Adam Duggleby
Based
Leeds
From
Leeds
Date of birth
16/10/1984
Team
A champion rider in his own right, and a former junior Great Britain Cycling Team colleague of Mark Cavendish and Ed Clancy, Duggleby formed a potent Paralympic pairing with Steve Bate, piloting his partner to world championship gold medals on the road and track.
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Biography
Duggleby was selected for the Tokyo Paralympics, in the B category, to ride on the track in the individual pursuit and the road race and time trial on the road.
With his partner Bate, Duggleby warmed up for the Games by helping Bate win gold in the individual time trial at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Portugal in June 2021. It was the latest in a long series of successes that resumed after Duggleby left the GB junior programme to study at university.
After graduation, he resumed his cycling career, winning his biggest individual title to date when he won the scratch race at the British Cycling National Track Championships in 2012.
A year later, Duggleby joined British Cycling’s Paralympic Development Programme, teaming with Bate to become British national road and time trial champions as well as winning the Tandem Tour of Holland in their first year together.
These early results were enough to see them selected for the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships where they finished sixth in the pursuit with a personal best of 4:27.299.
However, as their partnership hit its stride, it was on the road where they really started to make an impact finishing on the podium in the road race and the time trial at the first World Cup of the season in Maniago, Italy, in June 2015. They finished the year in fine fashion, winning a gold medal in the time-trial at the final UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup of the year in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, as well as picking up a bronze in the road race.
A golden 2016
With the best year of their career behind them, attention turned to gaining selection for the Paralympic Games in Rio.
They began their season with the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Italy knocking a huge chunk off their personal best, and just missing out on a medal with a time of 4.16.555.
They were then selected for the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Ostend, Belgium, in May where a bronze in the time-trial was enough to see the pairing selected for their first Paralympic Games.
In Rio they dominated the tandem endurance events, setting a new world record in qualifying to win gold in the tandem pursuit on the track, adding gold in the time-trial on the road and rounding off a magnificent 10 days by picking up a bronze medal in the road race.
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On track for Tokyo
After some time off following their 2016 exploits, the two riders returned to training with one goal for 2017 - become world champions for the first time.
First, however, Duggleby and Bate were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours list, for services to cycling.
They got their season off to a fantastic start, winning gold in the time trial at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Maniago, Italy. The pair’s excellent form on the road continued at their second UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Holland where they picked up bronze medals in the time trial and road race.
That earned the duo selection for the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where they went in search of their first-ever world titles. The pair won silver in the time trial, just missing out on gold by 3.66 seconds - a bittersweet result given they lost 25 seconds in the opening lap due to a mechanical issue. In the road race, despite a brave solo attack, they missed out on the medals in a bunch sprint for silver and bronze, finishing seventh.
The duo made their return to the scene of their greatest success in 2018 - and earned their maiden rainbow stripes. They won gold in the individual pursuit at the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track Championships in Rio de Janeiro to become world champions for the first time in their careers.
The road season soon followed and started with an immediate trip to the podium, with the duo winning silver in the time trial at the opening round of the World Cup in Ostend.
That was followed by selection to the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Italy where the pair became double world champions with their first-ever road world title in the time trial in Maniago.
Further medals have followed on both road and track, with the duo getting themselves back on to the pursuit podium at the world championships in Milton, Canada in 2020, winning a silver medal behind Poland’s Marcin Polak, who took Bate and Duggleby's world record in the process of claiming their rainbow jerseys.
There was some degree of consolation – and a sign that their form was heading in the right direction – in Cascais in June 2021, however, when Bate and Duggleby won the individual time trial at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships.
Palmarès
| 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Cascais (Portugal) | Time trial | Gold |
| 2020 | ||
| UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton (Canada) | pursuit | Silver |
| 2019 | ||
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Emmen (Netherlands) | time trial | Silver |
| 2018 | ||
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Maniago (Italy) | Time trial | Gold |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Ostend (Belgium) | Time trial | Silver |
| UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) | Individual pursuit | Gold |
| 2017 | ||
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) | Time trial | Silver |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Emmen (Holland) | Time trial | Bronze |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Emmen (Holland) | Road race | Bronze |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Maniago (Italy) | Time trial | Gold |
| 2016 | ||
| Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) | Individual pursuit | Gold |
| Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) | Time trial | Gold |
| Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) | Road race | Bronze |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Ostend (Belgium) | Time trial | Bronze |
| 2015 | ||
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) | Time trial | Gold |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) | Road race | Bronze |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Maniago (Italy) | Road race | Silver |
| UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup, Maniago (Italy) | Time trial | Bronze |
