Ryan Mullen

Ryan Mullen
	Mullen in 2022
Personal information
Full name	Ryan William Mullen
Born	7 August 1994 (age 29); Birkenhead, England
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Team information
Current team	Bora–Hansgrohe
Disciplines	Road; Track;
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist
Amateur teams
2008–2010	Rhos on Sea CC
2011–2012	Planet X
Professional teams
2013	Team IG–Sigma Sport
2014–2015	An Post–Chain Reaction
→ 2015	Cannondale–Garmin (stagiaire)
2016–2017	Cannondale
2018–2021	Trek–Segafredo
2022–	Bora–Hansgrohe
Major wins
	One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2014, 2017, 2021) National Time Trial Championships; (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023)
Medal record
Representing Ireland
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
European Championships

Ryan William Mullen (born 7 August 1994) is an Irish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe.^[5]

Career edit

Born in Birkenhead, England, Mullen attended Ysgol Eirias in Colwyn Bay, Wales. While he was attending Ysgol Eirias, Mullen was a member of Rhos on Sea Cycling Club, the same club as Ineos Grenadiers general manager and former head of British Cycling Dave Brailsford. In February 2014, Mullen finished 4th in the Elite Men's Individual Pursuit at the UCI track world championships in Cali, Colombia. At the 2014 Irish National championships in Multyfarnham, Westmeath, Mullen became the youngest ever Irish Elite Road Race champion. On the same weekend he also won the U23 Individual Time Trial and Road Race titles.

He took the silver in the under-23 time trial at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships in Ponferrada, finishing half a second behind winner Campbell Flakemore of Australia.^[6] He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where he came seventh in the individual pursuit.^[7]^[8] Mullen won the Irish national time trial championship in 2015, becoming the youngest ever rider to take the title.^[9] In August 2015, it was announced that he had signed to ride in the UCI World Tour for Cannondale from 2016.^[10] Mullen rode with Cannondale–Garmin as a stagiaire in the 2015 Tour of Britain, then competed in under-23 time trial at the 2015 world championships. He was at a disadvantage because he did his ride in wet conditions and finished eleventh, 49 seconds behind the winner, Mads Würtz Schmidt.^[11]

Trek–Segafredo (2018–2021) edit

In September 2017 it was confirmed that he would join Trek–Segafredo for the 2018 season.^[12] Mullen's first race for the team was the Vuelta a San Juan, he went on to win the Time-Trial on stage 3.^[13] In an interview with Cyclingnews.com Mullen confirmed he was likely to make his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia, where he was targeting the Time-Trial on stage 1 in Jerusalem.^[14] He did make his Grand Tour début in the race, finishing 138th overall.

Bora–Hansgrohe edit

After four seasons with Trek–Segafredo, Mullen moved to the Bora–Hansgrohe team for the 2022 season along with his compatriot Sam Bennett, who had moved from Deceuninck–Quick-Step.^[15]