Owain Doull

Owain Doull

Doull in 2015
Personal information
Born (1993-05-02) 2 May 1993
Cardiff, Wales
Team information
Current team Team Sky (stagiaire)
Discipline Track and road
Role Rider
Rider type Endurance
Amateur team(s)
2013 100% Me
Professional team(s)
2014 An Post–Chain Reaction
2015–2016 WIGGINS
2016 → Team Sky (stagiaire)
2017– Team Sky

Owain Doull (born 2 May 1993[1]) 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.[2]

Career history

Doull at the 2014 Tour of Britain

Doull was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales[3] where he was educated at Ysgol y Wern and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf.[4] As a child he was a keen sportsperson and played rugby as a schoolboy as well as cycling for the Maindy Flyers.[5] In 2010 he was selected for the 2011 British Cycling’s Olympic Development Programme, along with fellow Welsh cyclists Amy Roberts and Elinor Barker.[6] 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.[1]

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.[1] 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.[7]

Doull at the 2015 Tour of Britain, where he finished third overall and won the Points Classification

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.[8] 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.[9]

Doull turned professional for the 2014 road season with An Post–Chain Reaction.[10] Doull represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014.[11]

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,[12] rejecting an offer to switch to road racing full-time with Team Europcar.[13]

In September 2015, Doull finished third overall at the 2015 Tour of Britain. He 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.[14] In August 2016, Doull signed on with Team Sky as a Stagiaire for the remainder of the season.[15]

Major results

2011
1st Six Days of Ghent Future Stars (with Simon Yates)
2012
1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships
3rd Madison (with George Atkins), National Track Championships
2013
1st Team Pursuit, European Track Championships
1st Points classification An Post Rás
4th ZLM Tour
UCI Track World Cup
1st Team Pursuit, Manchester
1st Scratch Race, Aguascalientes
3rd Team Pursuit, Aguascalientes
2014
1st Team Pursuit, European Track Championships
1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
1st Stage 3
2nd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
4th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
2015
1st National Under-23 Road Race Championships
1st Team pursuit, European Track Championships
Flèche du Sud
1st Points classification
1st Stage 3 & 4
2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2nd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
1st Points classification
2nd La Côte Picarde
2nd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
3rd Overall Tour of Britain
1st Points classification
5th UCI World Under-23 Time Trial Championships
7th Overall ZLM Tour
10th Overall Tour de Normandie
10th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
2016
1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Owain Doull Biography". British Cycling. britishcycling.org.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Owain Doull – y Cymro Cymraeg cyntaf i ennill medal aur Olympaidd". golwg360.cymru. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Owain Doull: Gold medal 'just feels surreal'". itv.com. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Cymro Cymraeg Euraidd y Gemau Olympaidd" [Golden Welsh Speaker at Olympic Games]. bbc.co.uk (in Welsh). 13 August 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Famous Last Words: Owain Doull". cyclingweekly.co.uk. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "Welsh riders confirmed as part of the Olympic Development Programme 2011". britishcycling.org.uk. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "Welsh cycling star Owain Doull snapped up by Irish team". walesonline.co.uk. 23 October 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "UCI Track Cycling World Cup". tissottiming.com. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "Track Cycling World Cup: Owain Doull wins gold in Mexico". bbc.co.uk. 7 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  10. ↑ Stokes, Shane (21 October 2013). "Ryan Mullen and Owain Doull sign for An Post Chainreaction Sean Kelly team". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  11. ↑ "Commonwealth Games 2014: Olympic champion Geraint Thomas and world sprint star Becky James head up Welsh cycling team for Glasgow". Wales Online. 2014-07-09.
  12. ↑ Fotheringham, William (8 January 2014). "Bradley Wiggins unveils new team to be sponsored by Sky". theguardian.com. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  13. ↑ Cary, Tom (2 December 2014). "Owain Doull snubs Europcar and is expected to join Sir Bradley Wiggins' new outfit". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Doull signs with Team Sky for 2017-18". CyclingNews.com. 18 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  15. ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/owain-doull-signs-for-team-sky/
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