Jonathan Milan

Jonathan Milan is an Italian professional cyclist who competes on both the track and the road, and who rides for the UCI WorldTeam Lidl-Trek. He was born on 1 October 2000 and is named after the seagull in Richard Bach's novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which his mother read while she was pregnant. His father Flavio and his younger brother Matteo are also cyclists. On the track he won team pursuit bronze at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin, then took team pursuit gold at the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, with a new world record, and won the world team pursuit title the same year. He later won the individual pursuit at the world championships in 2024 and 2026, setting a world record each time. On the road he rode for Cycling Team Friuli as an under-23, joined the World Tour with Team Bahrain Victorious in 2021, and won the points classification at the 2023 Giro d'Italia, with further stage wins at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Giro in 2024.