Ella Maclean-Howell

Ella MacLean-Howell (born 1 September 2004) is a British mountain bike cross country cyclist and cyclo-cross competitor from Wales.

Early life From Llantrisant in Wales, she rode as a youngster for Maindy Flyers and Cardiff J.I.F. She finished third in the girls under-16s race at the National Cyclo-Cross Championships in Gravesend in 2019. She competed at the 2022 UCI World Mountain Bike Championships, where she finished 5th in the junior race.

Career In February 2023, she finished sixteenth at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, in the Netherlands. In May 2023, she won third round of the National Cross-country Series in Winchester.

She finished second in the senior race, and won the under-23 title, at the British National Cyclo-Cross Championships in January 2024.

In April 2024, she won the elite short track and Olympic title in the opening round of the National Cross-country Series in Kirroughtree.

Competing at the 2024 UEC European MTB Championships, Maclean-Howell won a silver medal in the women’s U23 XCC race in May 2024. At the same championship, she finished fourth place in the under-23 women’s Olympic cross-country race.

In June 2024, she was selected for the British team to compete in the cross-country race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Major results Cyclo-cross

2021–2022

1st Overall Junior National Trophy Series 1st Derby 1st Milnthorpe 1st Callender Park 1st Sunderland 1st Broughton Hall 1st Junior Clanfield 4th UCI World Junior Championships 2022–2023 National Trophy Series 1st Broughton Hall 2nd Gravesend 1st Clanfield 3rd National Championships 2023–2024 National Trophy Series 1st Bradford 2nd National Championships

Mountain bike

2022

UCI Junior Series 1st Heubach 2nd Banyoles 3rd Nals Junior National Series 1st Fowey 5th Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships 2023

National Series 1st Winchester 2nd Margam 2nd Fowey 2024

Under-23 French Cup 1st Marseille–Luminy National Series 1st Kirroughtree UCI World Under-23 Championships

5th Cross-country UCI Under-23 XCC World Cup 2nd Nové Město 4th Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup 5th Crans-Montana 5th Les Gets