Lauren Bell

Lauren Bell (born 6 October 1999) is a British and Scottish female track cyclist. She won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal in the event at the 2023 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Early life She is from Forres in west Moray, Scotland. She was educated at the Forres Academy. She switched her focus from athletics to cycling in her late teenage years. She studied in Edinburgh, before moving to Manchester to train full-time with British Cycling.

She went on to take her first global medal with a bronze in the team sprint at the 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, alongside Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane.

Bell won a silver medal at the 2023 UCI Track Cycling World Championships on the women's team sprint event alongside Finucane and Capewell in Glasgow, Scotland. In the qualifying round they qualified fastest in a new British record time of 46.072. They were narrowly beaten to the gold medal in the final by the German sprint team who set a new world record.

At the 2025 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup in Konya, Bell was part of the British team sprint line-up that finished the event with a silver medal. She won three sprint titles at the 2025 British Cycling National Track Championships.

In the 2026 UCI Track World Cup, Bell won a silver medal in the team sprint at the race in Hong Kong. At the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Bell won bronze for Scotland in the team sprint.

Major wins 2020 National Track Championships

2024 National Track Championships

2025 UEC European Track Championships 2nd 15 px Team sprint (with Rhian Edmunds and Rhianna Parris-Smith) UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup 2nd Team sprint (with Lowri Thomas and Rhian Edmunds), Konya

2026 2026 UCI Track World Cup 2nd Team sprint (with Rhianna Parris-Smith and Emma Finucane), Hong Kong Commonwealth Games