Maddie Leech

Madelaine Leech (born 4 May 2003) is an English international cyclist. In 2022, she represented England at the Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit. She was a two-time medalist at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships. She has ridden for UCI Women's Continental Team Lifeplus–Wahoo. and currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Alba Development Racing Team

Biography Leech rode for Huddersfield Star Wheelers before joining CAMS-Basso, she was part of winning teams in the European Junior Championship team pursuit and World Junior Championship road race. She won the silver medal in the Madison and a bronze medal in the Omnium at the 2022 British National Track Championships.

In 2022, she was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She competed in four events, winning a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit. She also rode in the points race, the women's individual pursuit event, finishing in 12th place and the women's road race. Leech won her first senior national title at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, after she won the Team Pursuit riding for Team Inspired. The following year, at the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships, she repeated the achievement, winning a second team pursuit national title for Team Inspired.

She competed for Great Britain at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships in Belgium, where she won a silver medal in the women's omnium. She also finished in sixth place in the women’s Madison alongside Neah Evans, and won a bronze medal at the championships in the women's team pursuit.

Leech was part of the British team pursuit line-up that won bronze at the 2025 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. She then became a world champion in the madison, competing alongside teammate Katie Archibald.

At the 2026 Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong, Leech won a silver medal in the team pursuit, before winning another silver in the madison with Erin Boothman.

Personal life She is from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.

Major results Road

2021 5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships 7th Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge 2023 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships 2024 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

Track

2021 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships 2022

2023 UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Madison (with Sophie Lewis) 1st Team pursuit, National Championships 2024 1st Team pursuit, National Championships 2025 UEC European Track Championships 3rd 15 px Team pursuit UCI World Championships 1st Madison (with Katie Archibald)

2026 2026 UCI Track World Cup 2nd Team pursuit, Hong Kong 2nd Madison (with Erin Boothman), Hong Kong