Cat Ferguson

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Cat Ferguson
File:Cat Profile Photo Shibden Hope Tech Apex.jpg
Cat Ferguson in 2023
Personal information
Full nameCatrin Ferguson [1]
Born (2006-04-27) 27 April 2006 (age 20)[2]
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) [3]
Weight55 kg (121 lb) [4]
Team information
Current teamMovistar Team
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
  • Cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Amateur teams
-2022Team Storey
2022–2024Shibden Hope Tech Apex
Professional teams
2024Movistar Team (Stagiaire)
2025–Movistar Team
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
Clasica Femenina Navarra (2025)
Medal record
Representing File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Women's track cycling
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Luoyang Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2024 Luoyang Team pursuit
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Cottbus Madison
Silver medal – second place 2023 Anadia Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2024 Cottbus Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Anadia Team pursuit
Women's road bicycle racing
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Zurich Road race
Gold medal – first place 2024 Zurich Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2023 Glasgow Road race
European Youth Summer Olympic Festival
Gold medal – first place 2022 Banská Bystrica Girls' TT
Gold medal – first place 2022 Banská Bystrica Girls' road
Women's cyclo-cross
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2025 Liévin Team relay
Silver medal – second place 2023 Hoogerheide Team relay
Silver medal – second place 2024 Tábor Team relay
Silver medal – second place 2024 Tábor Junior race
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Pontchâteau Junior race
Silver medal – second place 2023 Pontchâteau Team relay

Catrin "Cat" Ferguson [5] (born 27 April 2006) is a British 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.[6][7] She was the first cyclist to win the World Junior road double since compatriot Zoe Bäckstedt.[8] 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.[9][10]

In 2024, she joined Movistar Team as a stagiaire before becoming a full-time member of the team in 2025.[11]

Early life

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From Skipton in Yorkshire,[12] she attended South 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 in slalom skiing as a youth.[15]

Career

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2021

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Ferguson won her first national title, becoming U16 National Female Road Circuit Champion, in Redbridge, London in July 2021.[16] Later that month, Ferguson won her first national track cycling championship, clinching the U16 Madison title alongside her partner Carys Lloyd, in Glasgow.[17]

2022

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In January 2022, Ferguson won the British U16s Cyclocross National Championships in Crawley, Sussex.[18]

In August 2022, she and Carys Lloyd retained their U16 National Madison title in Newport.[19]

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.[20] That month, riding for Team Storey, she also won the British National U16 Road Racing title in Scarborough.[21]

2023

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In February 2023, she was a silver medalist in the junior race at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Tábor.[22] 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.[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 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.[24][25]

Ferguson won a silver medal in the junior women's road race at the 2023 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, alongside Cameron 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 join Movistar Team in 2024 as a stagiaire 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]

2024

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In January 2024, Ferguson won the junior national title at the British Cyclo-cross Championships.[30] At the 2024 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 the 2024 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Luoyang, China. As part of the British women's team pursuit team alongside Imogen Wolff, Carys Lloyd and Erin 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 a Movistar rider in the 2024 La Choralis Fourmies Féminine, finishing second to Silvia Zanardi in a bunch sprint.[33]

In September 2024, she won the junior time trial and road race double at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich.[7][34] Ferguson then clinched her first one day race win, taking victory in the Binche Chimay Binche pour Dames.[35]

2025

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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.[36] 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.[37] 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.[38]

On the road, Ferguson joined the Movistar team full time,[39] finishing 3rd at Trofeo Alfredo Binda in her first UCI Women's World Tour race.[40] Later that year, Ferguson won Clasica Femenina Navarra in a sprint finish.[41] In June, Ferguson took her first UCI Women's World Tour stage win at the Tour of Britain Women,[42] finishing the race 2nd overall and taking the points and young rider classifications.[43]

Major results

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Cyclo-cross

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2022–2023
Junior National Trophy Series
1st Derby
1st Broughton Hall
1st Junior Andover
4th UEC European Junior Championships
2023–2024
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg National Junior Championships
UCI World Championships
2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Junior race
2nd File:Silver medal europe.svg UEC European Junior 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 File:Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay, UCI World Championships
2nd National Championships

Road

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2023
National Junior Championships
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Time trial
3rd Road race
UCI World Junior Championships
2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Road race
10th Time trial
1st Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda
1st Tour of Flanders Juniors
3rd Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
1st File:Jersey orange.svg Points classification
1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
2nd Overall Bizkaikoloreak
1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
5th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
2024 (2 pro wins)
UCI World Junior Championships
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg Road race
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg Time trial
National Junior Championships
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Road race
2nd Time trial
1st File:Jersey white.svg Overall Bizkaikoloreak
1st File:Jersey green.svg Mountains classification
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st File:Jersey red.svg Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
1st File:Jersey orange.svg Points classification
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
1st File:Jersey yellow.svg 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 Clasica Femenina Navarra
1st Vuelta a Andalucía
2nd Overall Tour of Britain
1st File:Jersey red.svg Points classification
1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
2nd Grand Prix Stuttgart & Region
3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
9th Brabantse Pijl
10th Overall Simac Ladies Tour

Track

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2023
UEC European Junior Championships
2nd File:Silver medal europe.svg Omnium
3rd File:Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit
2024
UCI World Junior Championships
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium
1st File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Carys Lloyd)
3rd Scratch, National Championships
2025
3rd Points race, National Championships

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