Ryan Mullen
Cycling
BIOGRAPHY
Ryan Mullen represented Ireland in the road cycling events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
A specialist time trialist, Mullen is one of the most decorated Irish road cyclists of his generation – a seven-time Irish national time trial champion and three-time national road race champion, becoming the youngest ever Irish elite road race champion when he won the title aged 19 in 2014.
Born in Birkenhead, England, he grew up in Colwyn Bay, Wales, and qualifies for Ireland through his grandparents, who are from Duleek, Co. Meath. He attended Ysgol Eirias school in Colwyn Bay – the same school as British Cycling’s legendary performance director Dave Brailsford – and raced with Rhos on Sea Cycling Club as a youth. He won silver at the Under-23 World Championships time trial in 2014, finishing half a second from gold, and finished 5th in the senior World Championships time trial in 2016 and bronze at the European Championships time trial in 2017.
He won a stage at the Vuelta a San Juan in 2018 and spent four seasons on the WorldTour with Trek-Segafredo before joining Bora-Hansgrohe.
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