Emma Finucane

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Emma Marion Finucane ( fin-OO-kən; born 22 December 2002) is a Welsh track cyclist. She is an Olympic gold medallist in the team sprint, a double world and 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, she 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 earned 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...

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