In 2024, she will ride for Movistar Team as a Stagiaire before joining them full-time in 2025.[7]
Early life
From Skipton in Yorkshire,[8] she attended South Craven High School.[9] 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.[10] She was also a competitive skier, specialising in slalom skiing as a youth.[11]
Career
2021
Ferguson won her first national title, becoming U16 National Female Road Circuit Champion, in Redbridge, London in July 2021.[12] Later that month, Ferguson won her first national track cycling championship, clinching the U16 Madison title alongside her partner Carys Lloyd, in Glasgow.[13]
2022
In January 2022, Ferguson won the British U16s Cyclocross National Championships in Crawley, Sussex.[14]
In August 2022, she and Carys Lloyd retained their U16 National Madison title in Newport.[15]
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.[16] That month, riding for Team Storey, she also won the British National U16 Road Racing title in Scarborough.[17]
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.[23] She later won a second silver medal at the championships, in the junior women's race.[24]
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.[7] 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.[25]
2024
In January 2024, Ferguson won the junior national title at the British Cyclo-cross Championships.[26] At the 2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships Ferguson won silver in both the Women's junior race and the team relay.[5][6]
Following wins in the British junior road race[27] and in Bizkaikoloreak,[28] Ferguson made her first start as a Movistar rider in the 2024 La Choralis Fourmies Féminine, finishing second to Silvia Zanardi in a bunch sprint.[29]
In September 2024, she won the junior time trial and road race double at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich.[3][30] Ferguson then clinched her first one day race win, taking victory in the Binche Chimay Binche pour Dames.[31]
