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| Full name | Catrin Ferguson[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2006-04-27)27 April 2006 (age 19)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb)[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Movistar Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| -2022 | Team Storey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Shibden Hope Tech Apex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2024 | Movistar Team(Stagiaire) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Movistar Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Catrin "Cat" Ferguson[5] (born 27 April 2006) is a Britishracing cyclist, competing acrossroad,cyclo-cross andtrack racing disciplines. She is a four-time World Junior Champion, holding four titles across two disciplines, all won in 2024. She is the2024 Junior Track Cycling World Champion in both the team pursuit and the omnium, and the2024 Junior Road Cycling World Champion in both the time trial and road race.[6][7] She was the first cyclist to win the World Junior road double since compatriotZoe Bäckstedt.[8] Ferguson additionally won two silver medals at the2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, in the women's junior race and the mixed team relay.[9][10]
In 2024, she joinedMovistar Team as astagiaire before becoming a full-time member of the team in 2025.[11]
FromSkipton in Yorkshire,[12] she attendedSouth Craven High School.[13] 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.[14] She was also a competitive skier, specialising inslalom skiing as a youth.[15]
Ferguson won her first national title, becoming U16 National Female Road Circuit Champion, inRedbridge, London in July 2021.[16] Later that month, Ferguson won her first nationaltrack cycling championship, clinching the U16Madison title alongside her partner Carys Lloyd, inGlasgow.[17]
In January 2022, Ferguson won the British U16s Cyclocross National Championships inCrawley, Sussex.[18]
In August 2022, she and Carys Lloyd retained their U16 National Madison title inNewport.[19]
Ferguson was a double goldmedalist at the2022 European Youth Olympics inBanská Bystrica in July 2022, winning both the road race and time trial.[20] That month, riding for Team Storey, she also won the British National U16 Road Racing title inScarborough.[21]
In February 2023, she was a silver medalist in the junior race at theUEC European Cyclo-cross Championships inTábor.[22] Ferguson won a silver medal in the team relay at the2023 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships inHoogerheide in a team that includedAnna Kay andZoe Backstedt.[23]
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 thePiccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda aged 16 years-old. She then won the junior edition2023 Tour of Flanders for Women, and the juniorBritish Time Trial title, in 2023. She also finished sixth at the juniorCyclo-cross World Championships.[24][25]
Ferguson won a silver medal in the junior women's road race at the2023 UCI World Road Championships in Glasgow in August 2023.[26]
In November 2023, Ferguson won a silver medal in the Mixed Team Relay at the European Cyclo-cross Championships, alongsideCameron Mason,Anna Kay, Dan Barnes, Oscar Amey, and Imogen Wolff.[27] She later won a second silver medal at the championships, in the junior women's race.[28]
In late 2023 it was announced that Ferguson will joinMovistar Team in 2024 as astagiaire before becoming a full-time professional on a three-year contract.[11] She continued to race for her British junior team Shibden Hopetech Apex during the 2023–24 winter but attended Movistar training camps while working with their performance team.[29]
In January 2024, Ferguson won the junior national title at the British Cyclo-cross Championships.[30] At the2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships Ferguson won silver in both the Women's junior race and the team relay.[9][10]
She won two gold medals at the2024 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships inLuoyang, China. As part of the British women's team pursuit team alongsideImogen Wolff,Carys Lloyd andErin Boothman she set a new world record time of 4:20.811 to beat France in the final. She also won the women's omnium race at the Championships in August 2024.[6]
Following wins in the British junior road race[31] and in Bizkaikoloreak,[32] Ferguson made her first start as aMovistar rider in the 2024 La Choralis Fourmies Féminine, finishing second toSilvia Zanardi in a bunch sprint.[33]
In September 2024, she won the junior time trial and road race double at the2024 UCI Road World Championships inZurich.[7][34] Ferguson then clinched her first one day race win, taking victory in the Binche Chimay Binche pour Dames.[35]
She won the British under-23 women's national title and finished runner-up toXan Crees in the elite women's race at the British Cyclocross National Championships inGravesend in January 2025.[36] In January 2025 inLievin, France she was a member of the British team which won the gold medal in the mixed team relay at theUCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[37] The team, comprising Ferguson, Zoe Bäckstedt,Milo Wills,Thomas Mein,Oscar Amey, andZoe Roche became the first British team to win gold in the event.[38]
On the road, Ferguson joined the Movistar team full time,[39] finishing 3rd atTrofeo Alfredo Binda in her firstUCI Women's World Tour race.[40] Later that year, Ferguson wonClasica Femenina Navarra in a sprint finish.[41] In June, Ferguson took her first UCI Women's World Tour stage win at theTour of Britain Women,[42] finishing the race 2nd overall and taking the points and young rider classifications.[43]
National Junior Championships
Team relayJunior race
UEC European Junior Championships
Team relay,UCI World ChampionshipsTime trialRoad race
Points classification
Young rider classification Young rider classification Young rider classificationRoad raceTime trialRoad race Overall Bizkaikoloreak
Mountains classification
OverallEPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors Points classification
Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie Points classification Young rider classification Omnium
Team pursuit Team pursuit Omnium
Madison,UEC European Junior Championships (with Carys Lloyd)
