Cat Ferguson

Cat Ferguson (born 27 April 2006) is a British racing cyclist, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines. A British junior time trial champion, she won the silver medal in the junior road race at the 2023 UCI World Road Championships. In 2024, she will ride for as a Stagiaire before joining them full time in 2025.

Early life
From Skipton in Yorkshire, she attended South Craven High School. 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. She was also a competitive skier, specialising in slalom skiing as a youth.

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

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

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

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

2023
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.

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.

Ferguson won a silver medal in the junior women's road race at the 2023 UCI World Road Championships in Glasgow in August 2023.

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. She later won a second silver medal at the championships, in the junior women's race.

In late 2023 it was announced that Ferguson will join in 2024 as a stagiaire before becoming a full-time professional on a three-year contract. She will continue to race for her British junior team Shibden Hopetech Apex during the 2023–24 winter but will also attend Movistar training camps while working with their performance team.

2024
In January 2024, Ferguson won the junior national title at the British Cyclo-cross Championships. At the 2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships Ferguson won silver in both the Women's junior race and the team relay.

Cyclo-cross

 * 2022–2023
 * Junior National Trophy Series
 * 1st Derby
 * 1st Broughton Hall
 * 1st Junior Andover
 * 4th UEC European Junior Championships


 * 2023–2024
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Junior Championships
 * UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Junior race
 * 2nd 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

Road

 * 2023
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial
 * 3rd Road race
 * UCI World Junior Championships
 * 2nd 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 Young rider classification
 * 1st Points classification
 * 2nd Overall Bizkaikoloreak
 * 1st Young rider classification
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 5th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
 * 1st Young rider classification
 * 1st Stage 2


 * 2024
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race
 * 2nd Time trial
 * 1st Overall Bizkaikoloreak
 * 1st Mountains classification
 * 1st Stages 1 & 2
 * 1st Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
 * 1st Points classification
 * 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
 * 1st Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
 * 1st Stages 1 & 2
 * 2nd Lincoln GP
 * 2nd Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda
 * 2nd Tour of Flanders Juniors

Track

 * 2023
 * UEC European Junior Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Omnium
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit


 * 2024
 * 1st Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Carys Lloyd)
 * 3rd Scratch, National Championships