Cat Ferguson is a female professional cyclist currently racing with Movistar Team. Despite being extremely young, the British rider is one of the most promising riders in the current peloton and also the reigning World Champion both in the road and time-trial at Junior level.
Name: Cat Ferguson
Born: 27th April 2007
Place of birth: Skipton, Great Britain
Turned pro: 2025
Height: 1.66m
InstagramTwitter Cat Ferguson winning the 2024 Junior Road Race World Championships in Zurich. @Sirotti
In cyclocross, Ferguson rode her first Elite World Cup at the age of... 16! She finished 18th in the Dublin World Cup 2022-2023, and in 2023-2024 she split her calendar between the juniors and elites, winning the British junior cyclocross title.
Ferguson is a rider who has reached Junior level on the road in the 2023 season and at only 16 years of age began to impress almost winning the junior's Gent-Weevelgem, and then at age 17 winning the Junior's Tour of Flanders, time-trial national championships, a stage at the Bizkaikoloreak and finishing second in the road race World Championships. At this time she raced for the Shibden Hopetech Apex team, where she would continue in 2024.
Her second and final year as a junior rider was incredibly impressive as she proved to be an absolutely dominant figure in her category, a rider almost above all her peers. The won the East Cleveland Classic, the Omloop van Borsele, the Tour du Gévaudan, the Bizkaikoloreak and the junior road race national championships whilst finishing seecond in the junior's Tour of Flanders. Her immense talent immediately caught attention of Women's World Tour teams and she was at the age of 18 signed as a stagiaire for the Spanish Movistar team where she immediately took her first pro wins.
Leading a team of elite riders, she took her first pro win at the AG Tour de la Semois in a small group sprint. But in Zurich at the World Championships is where she proved that Movistar got an absolute gold mine signed until 2027. Ferguson won the time-trial and then only two days later the road race as well. Now a double World Champion two categories below, she kept racing with Movistar where she won the women's Binche Chimay Binche ahead of some of the best sprinters in the world.