Maddie Leech (2021) | ||||||||||||
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Born | (2003-05-04) 4 May 2003 (age 21) Huddersfield, England | |||||||||||
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Discipline | Track, road | |||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||
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2022 | CAMS–Basso | |||||||||||
2023 | Lifeplus Wahoo | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Maddie (Madelaine) Leech (born 4 May 2003) is an English international cyclist. In 2022, she represented England at the Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit. She currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Lifeplus–Wahoo.
Biography
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. She won the silver medal in the Madison and a bronze medal in the Omnium at the 2022 British National Track Championships.
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.
Leech won her first national title at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, after she won the Team Pursuit riding for Team Inspired. 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.
Major results
Road
- 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
- 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 Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2024
- 1st Team pursuit, National Championships
References
- "Points Maddie Leech". British Cycling. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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