Owain Doull will step-up to World Pro Tour level next season and join Team Sky, according to current boss Sir Bradley Wiggins.

The Cardiff-born rider is one of Britain’s hottest prospects and hopes to compete in this summer’s Team Pursuit at the Rio Olympics.

Doull admitted last year that he would join a top team from 2017 without revealing which one but now it seems Wiggins has let the cat out of the bag.

The duo are currently competing together for Team WIGGINS at the Tour of California.

Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France champ, 36, said in an interview: “Owain’s going into the pro ranks next year with Team Sky.

“He’s the first success story of this team. Again, he’s in the heavy program with me at the moment on the track.”

Of Doull’s prospects this week, he added: “I don’t think his road form will be up to where it was in the Tour of Britain last year, where he finished third.”

Doull, another product of the Maindy Flyers club, has been with Team WIGGINS for the past two years and produced his superb third on the Tour of Britain last year.

But he will join Sky on a two-year deal mixing with the likes of fellow Cardiff riders Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe as well as two-time Tour de France champ Chris Froome.

The 23-year-old is currently 101st in the Tour of California after two of the eight stages, 10 minutes 32 seconds down on race leader Ben King of the United States