Owain Doull
Doull in 2015
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2 May 1993 Cardiff, Wales |
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| Current team | Team Sky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track and road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Endurance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2013 | 100% Me | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2014 | An Post–Chain Reaction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | WIGGINS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | → Team Sky (stagiaire) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Team Sky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Owain Doull MBE (born 2 May 1993) is a Welsh track cyclist and Olympic champion, specialising in the team pursuit and individual Scratch races. He is the first Welsh-speaking athlete to win Olympic gold.
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 as well as cycling for the Maindy Flyers. 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.
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