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Erin Boothman (born 24 April 2007) is a Scottish cyclist. She won two gold medals at the 2024 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships and a third at the 2025 edition.[2] Boothman also won three European Junior Track Cycling Championships gold medals in 2025.
Early life
From Netherlee in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, she attended Williamwood High School in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire.[3] Both her parents are engineers. She joined her first cycling club around the age of nine. When she was 12 she won a three-stage race in Donegal, Ireland. Also a keen netball player, she joined British Cycling’s development pathway as an under-16 rider. She received an unconditional offer to study pharmacy at the University of Strathclyde, but deferred the offer to pursued cycling.[4] She also rode as a member of East Kilbride RC.[5][6]
Career
She placed second in the under-16 women's category at the British Youth Track Cycling Championships in 2022. The following year she won the National Youth Omnium Championship.[7] She won silver in the time trial at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor.[8]
Alongside Cat Ferguson, Imogen Wolff and Carys Lloyd she won silver in the junior team pursuit at the 2024 UEC European Track Championships in Cottbus in July 2024.[9] 24 hours later she won bronze in the elimination race at the Championships.[10]
She won two gold medals at the 2024 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Luoyang, China. As part of the British women's team pursuit team alongside Cat Ferguson, Carys Lloyd and Imogen Wolff she set a new world record time of 4:20.811 to beat France in the final. She also won the Madison alongside Lloyd at the Championships in August 2024.[11]
She set a world junior record and won the gold medal at the 2025 European Junior Championships in Portugal in the Team Pursuit alongside Abi Miller, Evie Smith, Phoebe Taylor, and Arabella Blackburn, beating Italy in the final, and in doing so setting a junior world record with a time of 4:20:376. Also at the championships, she won a gold medal in the Madison track cycling event alongside Miller.[12]
Riding for Tofauti Everyone Active, she won the Gent–Wevelgem junior race and Clásica de Jaén in 2025. On the road she also won the junior British time trial title. On the track, she set a world junior record in the 3km individual pursuit at the British Junior Track Championships.[4]
Boothman won the gold medals in the Madison, alongside Phoebe Taylor, and in the team pursuit with Abi Miller, Arabella Blackburn, Evie Smith and Taylor at the 2025 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in August 2025.[13] She competed for Great Britain at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships junior women’s road race in Kigali, Rwanda in September 2025.[14] In 2025, she signed a pro contract with Liv AlUla Jayco to join their development team in 2026 ahead of a move to the elite squad in 2027.[4]
Major results
Road
- 2025
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Championships - 1st Gent-Wevelgem Juniors
- 1st Clásica de Jaén Juniors
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro della Toscana
- 5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
- 5th Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Track
- 2024
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 1st
Madison (with Carys Lloyd) - 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- UEC European Junior Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit - 3rd
Elimination
- 2nd
- 2025
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 1st Madison (with Phoebe Taylor)
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 3rd Scratch, National Championships
References
- ↑ "Erin Boothman". Procyclingstats. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ "Erin Boothman". First Cycling. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ "Teen reveals Olympic dream as she celebrates exam success". Glasgow Times. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- 1 2 3 Davidson, Tom (22 December 2025). "'I couldn't be happier with how this year has gone' – Meet Erin Boothman, British cycling's rising star". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
- ↑ "Erin takes the world by storm". Scottishcycling.org.uk. 27 August 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ Thomson, Paul (10 October 2019). "East Kilbride Road Club riders enjoy a summer of success". Daily Record.
- ↑ "Williamwood High cyclist awarded for sporting excellence". Barrheadnews. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ "YOUNG STARS IMPRESS IN NEWPORT WITH BOOTHMAN ON LIGHTNING FORM IN MARIBOR". British Cycling. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ "Welsh Cyclists Shine at 2024 European Junior and Under-23 Track Championships in Cottbus". beiciocymru.org. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ "Young Team Impress at the Euros". Scottish Cycling. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ "DAILY UPDATES: 2024 UCI JUNIOR TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Cycling. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ↑ Abbott, Will (23 July 2025). "York teenage cycling sensation sets junior world record". York Press. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
- ↑ Beckett, Adam (26 August 2025). "'I don't think I could have dreamed of a better week' – GB return from Junior Track Worlds with five golds". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
- ↑ "Frustrating Finale for Junior Women's Road Race Squad on Penultimate Day of 2025 UCI Road World Championships". British Cycling. 27 September 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025.