Ethan Vernon

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

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.

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.

That month, he also announced that 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.

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 (1)
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour des Alpes-Maritimes
 * 3rd Time trial, National Championships

Track

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


 * 2018
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with William Tidball)
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Individual pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
 * National Championships
 * 2nd Madison (with Rhys Britton)
 * 3rd Team pursuit


 * 2019
 * 2nd Team pursuit, National Championships


 * 2020
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Kilo, UEC European Championships
 * National Championships
 * 2nd Team pursuit
 * 3rd Scratch


 * 2021
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships


 * 2022
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Elimination
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
 * 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow


 * 2023
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Elimination, UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships


 * 2024
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
 * 1st Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Milton