Lowri Thomas
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| Born | 3 March 1999[1] Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lowri Thomas (born 3 March 1999) is a British and Welsh track cyclist.[2]
Cycling career
[edit]Thomas became a British Champion when winning the team sprint event at the 2022 British National Track Championships alongside teammates Emma Finucane and Rhian Edmunds.[3][4] In April 2022, Thomas, Finucane and Edmunds once again combined to win a bronze medal in the team sprint in round one of the 2022 UCI Nations Cup in Glasgow, setting a new British record in the process. The trio then went on to win bronze in the team sprint at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Welsh team outperformed all the other home nations, and beating Australia in the Bronze medal ride off, to take third spot on the podium behind New Zealand and Canada.[5]
She will make her elite world championships debut at the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Denmark.[6]
Major results
[edit]- 2022
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Team sprint
- 1st
- UCI Nations Cup
- 3rd
Team sprint (Round 1, Glasgow)
- 3rd
- Commonwealth Games
- 3rd Team sprint (with Emma Finucane and Rhian Edmunds)
- 3rd
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". UCI. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "News: British Track Championships in Wales". Velo UK. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "2022 National Track Championships". British Cycling. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ "Welsh teenagers light up home cycling championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Cyclist Emma Finucane claims second bronze medal". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "11 Olympic medallists to represent Great Britain at Tissot UCI Track World Championships". British Cycling. 7 October 2024. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
External links
[edit]- Lowri Thomas at UCI
- Lowri Thomas at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Lowri Thomas at Team Wales
- Lowri Thomas at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- Living people
- 1999 births
- British track cyclists
- Welsh track cyclists
- Welsh female cyclists
- British female cyclists
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Abergavenny
- British cycling biography stubs
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