Maeve Plouffe (cycling) was part of the women’s 4000m pursuit team that set a Commonwealth Games record in the final to take gold at London’s Lee Valley VeloPark, the cycling venue for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Maeve also added a silver medal to her collection in the women’s 3000m individual pursuit

Born in Sydney, her family spent time in Singapore before moving to Adelaide where Maeve was a budding open water swimmer and surf lifesaver before taking up cycling aged 14 after being talent-spotted by the South Australian Sports Institute. She made her debut in green and gold at the 2017 Junior Track World Championships, finishing in the top six in both the team pursuit and Madison.

Maeve joined the Australian Cycling Team’s Podium Potential Academy for its inaugural class in late 2018 and claimed three national track titles in early 2019 which saw her promoted to the Podium squad. Oceania and World Cup titles followed then her elite world championships debut in Berlin in February 2020 where she claimed a top-10 finish in the 3000m individual pursuit.

She was the youngest member of the women’s cycling team at her Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2021 where she was a member of the team pursuit squad that finished fifth. At the 2022 Nations Cup in Milton, she became just the third rider to break the 3 minutes 20 second barrier in the individual pursuit.

Maeve won the inaugural Warrnambool Women’s Cycling Classic and a stage of the Tour Down Under in 2022 before joining top-level women’s outfit Team DSM ahead of her first full Women’s WorldTour season in 2023.

A dual Australian-Canadian citizen, Maeve is completing degrees in law and marine biology at the University of Adelaide.