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Born | Plymouth, UK [1] | 27 January 2002||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | ARA Skip Capital | ||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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2023– | ARA Skip Capital | ||||||||||||||
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Oliver Bleddyn (born 27 January 2002) is an Australian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team ARA Skip Capital. [2] He won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
He is from Western Australia and started bike racing at 12 years-old. He attended Frederick Irwin Anglican School and Applecross Senior High School. In 2018, he joined the Western Australian Institute of Sport. He won an Oceania U19 title in the team pursuit and won a silver in the individual pursuit. In 2021, he started training at the South Australia Institute for Sport. [3] [4]
He won gold with the team pursuit at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Brisbane in 2022. [5]
He finished third in the time trial at the Oceania Road Cycling Championships in 2023. [6] He competed for Australia in the team pursuit and individual pursuit at the 2023 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. [7] [8]
He competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the team pursuit, winning the gold medal. [4] [9]
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