Owain Doull

Owain Doull was born on 2 May 1993 in Cardiff and grew up in the Welsh capital, where he went to Welsh-medium schools. He played rugby as a schoolboy and started riding with the Maindy Flyers club at 14. He is a road and track cyclist who races for Great Britain, and he has also represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games.

His first big results came on the track. He won silver in the road race at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, joined the British Cycling academy programme and became European team pursuit champion in 2013, 2014 and 2015. He took silver in the team pursuit at the 2015 and 2016 world championships, then won Olympic gold in the event in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, becoming the first Welsh-speaking athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours.

On the road he turned professional in 2014 with An Post–Chain Reaction and rode for Bradley Wiggins’s team in 2015 and 2016. In 2015 he was third overall at the Tour of Britain and won its points classification. He joined Team Sky as a stagiaire in August 2016 and rode for the British squad, later INEOS Grenadiers, until 2021. Highlights from those years include a bronze medal in the 2017 world team time trial, a stage at the 2019 Herald Sun Tour, second place at the 2019 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne and a stage at the 2020 Tour de la Provence.

From 2022 to 2025 he rode for EF Education–EasyPost. His Grand Tour starts include the 2019 Vuelta a España (70th), the 2022 Tour de France (90th), the 2024 Vuelta (118th) and the 2025 Giro d’Italia (110th).

For 2026 he joined Team Visma | Lease a Bike on a contract to 2027. The team says it expects him to help in sprint and classics situations, and to guide its younger riders in those races. His early 2026 starts included Milan–San Remo and Paris–Roubaix, where he was 136th in both, and he was 44th at the Hamburg Cyclassics in August.