Ryan Owens (cyclist)

Ryan Owens

Personal information
Born	(1995-09-29) 29 September 1995 (age 29) Maulden, Bedfordshire, England
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Team information
Current team	Great Britain Cycling Team/SES Racing
Discipline	Track cycling
Role	Rider
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  Great Britain Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 0 2 0 European Games 0 0 1 European Championships 0 2 0 Commonwealth Games 0 2 0 Total 0 7 1 Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team sprint World Championships 2018 Apeldoorn Team sprint 2020 Berlin Team sprint European Games 2019 Minsk Team sprint European Championships 2016 Yvelines Team sprint 2019 Apeldoorn Team sprint Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Team sprint 2022 Birmingham Team sprint

Ryan Owens (born 29 September 1995) is a British former track cyclist, specialising in sprint events, who represented Great Britain and England at international competitions. He won a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the team sprint alongside Jack Carlin and Jason Kenny.

Owens grew up around cycling, with both his father and grandfather having raced competitively. He was competing by the age of 16. His first national-level achievement was a second place in the time trial at the 2011 National Junior Track Championships in the under-16 category.^[1]

Owens is a consecutive four-time British team sprint champion having won the Team Sprint Championship at the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 British National Track Championships.^[2] He also won the Individual Sprint title at the 2017 British National Track Championships.

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Owens won silver in the team sprint event alongside Joseph Truman and Philip Hindes.^[3]

On 21 June 2021, Owens was named in the Great Britain squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.^[4] He competed in the team sprint alongside Jason Kenny and Jack Carlin, winning a silver medal behind the Olympic Record-setting Dutch team.^[5][6]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Owens won a silver medal – his second Commonwealth Games medal – in the team sprint, this time with Truman and Hamish Turnbull.^[7] He was knocked out in the 1/8 finals of the sprint event by eventual champion Matthew Richardson.^[8]

Owens announced his retirement from track cycling and the Great Britain Cycling Team in April 2024. He achieved a Master's in Business Administration at London Business School and is now working in consulting.^[9]

• List of European records in track cycling

• Ryan Owens at British Cycling
• Ryan Owens at UCI
• Ryan Owens at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Ryan Owens at CycleBase
• Ryan Owens at Olympics.com
• Ryan Owens at Olympedia
• Ryan Owens at Team GB
• Ryan Owens at Team England
• Ryan Owens at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games