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 Movistar Team as a Stagiaire before joining them full time in 2025.
Early life
From Skipton in Yorkshire, she attended South Craven High School. 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. She was also a competitive skier, specialising in slalom skiing as a youth.
Career
2021
Ferguson won her first national title, becoming U16 National Female Road Circuit Champion, in Redbridge, London in July 2021. Later that month, Ferguson won her first national track cycling championship, clinching the U16 Madison title alongside her partner Carys Lloyd, in Glasgow.
2022
In January 2022, Ferguson won the British U16s Cyclocross National Championships in Crawley, Sussex.
In August 2022, she and Carys Lloyd retained their U16 National Madison title in Newport.
Ferguson was a double gold
medalist at the 2022 European Youth Olympics in Banská Bystrica in July 2022, winning both the road race and time trial. That month, riding for Team Storey, she also won the British National U16 Road Racing title in Scarborough.
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.
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.
Ferguson won a silver medal in the junior women's road race at the 2023 UCI World Road Championships in Glasgow in August 2023.
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. She later won a second silver medal at the championships, in the junior women's race.
In late 2023 it was announced that Ferguson will join Movistar Team in 2024 as a stagiaire before becoming a full-time professional on a three-year contract. 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.
2024
In January 2024, Ferguson won the junior national title at the British Cyclo-cross Championships.
