Lukas Nerurkar and his dad Richard: 'He'd say cycling is tougher than running but I'd push back a bit'

Lukas Nerurkar and his dad Richard standing back to back.

This feature is part of the MEET THE MAKER series – each edition of which is first published in Cycling Weekly’s print magazine

There’s a new British cycling star on the scene – and he has quite the sporting surname. Twenty-year-old Lukas Nerurkar, a stage winner at the Baby Giro last June and riding for EF Education-EasyPost in 2024, is the son of Richard, Britain’s best marathon runner in the 1990s.