Rider Profile
Tom Pidcock
Ineos Grenadiers
![Tom Pidcock](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SymHnXvpPMiNREBCgnwcrQ-320-80.jpg)
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2023 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2022 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2021 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2018 - Team WIGGINS
Biography:
Tom Pidcock proved himself to be one of the most multi-disciplinary riders of his generation in 2022 when he won both the elite men's UCI Mountain Bike World Championship title in Scotland after earlier in the season winning the UCI Cyclocross World Championship in Arkansas. On the road that same year, Pidcock competed in his first Tour de France and won the stage to Alpe d'Huez by beating four-time Tour winner Chris Froome, and won Strade Bianche and landed podiums in Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Amstel Gold Race.
The Tokyo Olympic Games Cross-country MTB gold medalist, he has at all levels across cyclocross, taking UCI Cyclocross World Championship titles in the junior, under-23 and elite men's races (2017, 2019, 2022, respectively). He also won a men's junior time trial at the UCI Road World Championship in 2017.
Pidcock began his professional cyclocross career with the Telenet team in 2017. After winning the Paris-Roubaix junior men's race the same year, it was clear he would have a brilliant future. He reached an agreement to break his contract with his cyclocross team to join a new team built around him by his management company Trinity Racing.
He raced with the Wiggins-Le Col squad, scoring another Paris-Roubaix victory in the under-23 race before the team folded in 2019, then, racing with Trinity, won three stages and the overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia (Baby Giro) amid the COVID-19 pandemic cancellations. He won the under-23 race at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships as well as the new e-MTB championship.
Ineos Grenadiers signed Pidcock for the 2021 season and he quickly established his promise as a Classics racer, taking podiums in Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne and the Amstel Gold Race, and winning De Brabantse Pijl. He completed his first Grand Tour at the Vuelta a España that year. In the same summer, Pidcock also raced UCI Mountain Bike World Cups, coming from behind to win the round on Nové Mesto and then going on to win the Olympic Games cross country event in the rescheduled games in Tokyo.
Key results
2023
🥇 Strade Bianche
2022
🥇UCI Cyclocross World Championship, elite men
🥇UCI MTB XCO World Championship, elite men
🥈Liège - Bastogne - Liège
2021
🥇 Olympic Games XCO Men in Tokyo
🥇 Tour de France 2022 stage 12 on Alpe d'Huez
🥇 De Brabantse Pijl
🥈 Amstel Gold Race
2020
🥇UCI MTB XCO World Championship, under-23, e-MTB
2019
🥇 UCI Cyclocross World Championships, U23
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![Tom Pidcock measures his efforts against Remco Evenepoel at Liège-Bastogne-Liège](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jDhqhQ4nCw3RK2jiqBy3jk-320-80.jpg)
Pidcock measures effort against Evenepoel to claim first Monument podium at Liège
By Kirsten Frattini published
News 'Remco asked me for a turn, and I said no, then he rode full gas and I got dropped' says Ineos Grenadiers rider
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Liège-Bastogne-Liège contenders - 2 favourites and 8 outsiders
By Patrick Fletcher published
Analysis Analysing Pogacar, Evenepoel, and the riders who might challenge and surprise at La Doyenne
![Tom Pidcock at Flèche Wallonne, with the eventual winner in the background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BaSfVzpGZw6wyWDRVxL8yQ-320-80.jpg)
Tom Pidcock 'not recovered' from Amstel, lacks punch at La Flèche Wallonne
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News 'Pogacar is beatable on Mur de Huy, but I didn't have the strength when it mattered' says Strade Bianche winner
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Who can beat Tadej Pogacar? Favourites and contenders for La Flèche Wallonne
By Alasdair Fotheringham published
Analysis The challengers who could take on the Slovenian on the Mur de Huy - or earlier
![Tom Pidcock worked with Tadej Pogačar in the Amstel Gold Race attack](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ay25TzpwZ5WL6F9YqurRrE-320-80.jpg)
Pidcock finds Amstel Gold Race podium but 'struggled with the distance perhaps'
By Dane Cash published
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![Tom Pidcock, Tadej Pogacar and Neilson Powless are the favourites for the men's Amstel Gold Race](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cdLYGp8S2XNo3vS2KA7NTQ-320-80.jpg)
Amstel Gold Race contenders - 5 favourites and 5 outsiders
By Patrick Fletcher published
Analysis Pogacar starts as the favourite but who can challenge and who can surprise?
![Tom Pidcock (left) missed out on the 2021 Amstel Gold Race in a photo finish](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/r7jA7ZQ9xLwRQEEV44mT5U-320-80.jpg)
Tom Pidcock confirmed for Amstel Gold Race
By Laura Weislo published
News Ineos Grenadiers come with options, defending champion Kwiatkowski
![Tadej Pogačar wins the 2021 edition of LIège-Bastogne-Liège](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eWSdTPgz8MLuv9TiVV2m6F-320-80.jpg)
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By Alasdair Fotheringham published
Preview After his Tour of Flanders dominance, it's hard to see anyone beating the Slovenian on Sunday
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