Rhian Edmunds
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| Born | 4 April 2003[1] Newport, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Newport Velo Youth CC[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | sprint, team sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rhian Edmunds (born 4 April 2003) is a British and Welsh track cyclist. She was a bronze medalist representing Wales in the team sprint at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was a three-time silver medalist representing Great Britain at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships, winning the medals in the team sprint, individual sprint and the kierin.[3][4]
Edmunds became a double British champion when winning the sprint and team sprint events at the 2022 British National Track Championships.[5][6] Later that year, she claimed a bronze medal representing Wales in the team sprint at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, racing alongside Emma Finucane and Lowri Thomas.[7]
She competed on the track at the U23 European Track Championships in Portugal, winning the gold medal in the U23 Team Sprint.[8]
She finished as runner-up in the women’s kierin to Lauren Bell at the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships, in Manchester.[9][10]
At the 2025 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup, Edmunds was part of the British team sprint line-up that finished the event with a silver medal.[11] She was runner-up to Bell in the individual sprint at the 2025 British Cycling National Track Championships.[12] She competed for Great Britain at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, winning a silver medal in the women’s kierin event, pipped to gold by nine-thousandths of a second by Dutch racer Steffie van der Peet.[13] She also won a silver medal at the championships in the women’s individual sprint competition, edged out in the final by Yana Burlakova.[14] Partnering with Lauren Bell and Rhianna Parris-Smith, she was also a silver medalist in the women's team sprint, finishing runners-up to the Netherlands team.[15]
