Flora Perkins is a British professional cyclist, who currently rides for
UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Perkins grew up in South London, where she raced with the VC Londres club at the
Herne Hill Velodrome
The Herne Hill Velodrome is an outdoor velodrome in Herne Hill, in south London. It is one of the oldest cycling tracks in the world, having been built in 1891. It hosted the track cycling events in the 1948 Summer Olympics and was briefly the h ...
. In 2021, she won the amateur
Banbury Star road race and junior
Watersley Challenge. In 2022, she rode with , and received media attention for competing in major
UCI World Tour
The UCI WorldTour is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits. It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an annual ranking system based upon perfor ...
races at 18 years old; Perkins rode in
Paris-Roubaix Femmes and
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes is an annual road bicycle racing event in the Ardennes region of Belgium, held in late April. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The equivalent men's race is a cycling monument. Liege is one of four men's ...
before taking her
A-level
The A-level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational ...
exams.
Major results
Source:
;2021
: 1st Overall
Watersley Ladies Challenge
;2024
: 3rd
Argenta Classic-2 Districtenpijl
: 4th
Road race, National Championships
References
External links
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2003 births
Living people
British female cyclists
Sportspeople from London