Maddie Leech
 Maddie Leech (2021) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 4 May 2003 Huddersfield, England | |||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track, road | |||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||
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| 2022 | CAMS–Basso | |||||||||||
| 2023 | Lifeplus Wahoo | |||||||||||
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Maddie (Madelaine) Leech (born 4 May 2003) is an English international cyclist.[1] In 2022, she represented England at the Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit.[2][3] She currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Lifeplus–Wahoo.[4]
Biography
[edit]Leech rode for Huddersfield Star Wheelers before joining CAMS-Basso, she was part of winning teams in the European Junior Championship team pursuit and World Junior Championship road race.[5] She won the silver medal in the Madison and a bronze medal in the Omnium at the 2022 British National Track Championships.[6]
In 2022, she was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She competed in four events, winning a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit. She also rode in the points race, the women's individual pursuit event, finishing in 12th place and the women's road race.[2][5]
Leech won her first national title at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, after she won the Team Pursuit riding for Team Inspired.[7] The following year, at the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships, she repeated the achievement, winning a second team pursuit national title for Team Inspired.[8]
Major results
[edit]Road
[edit]- 2021
- 5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
- 7th Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
- 2023
- 1st
Time trial, National Under-23 Championships - 2024
- 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
Track
[edit]- 2021
- 1st
Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships - 2022
- 3rd
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games - 2023
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Sophie Lewis)
- 1st
- 1st Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2024
- 1st Team pursuit, National Championships
References
[edit]- ^ "Points Maddie Leech". British Cycling. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Official Commonwealth Games profile". Birmingham Organising Committee Commonwealth Games Ltd. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Neil Fachie wins Scotland's first gold as England claim team pursuit bronze". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Team". Lifeplus Wahoo. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
- ^ a b "Team England profile". Team England. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Maddie Leech results". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "2023 British Cycling Track Championships Results". Velo UK. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ "National Track Championships 2024: Jody Cundy wins national title on return". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- 2003 births
- Living people
- English female cyclists
- British female cyclists
- English track cyclists
- British track cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Huddersfield
- Cyclists from Yorkshire