British road cyclist
Owain Daniel Doull
MBE (born 2 May 1993
[6] ) is a
Welsh road and
track cyclist , who currently rides for
UCI WorldTeam
EF Education–EasyPost . 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.
[7]
Career history
Doull at the
2015 Tour of Britain , where he finished third overall and won the Points Classification
Doull was born and raised in
Cardiff ,
Wales
[8] where he was educated at Ysgol y Wern and
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf .
[9] As a child he was a keen sportsperson and played rugby as a schoolboy and started cycling for the Maindy Flyers at 14.
[10]
In 2010 he was selected for the 2011 British Cycling's Olympic Development Programme, along with fellow Welsh cyclists
Amy Roberts and
Elinor Barker .
[11] 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.
[6]
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.
[6] 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 .
[12]
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 .
[13] 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.
[14]
Doull (right) with his Olympic gold medal in 2016
Doull turned professional for the 2014 road season with
An Post–Chain Reaction .
[15] Doull represented
Wales at the Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow, 2014 .
[16]
In 2015 Doull moved to the new
WIGGINS team set up by
Bradley Wiggins aiming to prepare British riders for the
team pursuit at the
2016 Summer Olympics ,
[17] rejecting an offer to switch to road racing full-time with
Team Europcar .
[18] 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 WIGGINS for the 2016 season, whilst in May 2016 it was announced that he would join
Team Sky on a two-year deal from 2017.
[19] In August 2016, Doull signed on with Team Sky as a stagiaire for the remainder of the season.
[20]
Doull was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling.
[21] Doull kicked off his 2018 season with an appearance in the
Tour Down Under .
[22]
In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the
2019 Vuelta a España .
[23]
Major results
Road
2010
1st
Points classification,
Junior Tour of Wales
2nd
Road race , National Junior Championships
2011
Commonwealth Youth Games
2nd
Road race
3rd
Team road race
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
3rd
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
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
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
2nd
Individual pursuit
3rd
Omnium
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
1st
Team pursuit ,
UEC European Championships
2nd
Team pursuit ,
UCI World Championships
2016
1st
Team pursuit ,
Olympic Games
2nd
Team pursuit ,
UCI World Championships
2019
2nd
Six Days of London (with
Mark Cavendish )
References
External links
1908 :
Jones ,
Kingsbury ,
Meredith ,
Payne (
GBR )
1920 :
Carli ,
Ferrario ,
Giorgetti ,
Magnani (
ITA )
1924 :
De Martino ,
Dinale ,
Menegazzi ,
Zucchetti (
ITA )
1928 :
Facciani ,
Gaioni ,
Lusiani ,
Tasselli (
ITA )
1932 :
Cimatti ,
Pedretti ,
Ghilardi ,
Borsari (
ITA )
1936 :
Charpentier ,
Goujon ,
Lapébie ,
Le Nizerhy (
FRA )
1948 :
Adam ,
Blusson ,
Coste ,
Decanali (
FRA )
1952 :
Campana ,
De Rossi ,
Messina ,
Morettini (
ITA )
1956 :
Domenicali ,
Faggin ,
Gandini ,
Gasparella ,
Pizzali (
ITA )
1960 :
Arienti ,
Testa ,
Vallotto ,
Vigna (
ITA )
1964 :
Claesges ,
Henrichs ,
Link ,
Streng (
EUA )
1968 :
Frey ,
Asmussen ,
Lyngemark ,
Olsen (
DEN )
1972 :
Schumacher ,
Colombo ,
Haritz ,
Hempel (
FRG )
1976 :
Vonhof ,
Braun ,
Lutz ,
Schumacher (
FRG )
1980 :
Manakov ,
Movchan ,
Osokin ,
Petrakov ,
Krasnov (
URS )
1984 :
Grenda ,
Nichols ,
Turtur ,
Woods (
AUS )
1988 :
Ekimov ,
Kasputis ,
Nelyubin ,
Umaras (
URS )
1992 :
Steinweg ,
Walzer ,
Fulst ,
Glöckner ,
Lehmann (
GER )
1996 :
Capelle ,
Ermenault ,
Monin ,
Moreau (
FRA )
2000 :
Fulst ,
Bartko ,
Becke ,
Lehmann ,
Pollack (
GER )
2004 :
Brown ,
Lancaster ,
McGee ,
Roberts (
AUS )
2008 :
Clancy ,
Manning ,
Thomas ,
Wiggins (
GBR )
2012 :
Clancy ,
Thomas ,
Burke ,
Kennaugh (
GBR )
2016 :
Clancy ,
Burke ,
Doull ,
Wiggins (
GBR )
2020 :
Consonni ,
Ganna ,
Lamon ,
Milan (
ITA )
2010 : Great Britain : (
Burke ,
Clancy ,
Queally ,
Tennant )
2011 : Great Britain : (
Burke ,
Clancy ,
Kennaugh ,
Tennant )
2012 : Russia : (
Ershov ,
Markov ,
Serov ,
Kaykov )
2013 : Great Britain : (
Burke ,
Clancy ,
Doull ,
Tennant )
2014 : Great Britain : (
Dibben ,
Clancy ,
Doull ,
Tennant )
2015 : Great Britain : (
Dibben ,
Wiggins ,
Doull ,
Tennant ,
Burke ,
Gibson )
2016 : France : (
Denis ,
Ermenault ,
Maitre ,
Chavanel ,
Thomas )
2017 : France : (
Denis ,
Ermenault ,
Maitre ,
Pijourlet )
2018 : Italy : (
Viviani ,
Bertazzo ,
Ganna ,
Lamon )
2019 : Denmark : (
LN Hansen ,
Pedersen ,
Madsen ,
Johansen )
2020 : Russia : (
Dubchenko ,
Gonov ,
Bersenev ,
Evtushenko )
2021 : Denmark : (
Malmberg ,
Pedersen ,
T Hansen ,
Bévort )
2022 : France : (
Denis ,
Lafargue ,
Tabellion ,
Thomas ,
Boudat )
2023 : Italy : (
Ganna ,
Lamon ),
Milan ,
Moro ,
Consonni )
2024 : Great Britain : (
Bigham ,
Hayter ,
C Tanfield ,
Vernon ,
Wood )
Riders in italics rode in heats only