Tom Pidcock
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Pidcock at the 2016 Paris–Roubaix Juniors
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| Full name | Thomas Pidcock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Pidders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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30 July 1999 Otley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| Current team | Telenet–Fidea Lions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Cyclo-cross, road, track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2015–2017 | Great Britain Junior Academy (road, track) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | PH-MAS Oldfield/Paul Milnes Cycles ERT (road, cyclo-cross) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017– | Telenet–Fidea Lions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Thomas "Tom" Pidcock (born 30 July 1999) is a British cyclist, who currently competes in the cyclo-cross, road bicycle racing and track cycling disciplines of the sport. He is best known for winning the junior titles in the European Cyclo-cross Championships at Pontchâteau, France in 2016, the UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships, at Bieles, Luxembourg in 2017 and the UCI World Time Trial Championships at Bergen, Norway in 2017.
After several high-ranking results during the 2015–2016 cyclo-cross season, including a top-five result in the junior race at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships at Circuit Zolder, Pidcock came to prominence in the junior ranks during 2016. In September, Pidcock took a road victory, winning the race by 21 seconds from his closest competitor. Thereafter, Pidcock concentrated on the 2016–2017 cyclo-cross season; in October, Pidcock took a victory in the Superprestige at Zonhoven, just before the European Cyclo-cross Championships at Pontchâteau, France. In the race, Pidcock was able to work his way into the lead on the third of eight laps, and was able to create a gap to the rest of the field, eventually taking the gold medal by 14 seconds clear of France's Nicolas Guillemin.
Thereafter in November, Pidcock was able to claim victories at the Grand Prix van Hasselt, and the Bollekescross DVV Trophy event, as well as a first podium finish in the UCI Junior Cyclo-cross World Cup, with a third in Zeven, Germany. Pidcock took his first win in the competition the following month in Namur, taking the victory around the city's citadel by almost a minute ahead of France's Antoine Benoist; he echoed previous celebrations of Peter Sagan and Mathieu van der Poel by wheelieing across the finish line. The performances had caught the eye of Telenet–Fidea Lions team manager and former world champion Sven Nys, who was looking to sign Pidcock to his team. In the run up to the 2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Pidcock won his first British National Junior Cyclo-cross Championships title in Bradford, and won a second World Cup race in the Grand Prix Adri van der Poel at Hoogerheide, leading teammate Ben Turner home in a 1–2 finish.
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