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Ethan Vernon
Vernon in 2024
Personal information
Born (2000-08-26) 26 August 2000 (age 24)
Bedford, England
Height 1.88 m
Weight 74 kg
Team information
Current team Israel–Premier Tech
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Major wins
;Track
World Championships
Elimination (2023)
Team pursuit (2022)

Ethan Vernon (born 26 August 2000) is a British road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Israel–Premier Tech.

Career

Vernon competed in BMX until he was 14, before changing focus to the road and track. In 2017 and 2018, he won a total of five national junior track titles. He also won the silver medal in the individual pursuit at the 2018 UCI World Junior Championships. He represented Wales at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in three events, finishing fourth in the team pursuit. He also competed for Great Britain in the team pursuit at the 2018–19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, where the squad placed third in London. In 2020, he took his first major podium at the elite level, taking silver in the kilometer time trial at the European Championships.

In 2021, he was selected for the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where the team placed 8th in final. That year, the team also placed third at the UCI World Championships.

Vernon also took his first significant road win in 2021, winning the fourth stage of the Tour de l'Avenir in a sprint finish. A month later, he placed seventh in the World Under-23 Time trial Championships.

In 2022, he joined Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team on a two-year contract. In March, he won the fifth stage of the Volta a Catalunya, his first professional win. Vernon next took back-to-back wins at the Okolo Slovenska in September, taking the prologue and first stage.

In January 2023, Vernon won the Trofeo Palma, his second race of the season. A month later, he won the first two stages of the Tour du Rwanda followed by the first stage of the Tour de Romandie in April. In early August, he returned to the track, taking his first elite World Championships title in the elimination race. A few weeks later, he returned to road racing, taking the prologue of the Deutschland Tour.

That month, he also announced that he signed a three-year contract with Israel–Premier Tech starting in 2024. In 2024, he won his first race of the year: the opening stage of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes in February. In May, he entered his first Grand Tour: the Giro d'Italia.

Major results

Road

2019
3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
2021
1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Avenir
7th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
10th Trofeo Alcudia–Port d'Alcudia
2022 (3 pro wins)
Okolo Slovenska
1st Prologue & Stage 1
1st Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya
5th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
2023 (5)
1st Trofeo Palma
Deutschland Tour
1st Jersey green Epic Series.svg Points classification
1st Prologue
Tour du Rwanda
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie
2nd Trofeo Ses Salines–Alcúdia
5th Time trial, National Championships
6th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
2024 (3)
Tour of Guangxi
1st Jersey blue.svg Points classification
1st Stages 3 & 4
1st Stage 1 Tour des Alpes-Maritimes
1st Jersey red.svg Points classification, Tour of Britain
3rd Time trial, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2024
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia DNF
A yellow jersey Tour de France
A red jersey Vuelta a España
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

2017
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Kilo
3rd Scratch
3rd Madison, National Championships (with William Tidball)
2018
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with William Tidball)
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Individual pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
National Championships
2nd Madison (with Rhys Britton)
3rd Team pursuit
2019
2nd Team pursuit, National Championships
2020
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Kilo, UEC European Championships
National Championships
2nd Team pursuit
3rd Scratch
2021
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2022
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Elimination
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow
2023
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Elimination, UCI World Championships
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
2024
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
1st Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Milton
2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
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