Strathpeffer Paralympic Games gold medallist receives MBE as he is named in New Year’s Honours list to honour stellar cycling career
Paralympic Games gold medallist Fin Graham has received an MBE after being named in the New Year’s Honour list.
The 25-year-old from Strathpeffer was given the award for his services to cycling where he has established himself as one of the top para-cyclists in the world.
The former Dingwall Academy pupil, who is now based in Manchester, won the biggest title of his career in September when he won a gold medal in the Men’s C1-3 Road Race for Great Britain.
He also claimed a silver medal at the 2024 Paralympics Games in the C3 Individual Pursuit.
He added it to the two silver medals he won at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo in the C3 Individual Pursuit and Road Race C1-C3.
Graham is the current and three-time world champion in the C3 Road Race, winning the title in Zurich 2024 to add to his triumphs in Glasgow in 2023 and Baie-Comeau in 2022.
In addition, he is a four-time world champion in track cycling as well a European champion in 2022.
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 and later relocated to Manchester where he has based since.
