Tom Pidcock

Pidcock came out of Leeds racing cyclo-cross and mountain bikes alongside the road, and gave none of them up. He won the junior cyclo-cross world title in 2017, the first British rider to take it since Roger Hammond in 1992, and the junior road time trial at the world championships in Bergen the same year. The under-23 cyclo-cross rainbow jersey followed in 2019.

He joined INEOS Grenadiers for 2021 and won the Brabantse Pijl in his first spring with the team, then the Olympic cross-country mountain bike title in Tokyo that summer. In 2022 he took the elite cyclo-cross world championship at Fayetteville, the first British man to win it, and the Tour de France stage to Alpe d'Huez on Bastille Day. INEOS put him on a five-year deal that year.

The mountain bike world title came at Glasgow in 2023. In 2024 he won the Amstel Gold Race and defended the Olympic cross-country title in Paris, recovering from a puncture to pass Victor Koretzky on the last lap.

Relations with INEOS broke down over the course of 2024. Pidcock said publicly that he had been deselected from the team's line-up, and in December it was confirmed he would leave with the five-year deal still running. He moved from a WorldTour squad to Q36.5, a ProTeam that reaches the biggest races on wildcard invitations rather than by right.

His first race for the new team was the AlUla Tour in 2025, where he won two stages and the overall. He was second to Tadej Pogačar at Strade Bianche in March, and in the autumn finished third at the Vuelta a España behind Jonas Vingegaard and João Almeida for his first Grand Tour podium. He raced no cyclo-cross in either the 2024-25 or 2025-26 winter.