Ethan Vernon

Ethan Vernon (born 26 August 2000) is a British road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .

Career Early career Vernon competed in BMX until he was 14, before changing focus to the road and track. In 2017 and 2018, he won a total of five national junior track titles. He also won the silver medal in the individual pursuit at the 2018 UCI World Junior Championships. He represented Wales at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in three events, finishing fourth in the team pursuit. He also competed for Great Britain in the team pursuit at the 2018–19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, where the squad placed third in London. In 2020, he took his first major podium at the elite level, taking silver in the kilometer time trial at the European Championships.

In 2021, he was selected for the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where the team placed 8th in final. That year, the team also placed third at the UCI World Championships.

Vernon also took his first significant road win in 2021, winning the fourth stage of the Tour de l'Avenir in a sprint finish. A month later, he placed seventh in the World Under-23 Time trial Championships.

2022–present In 2022, he joined on a two-year contract. In March, he won the fifth stage of the Volta a Catalunya, his first professional win. Vernon next took back-to-back wins at the Okolo Slovenska in September, taking the prologue and first stage.

In January 2023, Vernon won the Trofeo Palma, his second race of the season. A month later, he won the first two stages of the Tour du Rwanda followed by the first stage of the Tour de Romandie in April. In early August, he returned to the track, taking his first elite World Championships title in the elimination race. A few weeks later, he returned to road racing, taking the prologue of the Deutschland Tour.

He signed a three-year contract with starting in 2024. In 2024, he won his first race of the year: the opening stage of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes in February. In May, he entered his first Grand Tour: the Giro d'Italia.

At the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he won a gold medal in the team pursuit, and a bronze in the scratch race.

Major results Road

2019 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships 2021 1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Avenir 7th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships 10th Trofeo Alcudia–Port d'Alcudia 2022 (3 pro wins) Okolo Slovenska 1st Prologue & Stage 1 1st Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya 5th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré 2023 (5) 1st Trofeo Palma Deutschland Tour 1st Points classification 1st Prologue Tour du Rwanda 1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie 2nd Trofeo Ses Salines–Alcúdia 5th Time trial, National Championships 6th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 2024 (3) Tour of Guangxi 1st Points classification 1st Stages 3 & 4 1st Stage 1 Tour des Alpes-Maritimes 1st Points classification, Tour of Britain 3rd Time trial, National Championships 2025 (1) 1st Stage 2 Volta a Catalunya National Championships 3rd Road race 4th Time trial 4th Bredene Koksijde Classic 5th Binche–Chimay–Binche Vuelta a España Held after Stage 1 2026 (4) Région Pays de la Loire Tour 1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Stage 4 Volta a Catalunya 1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under 4th Time trial, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia DNF — DNF Tour de France — — Vuelta a España — 142

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

2017 National Junior Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Points race 1st Kilo 3rd Scratch 3rd Madison, National Championships (with William Tidball) 2018 National Junior Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Madison (with William Tidball)

National Championships 2nd Madison (with Rhys Britton) 3rd Team pursuit 2019 2nd Team pursuit, National Championships 2020

National Championships 2nd Team pursuit 3rd Scratch 2021

2022 UCI World Championships 1st Team pursuit

2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow 2023 1st Elimination, UCI World Championships

2024 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships 1st Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Milton

2026 Commonwealth Games