Fin's Profile

Scottish-born C3 rider Fin Graham has proven himself both on the track and on the road in the first few years of an already accomplished elite level para-cycling career. This summer he will head to his second Paralympic Games as part of a 23-strong Great Britain squad aiming to bring home multiple accolades from Paris.

A product of the Great Britain Cycling Team development programme, Scotland’s Graham was born with bilateral club feet, which left him with no calf muscle and little to no movement in his ankles.

Having fallen in love with cycling at the age of four, Graham began competing in mountain biking three years later and raced across Scotland. He caught the attention of British Cycling’s para-cycling coaches in 2016 at a talent identification day in Derby.

In 2017, he claimed his first national para-cycling road title and was selected for his first world championships on the road in 2018. There, he secured a top-10 finish in the road race, underlining his potential.

He made his debut at a UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in 2019, where he finished agonisingly close to a medal in both the 1km time-trial and individual pursuit but, before the end of the year, Graham would announce his arrival on the world stage.

At the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Baie-Comeau in Canada in August, Graham was in dominant form as he pulled off the double of winning both the road race and individual time-trial, where he edged countryman Ben Watson into second place.

Following the delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Graham headed to Tokyo to make his Paralympic debut in 2021, having secured his first medal at a UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships earlier that year – a bronze in the road race in Cascais, Portugal. The young Scot also finished just out of the medals, in fifth, in the time-trial.

In Tokyo, he proved his ability on both track and road, taking two silver medals, missing out on the top step to his teammates in both cases – to Ben Watson in the road race, and Jaco van Gass in the individual pursuit on the track, in what was a glittering event overall for the Great Britain Cycling Team.

Brimming with confidence, Graham took the 2022 season by storm, scoring a series of victories in road world cups and at the Para European championships, and taking the first rainbow jerseys of his career on both the road and the track. This included a win at the Para Road World Championships road race in Canada, and a silver in the time-trial. Following this, Graham put in an outstanding performance at the UCI Para Track World Championships in Paris, winning four golds, completely dominating in the C3 category.

The years since have been mixed for Graham. A series of strong world cup results on the road in 2023 foreshadowed his successful world championship defence in Glasgow in the road race – he also equalled his 2022 performance in the time-trial, taking silver in Dumfries & Galloway. On the track in Glasgow, the young Scot was able to defend one of his four rainbow jerseys on home soil, with gold in the individual pursuit, taking three silver medals in the other events.

So far in 2024 as he builds towards the Paralympics in Paris, he has taken silver medals in the individual pursuit and 1km time-trial events at the UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he also took bronze in the omnium. 

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