Lloyd) 1st Team pursuit UEC European Junior Championships

2025 UCI World Junior Championships 1st Madison (with Phoebe Taylor) 1st Team pursuit 3rd Scratch, National Championships 2026 National Championships 1st Elimination 3rd Individual pursuit UCI World Cup 2nd Team pursuit, Hong Kong 2nd Madison, Hong Kong (with Maddie Leech) Commonwealth Games