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Meet the 34 British riders in the men’s WorldTour in 2025
British riders have been rising in stock within the UCI WorldTour for more than a decade now. This year, we’ll see a new record for British riders on cycling’s top level as the total rises to 34. This makes the UK the seventh most common nationality within the WorldTour’s ranks.
Britain’s place in the peloton has come a long way in two decades when just three British riders were hired by top-level teams. After the creation of Sky Procycling in 2010, the number grew significantly. Since the late 2010s, though, British riders have become hot properties on the transfer market, with the number doubling between 2018 and 2025.
The most common teams for British riders at present are Ineos Grenadiers and EF Education-EasyPost, both with six Brits respectively. Following them, it’s more spread out than it was in the 2010s, with five riders at Visma-Lease a Bike, four at Picnic-PostNL and three at Bahrain Victorious. Thanks to funding programmes such as the Dave Rayner Fund and development teams including Groupama-FDJ’s, Brits have been honing their craft on the Continent over the past decade, giving them a better chance of a secure contract outside of the traditional British core at Ineos Grenadiers.
As we get stuck into another busy year of WorldTour racing, let’s run through all 34 of the British riders in cycling’s top division, including Grand Tour winners, Olympic champions and teenage superstars. It’s a lengthy list, and doesn’t even include the one name who’s arguably been in the news more than any other British rider recently – Tom Pidcock, who’s now on the books of non-WorldTour outfit Q36.5 Cycling.
Josh Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers)
Welsh time-trial specialist Josh Tarling has become a protected rider at Ineos within the short two-year stint he’s spent at the WorldTour level. The 20-year-old shot to prominence on the track before jumping up to the WorldTour level on the road in 2023. That same year, Tarling won a bronze medal at the World Championships on the elite level, then a gold at the European Championships. Closing out 2023, he defeated Remco Evenepoel at the one-day time-trial event Chrono des Nations.
In 2024, he made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España and he’s rumoured to be starting the Giro d’Italia for the first time this May. Tarling wants to target Paris-Roubaix in 2025 too, having made his debut last year; the Welshman will hope to emulate fellow time-triallist Fabian Cancellara who took three wins in Roubaix.
Tarling is a real thoroughbred time-triallist. He’s already left his mark and he’s sure to become one of the biggest names against the clock in the decade to come.
- Read our Q&A with Josh Tarling
Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers)
Geraint Thomas is the oldest British rider on the WorldTour. He’s been in the pro loop since 2005 and has been on the WorldTour since joining Sky back in 2010. The Welsh rider has been a perennial figure for British cycling fans, having raced on the track through the 2000s before switching to the road in the 2010s. Classics wins, stage races and a Tour de France victory have all been scooped up during Thomas’s twenty-year career within the pro peloton.
Despite turning 38 last May, Thomas vowed to remain in the pro peloton for one more season. He’s still competing at the top too, as he has reached a Grand Tour podium every year since 2022, including a hard-fought third spot at last year’s Giro d’Italia.
Geraint Thomas has already kicked off his 2025 calendar with a block of racing in Australia. He’s set to retire at the end of the season, but is expected to compete in the Tour de France one last time in July.
- Read our 2024 interview with Geraint Thomas
Ben Turner (Ineos Grenadiers)
Ben Turner started his cycling career as a cyclocross rider. Having made the podium at the junior World Championships in 2017, he moved to Belgium to race for a Flemish cyclocross team during the winter. After the pandemic, Ineos sealed his signature and brought him into their Classics arsenal.
The Doncaster-born rider only has one pro win to his name so far, but his support has been immense for Ineos in both the Classics and stage races. Known to his teammates as ‘The Clock’ – a reference to Big Ben (which is, famously, the bell and not the clock), Turner has become a mainstay of Ineos’s Tour squad in recent years, having started as a lead domestique in both 2023 and 2024.
Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers)
Born in Yorkshire to a Manx family, Ben Swift made a splash on the WorldTour scene over a decade ago. At the Tour de Pologne, Tour Down Under and the Tour de Romandie, the Ineos rider took impressive sprint wins during his early 20s. A couple of years later, he finished on the podium of Milan-San Remo and briefly spent some time at UAE Team Emirates before moving back to Ineos in 2019.
After returning, Swift became the British road race champion in 2019 and again in 2021. During his second stint at Ineos, Swift became more versatile, even riding to a top 20 finish overall at the 2020 Giro d’Italia.
Given the departure of Luke Rowe, Swift will be stepping up as the squad’s road captain in 2025.
Connor Swift (Ineos Grenadiers)
Cousin to Ben Swift, Connor has taken a much different path to Ineos Grenadiers.
After lighting up the UK domestic scene in 2017 and 2018, Swift won the British Championships while riding for the Continental squad Madison-Genesis. He soon joined French team Arkéa-Samsic and had a fruitful spell, including a huge win at Tro Bro Léon in 2021, a race that covers its fair share of dirt roads in Brittany.
Swift is also the reigning British gravel champion and finished on the podium of the UCI Gravel World Championships in 2023.
Sam Watson (Ineos Grenadiers)
Another member of Ineos’s Yorkshire contingent, Sam Watson will be making his debut for the team this year after spending a handful of years within the Groupama-FDJ ecosystem.
The 23-year-old previously proved himself as a Classics rider on the under-23 level before jumping up to the WorldTour to take his first pro win at the 2024 Tour de Wallonie.
Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost)
Hugh Carthy made his WorldTour debut in 2017 after spending a couple of years racing in Spain. There’s always been a Spanish connection through Carthy’s palmarès, and this year marks five years since the Englishman made his Vuelta breakthrough with a stage win up the Angliru, which helped him to a third place overall. He’s stuck at it with EF since then and has finished inside the top ten of the Giro’s final GC on two occasions.
The Prestonian struggled throughout 2024. He failed to make it onto a Grand Tour startlist and he was only fielded to one WorldTour stage race. It’s unknown whether Carthy will make his Grand Tour return this year, but he’s already got the ball rolling with some racing in France.
Owain Doull (EF Education-EasyPost)
Cardiff’s Owain Doull rose through the ranks on the track, and he was one of the first riders signed up to Team Wiggins, turning down an offer from Team Europcar in the process. After winning gold in the team pursuit at the Rio 2016 Olympics, however, the Welshman was scooped up by Ineos Grenadiers.
He showed promise in the sprints during his time at Ineos, claiming some stage victories and podium finishes on flatter profiles. Ultimately a lack of Grand Tour appearances drew Doull to a 2022 move to EF Education-EasyPost. Since making the move, he has lined up for three Grand Tours and evolved into a domestique and lead-out man for Marijn van den Berg.
Lukas Nerurkar (EF Education-EasyPost)
Raised between Ethiopia and Brighton, and godson to Ethiopian athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie, EF’s Lukas Nerurkar is an exciting puncheur to look out for. Having spent his late teens at Trinity Racing, the British development team led by Andrew McQuaid, Nerurkar’s strong 2023 moved him onto the radar of potential WorldTour teams.
The 21-year-old made a strong impression last year during his neopro season, scoring a number of top tens at WorldTour stages, including the Criterium du Dauphiné and Tour of Poland. He came close to a win at the Dauphiné in particular, with two podium finishes.
Look out for Nerurkar in the Classics. He thrives on uphill finishes and packs a fair sprint. A Grand Tour like the Vuelta would suit the Brit well, however, it’s unknown just yet whether he’ll make his three-week debut in 2025.
Jack Rootkin-Gray (EF Education-EasyPost)
Jack Rootkin-Gray quietly moved onto the WorldTour in 2024. He was part of the British Cycling Academy but was let go in 2022 before joining domestic team Saint Piran, where he excelled and last year signed a big contract with EF, helped by his strong fourth place in the U23 road race at the Glasgow World Championships.
Growing up in Worcestershire, Rootkin-Gray’s first year with EF was somewhat quiet, but he had appearances at the Tour Down Under, Renewi Tour and UAE Tour.
The 22-year-old is an allrounder who can withstand hilly profiles. He’s already got his 2025 underway in Australia, so expect to see his face pop up in stage races later in the calendar.
James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost)
Nottingham-born, Derbyshire raised James Shaw has been chipping away at the WorldTour for some time now. At age 20, he was picked up by Belgian team Lotto following a headline season on the under-23 level. He spent a couple of years there before moving down to the British scene in 2019.
A consistent year with the now-defunct Ribble-Weldtite in 2021 saw Shaw receive a second WorldTour contract, this time with EF Education-EasyPost. This partnership got to work right away with some solid domestique efforts, breakaway chances and a flurry of decent GC results.
Shaw’s a true all-rounder. He’s been at Grand Tours each year since he joined EF in 2022, so expect another appearance or two this year.
Max Walker (EF Education-EasyPost)
23-year-old Manx rider Max Walker (centre) has had a very eventful 12 months. Starting 2024 as a relatively unknown rider on the British scene, he began scooping up race wins while wearing the colours of Astana Qazaqstan’s Development Team.
Two stages at the Tour of Japan, a stage at the Sibiu Tour, a GC podium at the ZLM Tour and two medals at the national championships were the highs of a fruitful 2024. Those breakthrough results rightfully warranted some attention from WorldTour squads, including EF, who won the Manman’x signature at the end of last year.
Walker is a sprinter, and with few fastmen at EF Education-EasyPost, he should get good opportunities in 2025. Who knows? With Cavendish gone, Walker could be the new Manx Missile.
Finlay Pickering (Bahrain Victorious)
Hailing from the outskirts of Hull, Finlay Pickering will be enjoying his second season on the WorldTour this year.
En route to this position, Pickering took a huge win at the under-23 level in 2022 with the overall title at the Tour Alsace, a race formerly won by Tom Pidcock. He left Groupama-FDJ’s development team to move to Trinity Racing for 2023 before finally making the step up to WorldTour with Bahrain Victorious.
The Yorkshireman raced a reduced schedule in 2024 but still managed to climb to 20th place overall at the Tour de Suisse. He’ll be looking to continue his GC development and perhaps return to his plucky breakaway exploits in 2025.
Oli Stockwell (Bahrain Victorious)
Hertfordshire’s Oli Stockwell (right) is another young Brit set to crack the WorldTour this year.
Stockwell began racing in the Home Counties, balancing road and cyclocross. In 2022, he moved to Italy on the back of a Dave Rayner Foundation donation to begin his journey to the WorldTour. Having ridden with CTF Victorious, Bahrain’s low-key development team based in northeastern Italy, Stockwell made his name known on the youth scene last year.
He’s a climber, but with room to become an all-rounder in the years to come. He’s already started his pro career with the week-long AlUla Tour in Saudi Arabia.
Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious)
Fred Wright is just 25 years old, but he’s left a big mark on the WorldTour over the past few seasons. He’s been in contention to win Grand Tour stages, finished top ten at Monuments and has become the national road race champion.
Another former track rider, Londoner Wright was picked up by Bahrain Victorious in 2020, just a year after winning stages at both the Baby Giro and the Tour de l’Avenir. He has remained at the team since moving up onto the WorldTour.
Wright has been on the podium of a Grand Tour stage on four occasions, but so far his only pro win is his national title, but may change soon. Having started the Tour de France for the past three years, we can expect him to be back there this summer.
- Read our Q&A with Fred Wright
Simon Carr (Cofidis)
Born in Hereford to Welsh parents but raised in southwestern France, Simon Carr has become a breakaway specialist during his tenure within the WorldTour peloton.
He moved up to the WorldTour in 2021 with EF and made his Grand Tour debut that same year at the Giro d’Italia. He has a particular affiliation with the Tour of the Alps, having won a stage there in both 2023 and 2024. In addition, Carr claimed an overall win at the Malaysian stage race Tour de Langkawi, solidifying his status as a well-drilled climber.
Carr signed a three-year deal with Cofidis in the off-season. This will see him return to a French team, having grown up in France and spent his developmental years on the French scene. He is currently on the longlist for Cofidis’s Tour de France squad and will play a big role in keeping Cofidis’ WorldTour hopes alive in the fight against relegation.
Oliver Knight (Cofidis)
Oli Knight, who turned 24 last month, made his way to the WorldTour through the French cycling ecosystem. Knight spent four years riding in Provence, with the occasional four-month stagiaire trial in between. In 2022, it was UAE Team Emirates who gave the Englishman a taste of the WorldTour before Cofidis did the same in 2023. The French team rolled the dice and took the Bedfordshire rider onto their books full-time in 2024.
The British all-rounder rode a mixed programme last year. He rode a couple of WorldTour races along the way, but this year he hopes to make a strong impression in order to stay on the roster for 2026.
Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ)
Lewis Askey has been nestled within French team Groupama-FDJ for a while now. Having moved from the West Midlands to join the development squad, he climbed his way up the ladder to the WorldTour team in 2022.
Naturally for a winner of the Junior Paris-Roubaix, Askey has been slotted into a Classics role. In this position, he has podium finishes at Paris-Tours and the Classic Loire Atlantique, and he finished second in the British national road race in 2024. As for 2025, he will be targeting the Classics during this opening phase of the calendar.
Matt Walls (Groupama-FDJ)
Matt Walls is another graduate of the British track programme. The Oldham-born rider was well-embedded in the track scene, and won a gold medal in the omnium at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The same year as his Olympic glory, he signed for Bora-Hansgrohe and won the Gran Piemonte and a stage at the Tour of Norway. After a freak crash at the Commonwealth Games, Walls’s WorldTour appearances for Bora dried up and he moved to Groupama-FDJ.
Walls has returned to form in 2025 already. He cracked the podium on a stage of the Tour Down Under last month and he’s been getting familiar with the top ten again. He’ll be riding a more WorldTour-focussed schedule this year, but a Grand Tour appearance is TBC.
Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl-Trek)
Tao Geoghegan Hart is the only British rider on Lidl-Trek’s men’s team. He took a surprise win at the 2020 Giro d’Italia, winning two stages along the way as well as the white jersey. Since then, his form has ebbed and flowed due to a string of injuries, including one that ruled him out of the 2023 Giro when he looked to be returning to his top level.
He moved from Ineos Grenadiers to Lidl-Trek at the beginning of 2024, rounding out an almost decade-long stint with the British team. During his debut season with the Lidl-Trek, the Londoner struggled to reach his former heights. His only GC top ten came at the Tour de Suisse and his sole Grand Tour appearance was somewhat muted at the Vuelta.
He’ll be looking to put this behind him in 2025 and he’s set to be back in action soon at the Volta ao Algarve as part of a calendar that will hopefully see him take to the Tour de France for the first time since 2021.
- Read our Q&A with Tao Geoghegan Hart
James Knox (Soudal-QuickStep)
Cumbrian James Knox has become a fixture at Soudal-QuickStep. Having ridden for the team since 2018, he’s familiar with the Belgian team’s setup.
Knox, who’s a pure climber, narrowly missed out on a top ten at the Vuelta in 2019 and finished inside the top 15 at the Giro the following year. He is often fielded to Italian races, favouring the Giro over the Tour.
He has been slotted into Soudal-QuickStep’s ever-growing mountain train as part of the squad’s GC pivot. He’ll likely follow a similar programme to Remco Evenepoel in 2025 as part of the Belgian’s preparation for the Tour de France. As for Knox, he’ll be riding either the Giro or Vuelta.
- Read our Q&A with James Knox
Ethan Hayter (Soudal-QuickStep)
Ethan Hayter is another rider with a track background. At the age of 17, he became both European and World Champion on the track. He followed this up with a handful of rainbow jerseys in the omnium and team pursuit, and topped that all off with two Olympic silver medals.
With the next Olympics three years away, Hayter is looking to focus on the road in 2025 and 2026. He’s previously thrived across several disciplines, including sprinting and time-trialling. He’s won three stages at the Tour de Romandie and has won both the Tour of Norway and the Tour de Pologne overall.
After spending five seasons at Ineos, Hayter switched teams in the off-season and now rides for Soudal-QuickStep. You can spot him in the red, white and blue bands of British Champion in 2025.
Bob Donaldson (Jayco-AlUla)
Bob Donaldson is one of two new British additions to Jayco-AlUla.
Having spent four years in the under-23 circuit, Donaldson has been building up to his big WorldTour break. Last year, he finished runner-up at Paris-Roubaix Espoirs and claimed the U23 national title. A series of top tens on sprint finishes at stage races also caught the attention of WorldTour scouts and Donaldson was soon snapped up by Jayco-AlUla.
The Mancunian hopes to develop into a Classics rider. It’s unknown what his schedule will look like come spring, but he’s already played his part at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana in Spain.
Paul Double (Jayco-AlUla)
Paul Double has had an atypical pathway to the WorldTour, at least for a British rider. In 2017, Double moved to Italy to immerse himself in its domestic scene. A couple of years later, he was climbing through the continental ranks before signing for China Glory (a Chinese team, unsurprisingly) in 2022.
He impressed for China Glory, with a top ten overall at the Tour of Slovenia, which was won by Tadej Pogačar. He was soon picked up by Human Powered Health until the men’s team folded at the end of 2023, then receiving a last minute contract from Italian team Polti-Kometa. Yet another solid year of GC performances warranted extra attention and a WorldTour contract soon came his way.
This year, the 28-year-old will be making his WorldTour debut with Jayco-AlUla. He’s already raced in the Middle East, supporting Chris Harper at the Tour of Oman.
Sean Flynn (Picnic-PostNL)
Sean Flynn is another Scottish rider in the WorldTour. Born in Edinburgh, he started racing through cyclocross and mountain biking. He became the junior British Champion in both disciplines, but he eventually switched his focus to the road in 2021 after signing for SEG Racing Academy, one of the most prestigious youth teams in Europe. Proving himself as a solid sprinter during his time at SEG and then Tudor Pro Cycling’s development squad, Flynn signed a contract with Team DSM, now Picnic-PostNL.
At the WorldTour level, Flynn has specialised as a hardy sprinter. He was awarded a spot at the 2023 Vuelta a España and wore the polka-dot jersey for one stage. In 2024, he made steady progress in the sprints, particularly at flatter stage races like the Tour of Denmark and Tour of Britain.
The Scotsman has already reached the podium in 2025 at the Tour of Oman. His sprinting will hopefully see him pick up more top tens during 2025.
Bjoern Koerdt (Picnic-PostNL)
The newest British rider on the block at Picnic-PostNL, Yorkshire-born rider Bjoern Koerdt began racing at age five. Fifteen years on, he’ll be making his WorldTour debut in 2025.
Koerdt is another Dave Rayner Foundation alumni, having raced in France as a teenager. After a successful couple of seasons with French team CC Étupes, he was scooped up by Picnic-PostNL and funnelled into their development programme before receiving a promotion this year.
If you’re wondering where his name comes from, Koerdt’s father Lars is half-Swedish and half-German.
Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL)
Scottish rider Oscar Onley excelled in the Scottish circuit and secured a contract with AG2R’s development team before switching to Team DSM in 2021.
He became a revelation of the 2024 season, beginning the year with a victory atop Willunga Hill at the Tour Down Under. He continued this form into week-long stage races and secured a place on DSM’s Tour de France roster, where he impressed in the breakaway. Soon after that he delivered a memorable performance at the World Championships, finishing as the best British rider on the day.
After this landmark season, the Kelso-born rider will be aiming for stage glory at the Tour de France. If he does, he’ll be the first Scottish rider in 13 years to do so. His strengths lie in the mountains, so GC top tens and summit finales will be of interest.
Max Poole (Picnic-PostNL)
Max Poole of Picnic-PostNL first caught headlines in 2023 when he narrowly missed out on a podium finish overall at the Tour de Romandie. The Scunthorpe-born rider was punching above his weight for a 20-year-old, but he soon solidified his promise with a top 15 at the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Poole cracked the top 100 of the UCI rankings last year with strong results at the UAE Tour, Vuelta a Burgos and an overall victory at the Tour de Langkawi, but his proper breakthrough was an impressive Vuelta display filled with breakaway exploits and stage near-misses.
Poole is on the longlist for two Grand Tour starts in 2025: the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España. Many will be expecting him to crack the top ranks of GC. He’ll be 22 when he starts the Giro in May, so he’ll be eligible to compete for the young riders’ maglia bianca as well.
Matt Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike)
One of the brightest sprinting talents in the under-23 scene, Matthew Brennan has a great future ahead of him. The 19-year-old from County Durham comes from a track background and transitioned onto the road in 2022 with the Fensham Howes-MAS Design squad.
While riding for Visma Lease a Bike’s development squad, he scored a string of one-day wins in Croatia and under-23 races. He claimed a stage of the Giro Next Gen last year and moved up onto the senior team in the winter.
He’s already hit the ground running at the senior team, claiming a runners-up spot on a stage at the Tour Down Under as well as a podium finish in the Schwalbe Classic warm-up race. It’s unlikely that he’ll start a Grand Tour in 2025 given his age and the team’s GC focus, however his bags of confidence and youthful vim are sure to get him some solid results this year.
Tom Gloag (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Tom Gloag is a graduate of the London youth scene and the Trinity Racing squad, a team developed for honing British talent through the early 2020s.
After signing for Jumbo-Visma at the beginning of 2023, Gloag made a big splash on the WorldTour with the senior squad. A top ten at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana was soon backed up by a top ten on a mountain stage of the UAE Tour and 11th overall at the Tour de Romandie. He then went on to make his Grand Tour debut at the 2023 Giro d’Italia as part of Primož Roglič’s race-winning squad.
2024 didn’t quite go to plan however, spending most of the season off the bike, but he returned to racing at the Czech Tour during the summer. There, Gloag took his first pro win atop Dlouhé Stráně.
He kick-started his 2025 in Australia and he seems to be back to his best. He reached the top ten overall at the Tour Down Under and he’ll soon be in the running for another Grand Tour start in 2025.
Dan McLay (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Born in New Zealand but raised in the East Midlands, Dan McLay is a veteran of the pro peloton. Having cut his teeth in Belgium in his early 20s, he secured a spot on Arkéa-Samsic. During his time racing in France, McLay reached internet virality in 2016 thanks to his daredevil sprint victory at the GP de Denain and reached the podium of sprint finishes at the Tour de France.
After a brief stint at EF, McLay rejoined Arkéa in 2020 and became more a lead-out man than a marquee sprinter, and he’ll now be offloading his expertise as a lead-out man within Visma-Lease a Bike.
The Dutch squad will be pairing McLay up with Olav Kooij throughout the season and they’ve already tested out this partnership at the Tour of Oman. Kooij won two stages there with McLay’s guidance, so expect these two to become a double-act throughout 2025.
Ben Tulett (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Kent-born Ben Tulett has made his way around the WorldTour carousel for some time now. Catching attention as a two-time junior cyclocross world champion. He was soon swept up by Alpecin and he started a two-year contract with Mathieu van der Poel’s squad. In 2020, Tulett became the youngest rider in 100 years to finish Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
In 2022, he jumped across to Ineos and made a strong impression during his opening year with the British team, making his Grand Tour debut at that year’s Giro. After another solid year for Ineos, Tulett signed for Visma-Lease a Bike,
Tulett is just 23 years old, but he’s hoping the best is still to come. He hasn’t started a Grand Tour yet for Visma, but he’ll be getting his season going with a string of Italian races through the spring.
Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Born in Bury just to the north of Manchester, Simon Yates began his cycling journey on the track. British Cycling identified his talent early on and signed him up onto the Olympic pipeline. He picked up a world title on the track in 2013 but soon transitioned to the road full-time after receiving a WorldTour contract with GreenEdge (now Jayco-AlUla).
After a brief suspension during 2016, Yates returned to the Grand Tour stage to win a stage at the Vuelta a España. This was just a precursor for a bullish set of Grand Tours towards the end of the 2010s, including a white jersey win at the Tour de France, his fateful 2018 Giro d’Italia rollercoaster and an overall victory at the Vuelta in 2018. More Grand Tour success was to come for Yates, with a set of Tour and Giro stages, a podium finish at the Giro and a fourth overall at the Tour.
2025 marks a new beginning for the former Vuelta champion. He’s left Jayco-AlUla after a decade spent with the team in favour of a new role at Visma-Lease a Bike. He’ll be settling into a super domestique-turned-leader role at the Dutch team, balancing support for Jonas Vingegaard with his own stage race objectives. We’ll see how this unfolds when he begins his season at Tirreno-Adriatico in March.
- Read our profile on Simon Yates
Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
We round out the list with Adam Yates, Britain’s most recent Tour podium finisher and the highest British rider in the 2024 UCI rankings.
Unlike his brother, Adam moved to France to start road racing from a young age. He was picked up by GreenEdge in 2014 and hit the ground running with the Australian team with his first pro win at the elite level coming aged 21 at the Tour of Turkey. The following year, he claimed his first WorldTour win and immediately became one of the hottest young talents in the pro peloton.
He showed his GC promise early on, with top tens at the Giro and Tour during his early 20s. However, he stepped up in the 2020s to take a string of stage race victories, including the UAE Tour, Tour de Romandie, Tour de Suisse and the Volta a Catalunya. After a brief stint at Ineos, Yates moved to UAE Team Emirates to become a super domestique for Tour winner Tadej Pogačar.
While riding for UAE, Yates has enjoyed his best seasons to date with a podium place at the Tour, two Grand Tour stage wins and a brief stint in the maillot jaune. He’s started 2025 where he left off at the Tour of Oman, securing the overall title there to add to his victory from last year.
Yates will be riding both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France in 2025. He’ll tackle the Corsa Rosa as team leader before sacrificing himself for Pogačar on French roads this July.
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