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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023-2024 | Lifeplus Wahoo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Handsling Alba Development Road Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 was a two-time medalist at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships. She has ridden for UCI Women's Continental Team Lifeplus–Wahoo.[4] and currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Alba Development Racing Team
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]
In June 2023, she became British U23 time trial champion. She then competed on the track at the U23 European Track Championships in Portugal, winning the U23 Team Pursuit alongside Sophie Lewis, Grace Lister and Kate Richardson. She also won in the U23 wonen’s Madison with Sophie Lewis.[7] Leech won her first senior national title at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, after she won the Team Pursuit riding for Team Inspired.[8] 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.[9]
She competed for Great Britain at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships in Belgium, where she won a silver medal in the women's omnium.[10] She also finished in sixth place in the women’s Madison alongside Neah Evans, and won a bronze medal at the championships in the women's team pursuit.[11]
Personal life
[edit]She is from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.[12]
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]- ^ "rPoints 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.
- ^ Downes, Steven (19 July 2023). "LINDLEY'S MADDIE LEECH BECOMES A EUROPEAN CYCLING CHAMPION – AND THERE'S NO STOPPING HER". Huddersfield Hub. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Charlton wins GB's first European gold in Belgium". BBC Sport. 14 February 2025. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- ^ "SILVER SUCCESS FOR EDMUNDS ON FINAL DAY OF 2025 UEC TRACK ELITE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Cycling. 16 February 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ "Maddie Leech on balancing road and track challenges at start of professional cycling career". Yorkshire Post. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2025.