Emma Finucane
Finucane in 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Emma Marion Finucane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 December 2002 Carmarthen, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Inspired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprint, Time trial, Keirin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emma Finucane (/fɪˈnuːkən/ fin-OO-kən; born 22 December 2002) is a Welsh track cyclist. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the team sprint, a two-time world champion and one-time European champion in the sprint, and a world and European champion in the team sprint. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she became the first British woman to win three medals at a single games since Mary Rand in 1964.
In 2019, Finucane became the Junior European champion in the 500 m time trial. At the senior level, Finucane won two bronze medals for Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in the sprint and the team sprint, and she became a world champion for the first time at the 2023 World Track Cycling Championships when she triumphed in the sprint. Her victory made her the third British woman to become world sprint champion, after Victoria Pendleton and Becky James. Finucane enjoyed further success in 2024, becoming the European champion in the sprint, winning three gold medals at the Track Cycling Nations Cup in Hong Kong, and then winning her first Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. There, she was a member of the British team sprint line-up who set a new world record on their way to gold, and she added two further bronze medals in the sprint and the keirin. She completed 2024 by becoming a world champion in the team sprint for the first time, and she also successfully defended her world sprint title.