Maddie Leech

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Maddie Leech
2021 UEC Track Jun & U23 European Championships 038.jpg
Maddie Leech (2021)
Personal information
Born (2003-05-04) 4 May 2003 (age 22)
Huddersfield, England
Team information
Discipline Track, road
RoleRider
Professional teams
2022 CAMS–Basso
2023-2024 Lifeplus Wahoo
2025 Handsling Alba Development Road Team
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Heusden-Zolder Omnium
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2025 Heusden-Zolder Team pursuit
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Team pursuit

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

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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. [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

She is from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. [12]

Major results

Road

2021
5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
7th Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
2023
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
2024
2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

Track

2021
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships
2022
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2023
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Madison (with Sophie Lewis)
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit, National Championships
2024
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit, National Championships

References

  1. "rPoints Maddie Leech". British Cycling. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Official Commonwealth Games profile". Birmingham Organising Committee Commonwealth Games Ltd. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  3. "Commonwealth Games: Neil Fachie wins Scotland's first gold as England claim team pursuit bronze". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  4. "Team". Lifeplus Wahoo. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Team England profile". Team England. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  6. "Maddie Leech results". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  7. 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.
  8. "2023 British Cycling Track Championships Results". Velo UK. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  9. "National Track Championships 2024: Jody Cundy wins national title on return". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  10. "Charlton wins GB's first European gold in Belgium". BBC Sport. 14 February 2025. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  11. "SILVER SUCCESS FOR EDMUNDS ON FINAL DAY OF 2025 UEC TRACK ELITE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Cycling. 16 February 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  12. "Maddie Leech on balancing road and track challenges at start of professional cycling career". Yorkshire Post. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2025.