![]() Maddie Leech (2021) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Huddersfield, England | 4 May 2003||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
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]
She is from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. [12]