Erin Boothman

From Netherlee in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, she attended Williamwood High School in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire.^[3] Both her parents are engineers. She joined her first cycling club around the age of nine. When she was 12 she won a three-stage race in Donegal, Ireland. Also a keen netball player, she joined British Cycling’s development pathway as an under-16 rider. She received an unconditional offer to study pharmacy at the University of Strathclyde, but deferred the offer to pursued cycling.^[4] She also rode as a member of East Kilbride RC.^[5][6]

She placed second in the under-16 women's category at the British Youth Track Cycling Championships in 2022. The following year she won the National Youth Omnium Championship.^[7] She won silver in the time trial at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor.^[8]

Alongside Cat Ferguson, Imogen Wolff and Carys Lloyd she won silver in the junior team pursuit at the 2024 UEC European Track Championships in Cottbus in July 2024.^[9] 24 hours later she won bronze in the elimination race at the Championships.^[10]

She won two gold medals at the 2024 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Luoyang, China. As part of the British women's team pursuit team alongside Cat Ferguson, Carys Lloyd and Imogen Wolff she set a new world record time of 4:20.811 to beat France in the final. She also won the Madison alongside Lloyd at the Championships in August 2024.^[11]

She set a world junior record and won the gold medal at the 2025 European Junior Championships in Portugal in the Team Pursuit alongside Abi Miller, Evie Smith, Phoebe Taylor, and Arabella Blackburn, beating Italy in the final, and in doing so setting a junior world record with a time of 4:20:376. Also at the championships, she won a gold medal in the Madison track cycling event alongside Miller.^[12]

Riding for Tofauti Everyone Active, she won the Gent–Wevelgem junior race and Clásica de Jaén in 2025. On the road she also won the junior British time trial title. On the track, she set a world junior record in the 3km individual pursuit at the British Junior Track Championships.^[4]

Boothman won the gold medals in the Madison, alongside Phoebe Taylor, and in the team pursuit with Abi Miller, Arabella Blackburn, Evie Smith and Taylor at the 2025 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in August 2025.^[13] She competed for Great Britain at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships junior women’s road race in Kigali, Rwanda in September 2025.^[14] In December 2025, she won the Scottish national 4km individual pursuit title ahead of Arabella Blackburn, her time of 4:34.848 breaking the Scottish record by 18 seconds.^[15]

In 2025, she signed a pro contract with Liv AlUla Jayco to join their development team in 2026 ahead of a move to the elite squad in 2027.^[4] In February 2026, Boothman placed third overall in the individual pursuit at the British Track Cycling Championships.^[16] Later at the championships, she won the elimination race, finishing ahead of Anna Morris and Katie Archibald.^[17]