# Ethan Vernon

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 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 Points classification
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    1st Stage 1 Tour des Alpes-Maritimes
    1st Points classification, Tour of Britain
    3rd Time trial, National Championships

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | DNF |
| Tour de France | — |
| Vuelta a España | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Track
#### 2017

    National Junior Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Points race
       1st Kilo
       3rd Scratch
    3rd Madison, National Championships (with William Tidball)

#### 2018

    National Junior Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Madison (with William Tidball)
    2nd Individual pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
    National Championships
       2nd Madison (with Rhys Britton)
       3rd Team pursuit

#### 2019

    2nd Team pursuit, National Championships

#### 2020

    2nd Kilo, UEC European Championships
    National Championships
       2nd Team pursuit
       3rd Scratch

#### 2021

    3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

#### 2022

    UCI World Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       3rd Elimination
    2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
    2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow

#### 2023

    1st Elimination, UCI World Championships
    2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

#### 2024

    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
    1st Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Milton
    2nd Team pursuit, Olympic Games