Will's Profile

Will Tidball hails from Devon and began his cycling career with the Exeter Aces CSC cycling club, where he participated in road racing as a junior. Having ridden on the road and track from a young age, Tidball took his first world title at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in the men’s scratch race in spectacular fashion and has a promising future ahead of him.

Tidball has raced on the road for many years, winning the 2017 edition of the Junior CiCLE Classic, and gaining a top ten in the Kuurne-Kuurne junior race in 2018. In the same year he rode track alongside many other current members of the Great Britain track team at the London Velopark event, but it wasn’t until 2021 that he joined the Great Britain Cycling Team Academy and began to combine road racing with track. On the road that year, Tidball rode for a select Great Britain team at the Tour of Britain, finishing 12th in the team time-trial. 

Tidball achieved his first elite track medal at the UCI Track World Cup in London in 2018, taking bronze with a squad that also featured Matt Walls, Fred Wright, Ethan Vernon and Ethan Hayter. 

In 2021, Tidball rode two European Championships at two different levels. At the UEC Under-23 and Junior European Track Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, he won three medals: gold in the Madison with Rhys Britton, silver in the team pursuit with Britton, Alfie George and Max Rushby, and bronze in the elimination race. Later that year, he rode at elite level at the UEC European Championship in Grenchen, Switzerland in 2021, achieving bronze in the team pursuit alongside Britton, Charlie Tanfield, and Ollie Wood.

In 2022, he continued to compete at both U23 and elite levels, winning gold in the scratch race at the UEC Track Cycling U23 European Championships in Anadia, Portugal, and later that year taking bronze in the team pursuit in Munich, Germany at the UEC European Track Championships, once again with Britton, Tanfield and Wood, with the addition of Kian Emadi to the squad.

2023 was a strong year for Tidball, as he won several medals across a range of competitions, beginning at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia in February, where the men’s team pursuit quartet of Tidball, Britton, Tanfield and Wood went home with bronze. The Track Nations Cup proved successful once again in March of 2023, as Tidball won the gold medal in the elimination race in Cairo, Egypt. It was a sign of bigger things to come.

Tidball took his first world title in the scratch race at the 2023 UCI World Championships in Glasgow in sensational style, to put himself in line for Olympic selection in 2024. 

So far in 2024, Tidball has achieved a silver medal in the elimination race at the UEC Track Elite European Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. A few weeks later, the team pursuit squad of Tidball, Britton, Tanfield, Josh Tarling and Josh Charlton beat host nations Australia to record a stunning victory in the first round of the Tissot UCI Track Nations Cup in Adelaide on their path to Olympic qualification.

Tidball currently races on the road for the Saint Piran continental team, where he signed in 2023. In that year he recorded some good results including 5th place on general classification at the Tour de Loir-et-Cher (2.2); a stage win at the Ronde de l’Oise (2.2), and two top 20 finishes at the Tour of Britain (2.Pro).

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