# Owain Doull

Owain Daniel Doull (born 2 May 1993) 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.

## Career history

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 and started cycling for the Maindy Flyers at 14.
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.
Doull turned professional for the 2014 road season with An Post–Chain Reaction. Doull represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014.
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, rejecting an offer to switch to road racing full-time with Team Europcar. 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. In August 2016, Doull signed on with Team Sky as a stagiaire for the remainder of the season.
Doull was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling. Doull kicked off his 2018 season with an appearance in the Tour Down Under.
In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España.

## 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

#### 2024

    5th Road race, National Championships

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | DNF |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | 90 |
| Vuelta a España | 70 | — | — | — |
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)