Megan Armitage
Cycling
BIOGRAPHY
Megan Armitage became the first Irish woman to compete at the Olympic Games in road cycling in 30 years when she rode the women’s road race at the Paris 2024 Olympics, finishing 35th in the 158km race.
Her result would have been significantly better had she not been caught behind a crash on the Montmartre loop with 48km to go. Armitage’s journey to the Olympics is one of the more remarkable in Irish sport. From Shinrone, Co. Offaly, she was a marathon runner while studying law and French at University College Dublin. She only took up cycling seriously during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, moved to Belgium with her partner – Australian professional cyclist Cyrus Monk – to race on the kermesse circuit, and was runner-up at the Irish National Road Championships in just her second year.
In March 2023 she became the first Irish female rider to win a UCI-ranked stage race when she claimed the overall victory at the Vuelta Extremadura Féminas in Spain. Two concussions in 2023, one of which ruled her out of the Tour de France Femmes, presented serious setbacks before she secured a professional contract with EF Education-Oatly ahead of Paris.
She stepped away from professional cycling in early 2025.
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