25 Facts About Tom Pidcock

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Thomas Pidcock was born on 30 July 1999 and is a British cyclist who currently competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.

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Tom 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.

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Tom Pidcock finished eight seconds clear of his closest competitor, Adam Toupalik.

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In December, it was announced that Tom Pidcock would ride for WIGGINS in road races in 2018.

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On 26 December 2017, Tom Pidcock won his fourth World Cup race in as many starts, at the Grand Prix Eric De Vlaeminck held at Circuit Zolder.

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Tom Pidcock made a successful transition to another discipline the following month, when he won the Under-23 British National Mountain Biking Championship in Cannock Chase with a sprint from a three-man group at the finish of the race.

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At the 2019 UCI Road World Championships, held on home roads in Yorkshire, Tom Pidcock crossed the finish line of the Under-23 road race in fourth, although this was promoted to third as the initial apparent winner Nils Eekhoff was disqualified.

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Tom Pidcock scored four top ten finishes in the Cyclo-cross World Cup, before claiming the silver medal at the World Championships behind Van der Poel, as well as retaining his British national title.

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In February 2020 it was announced that Tom Pidcock would ride for Trinity Racing on the road as the team would branch out into road racing for the 2020 season, after Wiggins Le Col folded part way through 2019.

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Tom Pidcock stated that he was pleased with his performance and received plaudits from the Team GB's road captain Luke Rowe.

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Tom Pidcock then went to the Mountain Bike World Championships in Leogang where he picked up two rainbow jerseys, winning the e-mountain bike world title with a 35-second lead over the second-placed rider before going on to be crowned under-23 world champion by almost two minutes.

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Tom Pidcock finished ahead of Mathieu van der Poel, Toon Aerts and Eli Iserbyt, who were the only riders to finish within a minute of Pidcock: the latter described his performance as a " of age".

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At the 2021 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Ostend in January, Tom Pidcock narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fourth, despite closing the gap to the third placed Aerts in the closing stages.

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In September 2020 Ineos Grenadiers announced that Tom Pidcock would join them from the 2021 season.

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In January 2021, it was announced that Tom Pidcock was to join the team on 1 February.

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On 14 April 2021 Tom Pidcock won the Brabanste Pijl, beating Wout van Aert and Matteo Trentin in a three-man sprint to take his first professional win, and in the Amstel Gold Race Tom Pidcock came second after a photo finish behind Wout van Aert.

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At the second round of the 2021 Mountain Bike World Cup in Nove Mesto in May, Tom Pidcock took the win, being the only rider who could keep pace with Mathieu van der Poel for the first two laps, before attacking the Dutch rider on the third and crossing the finish line a minute ahead of Van der Poel.

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Tom Pidcock was named in the Ineos Grenadiers squad for the 2021 Vuelta a Espana, which he finished 67th on GC.

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Tom Pidcock was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to cycling.

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Tom Pidcock won his first elite World Cup in Rupchen and took another world cup win in Hulst.

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At the World Championships Tom Pidcock entered as a top favorite with Eli Iserbyt.

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Tom Pidcock was outnumbered by the Belgian team at the front of the race, but rode away to take the win, posing as Superman across the finish line.

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Tom Pidcock recorded a top 5 in Brabantse Pijl, where he had to stay back as his teammate Magnus Sheffield was up the road on a solo attack going for the win.

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Tom Pidcock was named to the Ineos Grenadiers start list for the Tour de France.

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Tom Pidcock's attack succeeded and he claimed what is arguably the biggest stage victory in all of cycling and his name will be added to the permanent memorial of stage winners on one of the signs lining the 21 hairpin turns of the route.

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