 Ed Lowe (2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Edward Owen Lowe | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 August 2003 Stamford, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Inspired / GBCT | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | "Man 1" Team Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Track Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ed Lowe OLY (born 24 August 2003) is an English track cyclist who competes in sprint events. Representing Great Britain, he won a silver medal in the team sprint at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Growing up in Stamford, Lincolnshire, Lowe's first experience of cycling came through the Fenland Clarion Cycling Club. [1] [2] [3] Later he rode in endurance races regionally and nationally for Bourne Wheelers before switching to track cycling in 2018. [1] [3]
He was selected for the Great Britain Cycling Team (GBCT) apprenticeship scheme at 15 and, two years later, he was enrolled into the Junior GBCT programme, going on to become a team sprint European Junior Champion. [1]
As part of Team Inspired he won a gold medal at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships in the team sprint. [1] Lowe took part in his first elite level Nations Cup in Canada in April 2023, helping the team win a bronze medal. [2]
He moved up to the GBCT podium squad in October 2023. [4] In February 2024, he was a member of the British team that pipped China by 0.3 seconds, in the minor final, to secure bronze at the Nations Cup event in Australia. [2] [5] [6] He followed that performance up later in the month by winning a second successive national team sprint title with Team Inspired at the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships. [5] Returning to Canada in April 2024, Lowe and his teammates secured Nations Cup silver medals, losing out in the final to the Netherlands. [2] [7] [8]
On 24 June 2024, Lowe was named in the Great Britain team sprint line-up for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [3] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] At the Games in Paris, he led out the team, also including Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin, to the second fastest qualifying time of 41.862 seconds. [14] They defeated Germany in the semi-finals but lost out in the final to the Netherlands, who set a new world record, leaving Lowe and his teammates to settle for silver. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
Lowe attended St Gilbert's Primary School, Stamford and The King's School, Peterborough. [20] [21]
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