Owain Doull

Owain Daniel Doull (born 2 May 1993 ) is a Welsh road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Doull specialises in the team pursuit on the track, and won a gold medal in the discipline at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; as a result, he became the first Welsh-speaking athlete to win Olympic gold.

Career history

Doull was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales where he was educated at Ysgol y Wern and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf. As a child he was a keen sportsperson and played rugby as a schoolboy and started cycling for the Maindy Flyers at 14.

In 2010 he was selected for the 2011 British Cycling's Olympic Development Programme, along with fellow Welsh cyclists Amy Roberts and Elinor Barker. Roberts and Barker were also part of the Wales team that entered the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games on the Isle of Man. Doull took two medals at the games, the silver in the Men's road race and bronze alongside Dan Pearson in the Men's team road race. In 2012 Doull completed the Olympic Development Programme and was accepted into the British Cycling Academy Programme.

Doull followed his European victory with success on the world stage when he was part of the team pursuit team to take gold at Manchester in the first leg of the 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup. Then in December 2013 he won two further medals in the second leg of the World Cup, this time in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He was again part of the team pursuit which took the bronze medal, and then won his first major individual medal when he took gold in the scratch race.

Doull turned professional for the 2014 road season with . Doull represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014.

In 2015 Doull moved to the new team set up by Bradley Wiggins aiming to prepare British riders for the team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics, rejecting an offer to switch to road racing full-time with . In September 2015, Doull finished third overall at the Tour of Britain, and also won the points classification. In November 2015 Doull confirmed that he would remain at for the 2016 season, whilst in May 2016 it was announced that he would join on a two-year deal from 2017. In August 2016, Doull signed on with as a stagiaire for the remainder of the season.

Doull was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling. Doull kicked off his 2018 season with an appearance in the Tour Down Under.

In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España.

Major results Road

2010 1st Points classification, Junior Tour of Wales 2nd Road race, National Junior Championships 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

4th Time trial 2013 1st Points classification, An Post Rás 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships 4th ZLM Tour 2014 1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux 1st Stage 3 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships 4th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften 2015 National Under-23 Championships 1st Road race 2nd Time trial Flèche du Sud 1st Points classification 1st Stages 3 & 4 2nd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux 1st Points classification 2nd La Côte Picarde 3rd Overall Tour of Britain 1st Points classification 5th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships 7th Overall ZLM Tour 10th Overall Tour de Normandie 10th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften 2017

7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 9th Overall Tour of Britain 2018 3rd Road race, National Championships 2019 (1 pro win) 1st Stage 3 Herald Sun Tour 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 4th Time trial, National Championships 9th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2020 (1) 1st Stage 4 Tour de la Provence 2021 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Tour of Britain 2022 7th Time trial, Commonwealth Games 2023 4th Road race, National Championships 10th Trofeo Palma 2024 5th Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2019 2020 2021 2022202320242025 Giro d'Italia — — — DNF——110 Tour de France — — — 90——— Vuelta a España 70 — — ——118—

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

2010 National Junior Championships 1st Points race 2nd Madison 3rd Individual pursuit 2011 UEC European Junior Championships 1st Team pursuit

1st Team pursuit, National Championships National Junior Championships 1st Madison (with Jonathan Dibben) 1st Points race 2nd Individual pursuit 2nd Scratch 1st Six Days of Ghent Future Stars (with Simon Yates) 2012 National Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Team pursuit 2nd Points race 3rd Madison (with George Atkins) 2013 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships UCI World Cup 1st Team pursuit, Manchester 1st Scratch, Aguascalientes 3rd Team pursuit, Aguascalientes 2014 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships UCI World Cup, London 1st Madison (with Mark Christian) 1st Team pursuit 2015

2016

2019 2nd Six Days of London (with Mark Cavendish)