Thomas Pidcock

Thomas Pidcock
	Thomas Pidcock (2017)
To person
Date of birth	July 30, 1999
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Cross-country / street / train
To the team
Current team	Team Wiggins Le Col
Most important successes
	UCI Road World Championships (U23) 2019 - road race Cyclocross world championships 2017 - Juniors 2019 - U23 2020 - Elite
	Last updated: September 27, 2019

Pidcock in the individual time trial of the 2017 Road World Championships, which he won

Thomas Pidcock (* thirtieth July 1999 in Leeds ) is a British cyclist who in road cycling as well as cross-country race and track cycling is active. In 2017 he became junior world champion in road racing and cross-country.

Athletic career

Shortly before his 16th birthday, Thomas Pidcock started at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi in 2015 . In 2016 he finished fifth among the juniors at the Cyclo-cross World Championships . In the same year he was junior European champion in cyclo-cross racing.

2017 was extremely successful for the versatile athlete: he became junior world champion in the cyclo- cross race , took third place in the overall junior World Cup and first place in the UCI junior ranking . He was also U23 Vice European Champion and British Junior Champion. In the same year he won the second world title when he at the road world championships , the individual time trial decided for themselves. He also won the prestigious junior road races Paris – Roubaix and GP Rüebliland . The following year he won the overall U23 World Cup in cyclo-cross, was U23 European and national champions.

Thomas Pidcock has been driving on the road for Team Sky since 2018, and in the cyclo-cross race for Team Telenet Fidea Lions until August 2018 . He then switched to the newly founded team TP Racing , which bears his initials.

In 2019 Pidcock won the title in the U23 category at the 2019 Cyclocross World Championships in Bogense, Denmark . At the UCI Road World Championships in 2019 , he finished fourth in front of a home crowd in Yorkshire , which he was very disappointed with. But since the first at the finish, the Dutchman Nils Eekhoff , was disqualified, Pidcock was awarded the bronze medal. After last year's success with the U23, he won silver at the 2020 cyclocross world championships in Dübendorf , Switzerland, at the age of 20.