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Erin Boothman
Boothman in 2024
Personal information
Born (2007-04-24) 24 April 2007 (age 19)[1]
Team information
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeTime Trial / All Rounder
Amateur team
2024-Tofauti Everyone Active
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place2026 GlasgowIndividual pursuit
Bronze medal – third place2026 GlasgowScratch race
Representing  Great Britain
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2024 LuoyangTeam pursuit
Gold medal – first place2024 LuoyangMadison
Gold medal – first place2025 ApeldoornTeam pursuit
Gold medal – first place2025 ApeldoornMadison
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 Anadia1 km time trial
Gold medal – first place2025 AnadiaTeam pursuit
Gold medal – first place2025 AnadiaMadison
Silver medal – second place2024 CottbusTeam pursuit
Bronze medal – third place2024 CottbusElimination

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 two more at the 2025 edition.[2] Boothman also won three European Junior Track Cycling Championships gold medals in 2025.

Early life

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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 pursue cycling.[4] She also rode as a member of East Kilbride RC.[5][6]

Career

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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 December 2025, she won the Scottish national 4km individual pursuit title ahead of Arabella Blackburn, her time of 4:34.848 breaking the Scottish record by 18 seconds.[15]

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] In February 2026, Boothman placed third overall in the individual pursuit at the British Track Cycling Championships.[16] Later at the championships, she won the elimination race, finishing ahead of Anna Morris and Katie Archibald.[17] At the 2026 Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong, Boothman won a silver medal in the team pursuit, before winning another silver in the madison with Maddie Leech.[18] Later that month, she won her first professional road race at the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs in Luxembourg.[19] In June, Boothman won the 2026 U23 time trial at the British national championships, with a time that would have placed her third in the senior event.[20]

On 31 July 2026, Boothman won two bronze medals in a single day at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, defeating defending champion Bryony Botha of New Zealand in the bronze medal race in the 4000 m individual pursuit, and in the 10 km scratch race final.[21][22]

Major results

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Road

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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
2026
1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

Track

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2024
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Madison (with Carys Lloyd)
1st Team pursuit
UEC European Junior Championships
2nd Team pursuit
3rd Elimination
2025
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Madison (with Phoebe Taylor)
1st Team pursuit
3rd Scratch, National Championships
2026
National Championships
1st Elimination
3rd Individual pursuit
UCI World Cup
2nd Team pursuit, Hong Kong
2nd Madison, Hong Kong (with Maddie Leech)
Commonwealth Games
3rd Individual pursuit
3rd Scratch

References

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  1. "Erin Boothman". Procyclingstats. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  2. "Erin Boothman". First Cycling. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  3. "Teen reveals Olympic dream as she celebrates exam success". Glasgow Times. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  4. 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.
  5. "Erin takes the world by storm". Scottishcycling.org.uk. 27 August 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  6. Thomson, Paul (10 October 2019). "East Kilbride Road Club riders enjoy a summer of success". Daily Record.
  7. "Williamwood High cyclist awarded for sporting excellence". Barrheadnews. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  8. "YOUNG STARS IMPRESS IN NEWPORT WITH BOOTHMAN ON LIGHTNING FORM IN MARIBOR". British Cycling. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  9. "Welsh Cyclists Shine at 2024 European Junior and Under-23 Track Championships in Cottbus". beiciocymru.org. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  10. "Young Team Impress at the Euros". Scottish Cycling. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  11. "DAILY UPDATES: 2024 UCI JUNIOR TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Cycling. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  12. Abbott, Will (23 July 2025). "York teenage cycling sensation sets junior world record". York Press. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  13. 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.
  14. "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.
  15. "Scottish records tumble in fast and frantic pursuit and team sprint action". Scottish Cycling. 5 December 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
  16. Davidson, Tom (21 February 2026). "'I'm just over the moon' – World record holder Josie Knight wins nail-biting individual pursuit final at British Track Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  17. Davidson, Tom (22 February 2026). "'It means the world' – Teenager Erin Boothman pulls off shock victory against Olympians at British Track Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
  18. "Richardson and Finucane win Track World Cup golds". BBC Sport. 19 April 2026. Archived from the original on 19 April 2026. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
  19. Tyson, Jackie (3 May 2026). "Festival Elsy Jacobs à Luxembourg: Electric sprint by Erin Boothman lands 19-year-old first career victory". Cycling News. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  20. Beckett, Adam (25 June 2026). "Ethan Hayter wins elite men's time trial for fourth time at British National Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  21. "Welsh women enjoy golden double while Awang ends 16-year wait for redemption". Glasgow2026. 31 July 2026. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
  22. "Commonwealth Games: Sami Donnelly gets second silver medal, Devon Briggs wins gold". RNZ. 1 August 2026. Retrieved 1 August 2026.