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The World Tour's youngest riders in 2024 - Three 18-year olds and seven 19-year olds
CyclingWednesday, 10 January 2024 at 12:38
Every year the World Tour gets younger and younger. With teams seeking younger riders to secure the future's stars, more and more we see teenagers at the highest level. Entering the 2024 season, we have 10 riders below 20 years of age spread throughout several teams.
To note, one team is clearly putting more focus into these very young riders and that is INEOS Grenadiers. They have a contract with Andrew August who is only 18 years and 81 days old as the time of writing. Theodor Storm is one of the other three 18-year olds, but the team also has two 19-year olds who are already going on their second year as pro riders in European time-trial champion Joshua Tarling and Michael Leonard.
Markel Beloki of EF Education-EasyPost is the other 18-year old. In the meantime we've got also Jan Christen and António Morgado of UAE Team Emirates, Emil Herzog of BORA - hansgrohe, Paul Magnier of Soudal - Quick-Step and Alexy Faure-Prost of Intermarché - Wanty. It is increasing the amount of riders - both in men's and women's peloton - to reach World Tour straight from the junior ranks.
Youngest riders on the World Tour 2024:
1 AUGUST Andrew INEOS Grenadiers 18y + 81d
2 BELOKI Markel EF Education - EasyPost 18y + 158d
3 STORM Theodor INEOS Grenadiers 18y + 276d
4 HERZOG Emil BORA - hansgrohe 19y + 87d
5 CHRISTEN Jan UAE Team Emirates 19y + 189d
6 FAURE PROST Alexy Intermarché - Wanty 19y + 254d
7 MAGNIER Paul Soudal - Quick Step 19y + 262d
8 LEONARD Michael INEOS Grenadiers 19y + 281d
9 TARLING Joshua INEOS Grenadiers 19y + 320d
10 MORGADO António UAE Team Emirates 19y + 338d
*Ages taken on the 9th January 2024
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