William Bjergfelt

William Bjergfelt was born in Portishead, Somerset, England on 4 December 1978. Parallel to his cycling career, he works as an engineer.^[2]

Prior to turning to para-cycling, Bjergfelt was active in able-bodied cycling, first in elite mountain bike racing, before switching to road racing.^[3] This ended in 2015 when he was injured in a head-on collision that shattered his right leg in to 25 pieces. The bones of this leg were reconstructed using three titanium plates.^[4]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Bjergfelt won the silver medal in Men's Scratch Race C5, finishing behind Alistair Donohoe.^[5] In 2021, he became the first para-cyclist to compete in the Tour of Britain.^[6][4] After a two-year hiatus, Bjergfelt returned to para-cycling and won his first road race in the World Cup, which took place in the Ostend round.^[7] At the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, he won the gold medal in the road race.^[8]

In August 2025, Bjergfelt broke the hour record in the C5 classification at Konya Velodrome, becoming the first Para-cyclist in history to pass the 50km threshold, eventually riding 51.471km in 60:00:00.^[9]