The incredible climb of Tom Pidcock | One of the biggest threats at the Tour de France 2023

Tom pidcok is now a monument winning classics and tour de france stage winner! Able to dominate in all categories of bike racing at the highest level on and off road. He’s looking like an increasing threat to the general classification at le tour.
But where did it all begin?
Tom Pidcock was born in Leeds, England on July 30, 1999. He grew up in a family of cyclists. His mother and father were both keen cyclists and Tom's first bike was a hand-me-down from his father.
Tom started riding at a very young age and quickly showed a natural talent for the sport.
3. His first ever race came at the age of seven on the Castle Combe circuit in Wiltshire. In the race he dropped a chain resulting in a bit of a paddy.
But he kept racing and honing his natural talent building his confidence.. so much so that at the age of 12 he stated that i’m “going to win the tour de france”.
Tom remembers racing a lot at the Under-14 level but not “getting good” until was in the Under-16 ranks.
With a Win at the Scarborough National Youth Road Race Series and some strong results under his belt, he got support from Paul Milnes Cycles - a Yorkshire-based cycle shop with a strong heritage of supporting talented young racers from the county.
Aged 16 as a first-year Junior. A second place at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Hoogerheide cemented his status as ‘one-to-watch'.
The following year he would go on to start winning with the kind of style that was impossible to go unnoticed
On the road, Tom was also hitting headlines. Just two months after securing the rainbow stripes in cyclocross, he won the Junior edition of the prestigious Paris-Roubaix.
At 18 Tom then signed his first professional contract with cyclocross super-team, Telenet-Fidea for two years but he left after just one to join team wiggins in the uk. Here, scoring another Paris-Roubaix victory in the under-23 race before the team folded in 2019, “After the season with Wiggins, I just went to the dirt jumps and went out with my friends. I put on 8kg! And in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter. There’s no rush to be a WorldTour rider and I’m not in the game to be the youngest Tour de France winner, or the youngest this or that. To me, that’s quite irrelevant; it’s about what you’ve achieved at the end of your career.”
At the start of 2020 tom signed for the trinity racing team. the team racing manager kurt bogaerts a former professional road racing cyclist from belgium becoming his new coach. Who has been instrumental and key figure in helping tom on his route to the top.
Alongside the big race results, Tom points to the beginning of their working relationship as one of the major milestones on his cycling journey.
“That was after the time at Wiggins when I was a bit relaxed and he got me back into the swing of things. He’s not just a coach - he looks at everything I do as an athlete; diet, training, lifestyle, how to deal with a girlfriend and all that.”
Tom’s 2019 and 2020 seasons were packed full of remarkable results: Under-23 European Cyclocross Champion, Under-23 World Cyclocross Champion, British Cyclocross Champion, Under-23 World Cup winner. On the road, Tom became the first-ever British winner of the Under-23 Paris-Roubaix, and then went on to claim the Under-23 bronze at the World Championships in his home county of Yorkshire. And that was just 2019.
He made the step up to the elites in CX, securing silver in his first-ever Cyclocross World Championships before the global pandemic put a halt to all events.
When racing resumed, he showed that the lockdown hadn't affected his early-season form, powering his way to overall victory at the Giro Ciclistico d’Italia, the biggest stage race on the Under-23 road calendar, before riding an incredibly strong race at the Elite World Championships where he was Great Britain’s team leader.
From here he turned his hand to mountain bike, where he won back-to-back races at his first-ever Under-23 cross-country World Cups, and backed this up the following week with the Under-23 and e-MTB World Championship titles.
In September 2020, it was announced that Tom had signed with Ineos Grenadiers formally known as team sky, one of the biggest and perhaps the best-known professional road teams in the world. Ever.
“Honestly, I don’t think there’s any other team I would have ridden for," says Tom. "I might not have ever said this, but actually I always just thought, ‘of course I will ride for them’.”
Kurt now joins the young talent at his new and current team ineos grenadiers formally team sky.
'HE ALMOST DOESN’T NEED TO TRAIN' - TOM PIDCOCK’S EARLY SUCCESS IS UNIQUE, SAYS COACH KURT BOGAERTS
Pidcock’s coach Kurt Bogaerts has a professional relationship with the rider dating back to 2018, but the pair of them now work together at Ineos.

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Very informative…. Thank you so much for doing so much research on this amazing rider…. I love your content.

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My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

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With the right team and training he could win a grand tour ❤

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He's capable, within the next few years he'll have a grand tour under his belt, i'm sure of it!