Mia Griffin
Cycling
BIOGRAPHY
Mia Griffin represented Ireland in the women’s team pursuit and Madison at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games – the first time Ireland had ever qualified in the team pursuit.
The quartet of Griffin, Lara Gillespie, Kelly Murphy and Alice Sharpe set a new national record of 4:12.447 in qualifying but narrowly missed the next round in 9th place. With Sharpe in the Madison she finished 11th.
Griffin grew up in Kilkenny, where she played camogie for Glenmore and at minor county level. She only took up cycling at 18, in 2017, when her mother Maria spotted a Cycling Ireland talent transfer programme advertisement on the campus of what is now South-East Technological University and brought it to her attention. She won bronze in the individual pursuit at the European Under-23 Track Championships in 2020 and was part of the team that won bronze at the 2021 European Track Championships in the team pursuit.
She raced with Israel Premier Tech Roland on the Women’s World Tour in 2023. She is the only Irish woman to have started and finished Paris-Roubaix, though a severe concussion in that race kept her off the bike for five months.
Following the Paris Olympics she won Rás na mBan in 2024, becoming the first Irish winner of the race in 11 years.
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