A documentary has been made about the young life and meteoric rise of Welsh cyclist and Olympic hero Emma Finucane. The cycling star, 22, made history in Paris last summer when she became the first British woman in 60 years to win three medals at the same Olympic Games and the first Welsh athlete to ever achieve that feat. The Paris Olympics was not the Carmarthen cyclist’s first taste of success by a long shot - in 2022 she came home from the Commonwealth Games having won two bronze medals for Wales, while in 2023 she won a gold medal at the World Championships in Glasgow, a feat she repeated last year at the 2024 championships in Denmark. It’s all a far cry from when Finucane used to whizz around the historic velodrome at Carmarthen Park as a young girl with Towy Riders cycle club, a group which is still going strong today. Stay informed on Carms news by signing up to our newsletter here . Now, a Cardiff-based student has made a “powerful short documentary” capturing Finucane’s rise to the top of world cycling. The film - Pedal to Paris: The Emma Finucane Story - will premiere at Nantgaredig Rugby Club, in partnership with Towy Riders, next Monday. The film will then be made publicly available the following day, on Tuesday, June 3. We caught up with Finucane at Carmarthen Park last year , just weeks after she returned home from Paris with three Olympic medals around her neck. “I remember, when I was seven years old, coming here with my brother and sister,” she said. “We lived just across the road. I would go round and round the track on my little pink bike with tassels on it. That was it - I was hooked.” On her success, she said: “It has changed my life. I’m still the same old Emma, but you are kind of in a bubble at the Olympics so you don’t really see what’s going on around you. "But then you come back home and I’ve been asked for pictures in Tesco a couple of times and people say: ‘Ooh, I’ve seen you on the telly!’ “I love it. I love being home and coming back to see everyone. I’m very honoured to be asked to attend events. I don’t come home often and to be recognised for what I’ve done at the Olympics is amazing. “As athletes we obviously have our own ambitions in terms of winning but I want people to watch us and get on their bikes. I want to inspire people to get out there and cycle - it’s a healthy way of life. "Sport is amazing, it gives you energy, and I want to use my platform to help young girls and boys get into sprint cycling.”