Adam's Profile

Biography

Duggleby was selected for the Tokyo Paralympics, in the B category, to ride on the track in the individual pursuit and the road race and time trial on the road.

With his partner Bate, Duggleby warmed up for the Games by helping Bate win gold in the individual time trial at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Portugal in June 2021. It was the latest in a long series of successes that resumed after Duggleby left the GB junior programme to study at university.

After graduation, he resumed his cycling career, winning his biggest individual title to date when he won the scratch race at the British Cycling National Track Championships in 2012.

A year later, Duggleby joined British Cycling’s Paralympic Development Programme, teaming with Bate to become British national road and time trial champions as well as winning the Tandem Tour of Holland in their first year together.

These early results were enough to see them selected for the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships where they finished sixth in the pursuit with a personal best of 4:27.299.

However, as their partnership hit its stride, it was on the road where they really started to make an impact finishing on the podium in the road race and the time trial at the first World Cup of the season in Maniago, Italy, in June 2015. They finished the year in fine fashion, winning a gold medal in the time-trial at the final UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup of the year in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, as well as picking up a bronze in the road race.

A golden 2016

With the best year of their career behind them, attention turned to gaining selection for the Paralympic Games in Rio.

They began their season with the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Italy knocking a huge chunk off their personal best, and just missing out on a medal with a time of 4.16.555.

They were then selected for the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Ostend, Belgium, in May where a bronze in the time-trial was enough to see the pairing selected for their first Paralympic Games.

In Rio they dominated the tandem endurance events, setting a new world record in qualifying to win gold in the tandem pursuit on the track, adding gold in the time-trial on the road and rounding off a magnificent 10 days by picking up a bronze medal in the road race.

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