Ben Wiggins has followed in his father's footsteps by winning gold at the British National TT Championships
Ben Wiggins (Hagens Berman Jayco) has continued the family record in road time trials by claiming victory in the U23 men's TT at the British National Championships in Lampeter, Wales.
Though already a world and European champion on the track as a junior and U23 - and a winner of UCI-ranked races on the road as a junior - this is Wiggins's first win on the road as an U23 rider.
He had finished 2nd in the British championships over the last three years; in 2025 and 2024, as an U23, and in 2023 as a junior.
His first win at a British road Nationals comes 12 years after his father, 2012 Tour de France winner and TT Olympic Champion in the same year, won the last of his three British TT titles.
In 2014, Wiggins Snr beat Geraint Thomas by over a minute for the British TT title and then went on to win the TT at the Worlds in Ponferrada, Spain.
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“I was second twice as a junior, and I’ve been second twice as an under-23 so far,” Wiggins (21) told the British Continental, adding winning was “one of my biggest goals this season”, especially with an eye on the Worlds.
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“If I want to go there and be competitive, fighting for medals, I really need to get the job done, and start getting the job done at the Nationals.”
“A lot of us boys had just come out of the Giro Next Gen, so I did a lot of heat preparation for that race. I didn’t expect it to be this hot, but I think it carried over well.”
Wiggins Jnr has been enjoying his strongest year on the road to date, albeit slightly under the radar, with his climbing much better this season than it's ever been.
He has just completed the Giro d'Italia Next Gen, where he worked for Irish team mate Adam Rafferty, especially in the stage 6 breakaway, which helped lay the foundations of Rafferty's final 7th place overall.
Today, over a 25.6km course, Wiggins was best by well over a minute. He took the title by 1:19 from Henry Hobbs (Visma Lease a Bike Development).
Finlay Tarling (NSN Development Team), the younger brother of TT specialist Josh Tarling (Netcompany Ineos), was 3rd at 1:22.
The British men's senior TT title was won by Ethan Hayter (Soudal Quick-Step), who defended the title he won last year, bringing his tally of senior TT championship wins to four.
In the senior women's race, Zoe Bäckstedt (CANYON//SRAM) also defended her title from last year. Erin Boothman (Liv AlUla Jayco Women's Continental Team) claimed the U23 women's gold medal by almost two minutes.
