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's first competitive tournament for Great Britain was at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk, where he finished fifth in the Scratch race. His first podium finish was at the 2013 UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn, where as part of the team pursuit, he took gold along with Steven Burke, Ed Clancy and Andy Tennant.

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.

Road

 * 2010
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification, Junior Tour of Wales
 * 2nd Road race, National Junior Championships


 * 2011
 * Commonwealth Youth Games
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Road race
 * 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team road race
 * 4th Time trial


 * 2013
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification, An Post Rás
 * 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships
 * 4th ZLM Tour


 * 2014
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg 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 MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race
 * 2nd Time trial
 * Flèche du Sud
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Stages 3 & 4
 * 2nd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 2nd La Côte Picarde
 * 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
 * 1st Jersey blue.svg 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
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team time trial, UCI World Championships
 * 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

Track

 * 2010
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
 * 2nd Madison
 * 3rd Individual pursuit


 * 2011
 * UEC European Junior Championships
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Omnium
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit, National Championships
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with Jonathan Dibben)
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
 * 2nd Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Scratch
 * 1st Six Days of Ghent Future Stars (with Simon Yates)


 * 2012
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit
 * 2nd Points race
 * 3rd Madison (with George Atkins)


 * 2013
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
 * UCI World Cup
 * 1st Team pursuit, Manchester
 * 1st Scratch, Aguascalientes
 * 3rd Team pursuit, Aguascalientes


 * 2014
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
 * UCI World Cup, London
 * 1st Madison (with Mark Christian)
 * 1st Team pursuit


 * 2015
 * 1st European champion jersey 2014.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships


 * 2016
 * 1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships


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