Junior career 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
La Philippe Gilbert Juniors 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
UEC 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 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 Adrie van der Poel at
Hoogerheide, leading teammate
Ben Turner home in a 1–2 finish. With his form, Pidcock entered the World Championships as one of the junior race favourites. On an icy course in
Bieles,
Luxembourg, Pidcock took the lead from France's Maxime Bonsergent on the second lap of the five-lap race, and held onto the lead for the remainder of the race to take the
rainbow jersey, the first British junior to do so since
Roger Hammond in 1992. Pidcock's teammates Dan Tulett and Ben Turner completed the top-three placings, for a British clean sweep of the podium. Such was his performance, that Belgian media referred to him as a "mini-Sagan", in reference to Peter Sagan. . In April 2017, two and a half months after his win at the Junior World Cyclo-cross Championships, Pidcock won
Paris–Roubaix Juniors, breaking clear with a solo attack on the
Carrefour de l'Arbre from the finish. In May 2017, while riding for the PH Mas–Paul Milnes–Oldfield team, Pidcock became the first guesting rider to win an individual round of the
Tour Series criterium competition, soloing to victory in
Durham. In July he went on to win the elite race of the
British National Circuit Race Championships in Sheffield, at only 17 years of age, attacking on the final climb on the final lap and taking the title ahead of
Harry Tanfield and
Jon Mould. In addition to his success in cyclo-cross, criteriums and road racing, in August he took honours on the track when he won the junior
British National Scratch Championships. On 19 September 2017, he won the junior time trial at the
UCI Road World Championships in Norway.
Telenet–Fidea Lions At the start of June 2017, Pidcock announced that he would join the team from October, on a two-year contract. Pidcock made his début with the team at the
Polderscross Brico Cross race on 14 October 2017, where he finished as part of a five-rider group – including the likes of
Laurens Sweeck and
Kevin Pauwels – in ninth place, 77 seconds down on race winner
Mathieu van der Poel. The following weekend, he took his first win for the team; on 21 October, he took victory in the under-23 race at the Niels Albert CX, held in
Boom, as part of the
Superprestige competition. Pidcock finished eight seconds clear of his closest competitor,
Adam Ťoupalík. On 22 October, Pidcock again got the better of Ťoupalík in the first under-23
World Cup race of the season, at
Koksijde. In November, Pidcock took the silver medal in the under-23 race at the
European Championships, in
Tábor,
Czech Republic; Belgium's
Eli Iserbyt out-sprinted him to the finish line in a two-up sprint but Pidcock raised his arm in protest, claiming that Iserbyt had made an irregular sprint, boxing him in at the barriers. In December, it was announced that Pidcock would ride for in road races in 2018. On 26 December 2017, Pidcock won his fourth World Cup race in as many starts, at the
Grand Prix Eric De Vlaeminck held at
Circuit Zolder. With the victory, it gave him an unassailable lead in the World Cup standings, as a rider's best four scores (from seven races) count towards the classification. In the run up to the
2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Pidcock won his first
British National Under-23 Cyclo-cross Championships title in
Hetton-le-Hole, winning the race by over a minute from his next closest competitor. However, despite being considered the favourite for the Under-23 title at the Worlds, he could only finish 15th after enduring a poor start to the race when he lost his footing on the pedals.
TP Racing, WIGGINS and Trinity In August 2018, it was announced that Pidcock and Telenet–Fidea Lions had mutually agreed to end their contract to allow Pidcock to join new British cyclo-cross team . The team was established by rider agency Trinity Sports Management, and a spokesperson for Trinity indicated that the new team would be built around Pidcock. The team made their debut in October 2018. During the 2018–19 season, Pidcock won a second Under-23 Cyclo-cross World Cup, the Under-23 Superprestige, the Under-23 European Championship, and the Under-23 World Championship, as well as the senior British National Championship. He 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. At the
2019 UCI Road World Championships, held on home roads in Yorkshire, Pidcock crossed the finish line of the Under-23 road race in fourth, although this was subsequently promoted to third as the initial apparent winner
Nils Eekhoff was subsequently disqualified. in 2019. TP Racing were rebranded to Trinity Racing for the 2019–20 cyclo-cross season, with Pidcock stepping up to a full season of senior elite competition for the first time. He 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. In February 2020 it was announced that Pidcock would also 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. After racing in 2020 was interrupted by the
COVID-19 pandemic, Pidcock returned to competition in August, making his debut in international mountain biking competition at the French Cup cross-country race at
Alpe d'Huez, where he finished ninth, before competing at the
Transmaurienne Vanoise, where he finished fourth overall, won three of the five stages and placed on the podium in the other two. On the road, he finished fourth in the Under-23 time trial at the
2020 European Road Championships, before heading to the
Giro Ciclistico d'Italia: after losing time on the first stage in hot conditions, he won stage 4 in a breakaway to take the leader's
pink jersey, and went on to win stages 7 and 8 to secure the overall race win. In September, Pidcock rode at the
Road World Championships in
Imola, where he made his debut in the
elite road race as leader of the British team, having been given dispensation to step up after the championships' under-23 and junior races were cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. He finished the race – the longest one-day race of his career so far – in 42nd place, staying near the front of the peloton for most of the race before fading on the final lap. He stated that he was pleased with his performance and received plaudits from the Team GB's
road captain Luke Rowe. The following month he rounded off his season by switching back to mountain biking, making his debut in the
Mountain Bike World Cup at
Nové Město na Moravě where he won the two under-23 races at the meeting, despite starting from the back of the grid in both races. His fastest lap in each of the races was seven seconds quicker than the fastest riders in the elite races. He 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. Pidock started his 2020–21 cyclo-cross season in November 2020 at
Cyklokros Tábor, the first round of that season's
World Cup, where he finished 17th after enduring a poor start and crashing midway through the race. The following month he won
Cyclo-cross Gavere, his first major senior international win in cyclo-cross. He 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 "(coming) of age". At the
2021 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in
Ostend in January, Pidcock narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fourth, despite closing the gap to the third placed Aerts in the closing stages. Pidcock competed in 13 races in the 2020–21 cyclo-cross season, taking a total of nine podiums.
Ineos Grenadiers (2021–2024) In September 2020 announced that Pidcock would join them from the 2021 season. He was initially scheduled to join the team from 1 March, following the conclusion of the 2020–21 cyclo-cross season. In January 2021, it was announced that Pidcock was to join the team on 1 February. Pidcock enjoyed a successful start with the team in the
spring classics, finishing third in
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, fifth in
Strade Bianche, and 15th at
Milan–San Remo, where he attacked from the leading group on the descent of the
Poggio. On 14 April 2021 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 Pidcock came second after a
photo finish behind Wout van Aert. He went on to take another top ten finish at
Flèche Wallonne, placing sixth despite crashing from the finish. After the spring classics, Pidcock switched to mountain bike racing as part of his preparation for competing in the discipline at the
2020 Summer Olympics. In his first appearance in the elite category of the Mountain Bike World Cup in
Albstadt, Pidcock moved forward from his starting position of 76th in the field to lead the race at the start of the third lap before eventually crossing the finish line in fifth. At the second round of the
2021 Mountain Bike World Cup in
Nové Město in May, 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. At the end of May Pidcock broke his collarbone in a training crash that prevented him from returning to the road in the
Tour de Suisse the following month, however following surgery he was able to return to training on the road after just over a week. At the Olympics in July, Pidcock took the gold medal in the
cross-country mountain bike competition, taking the lead midway through the race and crossing the finish line 20 seconds ahead of second placed
Mathias Flückiger. This was the first ever Olympic medal for a British rider in mountain biking, and Pidcock also became the youngest rider to win an Olympic mountain bike title, being 79 days younger than
Jenny Rissveds when she was crowned Olympic champion at the
2016 Summer Olympics. Pidcock was named in the Ineos Grenadiers squad for the
2021 Vuelta a España, which he finished 67th on GC. Pidcock was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours for services to cycling. Pidcock started his cyclo-cross season in early December at
Cyclo-cross Boom, and competed in 12 races leading up to the world championships. He won his first elite World Cup in Rupchen and took another world cup win in
Hulst. Overall he finished 11th in the world cup standings; despite only participating in 5 out of 15 rounds. In January he skipped defending his British championship to attend the Ineos Grenadiers training camp. After the training camp he returned to compete in the X20 trofee in Hamme and the World Cup in
Hoogerheide. At the World Championships Pidcock entered as a top favourite with
Eli Iserbyt. 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. (on behalf of
Tadej Pogačar) during Stage 13 of the
Tour de France in 2022. During the
2022 road cycling season Pidcock entered seven classic races as well as three out of the four early season
Monuments and had what could best be described as average results all the way around. In the Monuments he finished at the back of the group in
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, he finished outside the top 10 in the
Tour of Flanders and abandoned
Milan–San Remo where he began to feel sick as the race progressed. Pidcock managed to make up the deficit, and the lead changed a few times between Pidcock and Koretzky towards the end. Koretzky was leading with 400m to go, and Pidcock took a chance to move ahead of Koretzky by taking the inside line past a tree, but the two collided causing Koretzky to unclip from his pedal. This allowed Pidcock to race ahead to the finishing line, to the displeasure of the French crowd. The consensus was that there had been no wrongdoing by anyone, and Pidcock won the Olympic gold medal for the second time. As with his previous Olympic victory, Pidcock prepared for the event with Belgian coach
Kurt Bogaerts with whom he had been working since 2018. Bogaerts had joined Ineos in 2021 to work more closely with Pidcock across all disciplines, and would later follow Pidcock to
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team in 2025. In October, Pidcock competed in the
Giro dell'Emilia and finished on the podium in second place. He finished 15th at the
Gran Piemonte five days later. It was anticipated that he would also race in
Il Lombardia two days later, on 12 October, but he described on social media that he had been "deselected" from the Ineos Grenadiers line-up. This fuelled ongoing speculation that Pidcock would be parting ways with the team. On 4 December, it was announced that Pidcock would be leaving Ineos at the end of the season, despite having signed a five-year deal with the team in 2022. It was later announced that Pidcock had signed a three-year contract with . Pidcock was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2025 New Year Honours for services to cycling.
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (2025) On 22 January, the Q36.5 team announced that Pidcock's first race for the squad would be at the
2025 AlUla Tour. He won stages two and four on the way to his first elite
general classification victory. He took the lead after stage two and held it until the end of the race, also winning the points classification. On 20 February, Pidcock won stage two of the
Vuelta a Andalucía in an uphill sprint ahead of former Ineos teammate
Brandon Rivera and would finish third in the general classification. He finished second to reigning
World Champion Tadej Pogačar at
Strade Bianche on 8 March, a race the pair had dominated in recent years. After Pogačar misjudged a corner and slid along the road before tumbling into a field, Pidcock slowed to wait for the scraped and bloodied Slovenian who would later ride away to a solo victory. ==Personal life==