Adam Rafferty (born 4 October 2005) is an Irish cyclist who rides for UCI Continental team .
Career In 2022, at the age of 16 years-old he rode in France for the Team 31 Jolly Cycles. He raced for the team again in 2023. In April 2023, he won the Lakeland Grand Prix after a 100 km solo breakaway. He finished in eighth place in the UCI Road World Championships – Junior men's time trial in Glasgow in August 2023.
He signed for Hagens Berman Axeon ahead of the 2024 season. Riding for Ireland, he finished in tenth place at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich in the men's under-23 time trial.
Rafferty won the bronze medal riding for Ireland in the U23 time trial at the 2025 European Road Championships. The following year, he placed second in the time trial at the Giro Next Gen, behind only overall race winner Lorenzo Finn, and had a top-ten finish in the U23 time trial at the 2026 World Championships in Montreal.
Personal life From Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, his younger sister Aliyah and older brother Darren are also professional cyclists.
Major results
2022 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 6th Chrono des Nations Juniors 2023 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 1st Overall Tour Junior Causses-Aigoual-Cévennes 1st Stage 2 1st Tour du Carmausin Ségala 1st Stage 2 Tour du Pays d'Olliergues 3rd Chrono des Nations Juniors 8th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships 9th Overall Tour de Gironde 10th Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships 2024 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 9th Overall International Tour of Rhodes 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships 2025 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Stage 5 Giro Next Gen 3rd Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships 5th Overall International Tour of Rhodes 2026 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 2nd Overall Grand Prix Jeseníky 2nd Overall Tour of Rhodes 7th Overall Giro Next Gen 9th Overall Tour de Bretagne 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
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