This page covers Cat Ferguson's 2026 season race-by-race, including results, roles, key moments, and incidents for each race. Each entry is a spoiler for the corresponding race. Read no further if you intend to watch any of them unspoiled.
Cat Ferguson built her 2026 around the spring classics and a debut Grand Tour, racing as one of Movistar's most complete young all-rounders at just 20. She opened her season with a sprint win at the Trofeo Llucmajor in Mallorca before a full block of the cobbled and hilly classics. The headline of her spring came in Pamplona on 12 May, where she won the Navarra Women's Elite Classic for a second time — out-sprinting Ruby Roseman-Gannon and Fiona Mangan from a reduced group on a selective course — to become the first rider to win the race twice. The double-up confirmed her standing among the leading young riders in the women's peloton and pointed toward her stated medium-term goals of proving herself over a debut Giro d'Italia Women and earning a place at the Tour de France Femmes.
Abandoned on the crash-marred Stage 1 into Ravenna after a large peloton pile-up, ending Movistar's sprint hopes before the race had really begun.
Caught in the late peloton crash, she stayed down and abandoned, ending Movistar's fast-finish hopes on the opening day.
Ferguson rode a controlled, classics-rider's race, staying in the front selection over the decisive walls in the final third and refusing to let any late move slip away on the rolling run-in. When the reduced group regrouped for the sprint on the rising finish, she launched early and held a long effort to the line, out-sprinting Ruby Roseman-Gannon and Fiona Mangan. The win made the 20-year-old Briton the first two-time winner of the Navarra Women's Elite Classic and underlined her standing as one of the peloton's most complete young all-rounders.
The 19-year-old Briton was Movistar's second card, taking sixth from the front chase group seven seconds back. A composed ride in support of Reusser's winning move that confirmed her place among the spring's most promising young classics riders.
The 19-year-old Briton confirmed her rising classics reputation, surviving the Muur selection in the chase group and finishing fourth in the sprint behind Wiebes. A high-class result on a hard cobbled course.
Movistar's young all-rounder survived the first-half climbs and produced the fastest finish into Vila-Real, beating Paternoster and Borghesi for her first win of the 2026 season. A statement sprint at just 19, and Movistar's stage of the race.
The 19-year-old took the only stage Vollering didn't, winning the Stage 2 bunch sprint in Vila-Real ahead of Paternoster and Borghesi — a confidence-building first win of her 2026 season.