Emma Finucane

Emma Marion Finucane ( fin-OO-kən; born 22 December 2002) is a Welsh track cyclist. She is an Olympic gold medallist in the team sprint, a double world and European champion in the sprint, and a world and European champion in the team sprint. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she became the first British woman to win three medals at a single games since Mary Rand in 1964. In 2019, Finucane became the Junior European champion in the 500 m time trial. At the senior level, Finucane won two bronze medals for Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in the sprint and the team sprint, and she became a world champion for the first time at the 2023 World Track Cycling Championships when she triumphed in the sprint. Her victory made her the third British woman to become world sprint champion, after Victoria Pendleton and Becky James. Finucane earned further success in 2024, becoming the European champion in the sprint, winning three gold medals at the Track Cycling Nations Cup in Hong Kong, and then winning her first Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. There, she was a member of the British team sprint line-up who set a new world record on their way to gold, and she added two further bronze medals in the sprint and the keirin. She completed 2024 by becoming a world champion in the team sprint for the first time, and she also successfully defended her world sprint title. At the 2026 Commonwealth Games, she won four gold medals and became simultaneously Wales' most decorated female athlete in the history of the competition, and the first sprint cyclist, male or female, to win all four track sprint events in the history of the Games.