Cat Ferguson Explained

Cat Ferguson
Birth Date:	27 April 2006^[1]
Currentteam:	Shibden Hope Tech Apex
Role:	Rider
Amateuryears1:	-2022
Amateurteam1:	Team Storey
Amateuryears2:	2022–2024
Amateurteam2:	Shibden Hope Tech Apex
Proyears1:	2024
Proteam1:	(Stagiaire)
Show-Medals:	no

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,^[2] she attended South Craven High School.^[3] 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.^[4] She was also a competitive skier, specialising in slalom skiing as a youth.^[5]

Career

2021

Ferguson won her first national title, becoming U16 National Female Road Circuit Champion, in Redbridge, London in July 2021.^[6] Later that month, Ferguson won her first national track cycling championship, clinching the U16 Madison title alongside her partner Carys Lloyd, in Glasgow.^[7]

2022

In January 2022, Ferguson won the British U16s Cyclocross National Championships in Crawley, Sussex.^[8]

In August 2022, she and Carys Lloyd retained their U16 National Madison title in Newport.^[9]

Ferguson was a double goldmedalist at the 2022 European Youth Olympics in Banská Bystrica in July 2022, winning both the road race and time trial.^[10] That month, riding for Team Storey, she also won the British National U16 Road Racing title in Scarborough.^[11]

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.^[12]

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.^[13] ^[14]

Ferguson won a silver medal in the junior women's road race at the 2023 UCI World Road Championships in Glasgow in August 2023.^[15]

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.^[16] She later won a second silver medal at the championships, in the junior women's race.^[17]

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.^[18] 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.^[19]

2024

In January 2024, Ferguson won the junior national title at the British Cyclo-cross Championships.^[20] At the 2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships Ferguson won silver in both the Women's junior race and the team relay.