Fred Wright

Alfred Brockwell Wright (born 13 June 1999) is a British racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .

Career Originally from south east London, Wright moved to Manchester at the age of 18 to join the British Cycling Senior Academy, with a focus on the track.

In November 2019 it was announced that Wright was joining the team, later renamed as for the 2020 season. At the Vuelta he placed fourth on the fifteenth stage of the race.

2022 Vuelta and controversy At the 2022 Vuelta a España, Wright scored, via sprint finishes and breakaways, seven top-10 stage results, including three top-3 results, but did not manage to win a stage. During the race he was the subject of controversy: during the closing kilometres of Stage 16, a small group of four, including Wright, followed Primož Roglič, then placed second in the General Classification, as he attacked out of the peloton. As the lead quintet sprinted for the win, Roglič collided with Wright, causing the former to crash heavily while the latter was able to stay upright. Roglič crossed the line with several cuts on his right side. Two days later, Roglič issued a statement via his team: “My conclusion is that the way this crash happened is unacceptable. Not everyone saw it correctly. The crash was not caused by a bad road or a lack of safety but by a rider's behaviour. I don't have eyes on my back. Otherwise, I would have run wide. Wright came from behind and rode the handlebars out of my hands before I knew it." This statement was criticised by other riders and teams. Roglič's fellow Slovene Matej Mohorič defended Wright, saying "It's not appropriate and it's not fair to make a statement like that toward Fred [...] I think if you ask the peloton, everyone will tell you that Primož is more eager to push for position than Fred. We know that Primož crashes a lot and this is not the first time this happened."

2023

On 25 June 2023, Wright earned his first professional victory, winning the elite men's race at the British National Road Race Championships, three days after a silver medal in the elite men's time trial.

2024 Wright made his Olympic debut on 3 August 2024, selected by British Cycling to represent Great Britain at the Paris Olympics in the men's road race, finishing 43rd.

Personal life His father is actor Philip Wright. As of 2021, Wright lived in Manchester, sharing a house with fellow racing cyclist Ethan Hayter.

Major results Road

2016 1st Overall Junior Tour of Wales 5th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg 1st Young rider classification 2017 3rd Overall Junior Tour of Wales 1st Mountains classification 2018 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships 2nd Overall Ronde de l'Oise 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3 5th Road race, National Championships 7th Overall Paris–Arras Tour 2019 1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stage 7 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia 3rd Overall Paris–Arras Tour 5th Time trial, National Under-23 Championships 2021 1st Road race, National Under-23 Championships National Championships 2nd Road race 4th Time trial 10th Eschborn–Frankfurt 2022 Commonwealth Games

5th Road race 7th Tour of Flanders Vuelta a España Held after Stage 5 2023 (1 pro win) National Championships 1st Road race 2nd Time trial 8th Tour of Flanders 2024 3rd Overall CRO Race 2025 4th Overall Renewi Tour 4th Overall Tour de la Provence 6th Hamburg Cyclassics 7th Coppa Bernocchi 7th Tour du Finistère 8th Tro-Bro Léon 9th Paris–Roubaix 10th Milan–San Remo 2026 (1) 1st Road race, National Championships 2nd Rund um Köln 2nd Grand Prix Criquielion 9th Tro-Bro Léon

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia — — — — — — Tour de France — 96 55 92 DNF 104 Vuelta a España 91 — 67 — — —

Monuments results timeline Monument 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Milan–San Remo — 148 — 79 3010 52 Tour of Flanders DNF 11278 50 23 74 Paris–Roubaix NH 51 99 DNF 129 131 Liège–Bastogne–Liège — — — — — — — Giro di Lombardia — — — — — — —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

2015 1st Madison, National Junior Championships (with Ethan Hayter) 2016 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships 3rd Madison, National Championships (with Jake Stewart) 3rd Madison, National Junior Championships (with Ethan Hayter) 2017 UEC European Junior Championships 1st Omnium

1st Junior Six Days of Berlin (with Jake Stewart) National Junior Championships 2nd Individual pursuit 2nd Madison (with Jacob Vaughan) 2nd Points race 2018 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships National Championships 1st Madison (with Matt Walls) 1st Team pursuit 3rd Points race UCI World Cup 2nd Madison, London (with Matt Walls) 3rd Team pursuit, London 2019 1st Madison, UEC European Under-23 Championships (with Matt Walls) National Championships 1st Madison (with Rhys Britton) 2nd Omnium 2nd Team pursuit 3rd Madison, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong (with Mark Stewart) 2020 2nd Omnium, National Championships