Ethan Boyes

Ethan Boyes (November 14, 1978 – April 4, 2023) was an American cyclist who was the holder of a national record for the "flying start".

Boyes was born in Anchorage, Alaska, and had an older and a younger brother; the family later moved to North Carolina, where he studied culinary arts at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte. He worked in the Virgin Islands, in Southern California, and in the Santa Barbara area as a sous-chef and a chef.

Boyes moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 2000s. He worked as a bicycle courier before entering competitive cycling, initially as a distance cyclist and then as a sprinter. He trained at Hellyer Park Velodrome in San Jose. He won ten USA Cycling national championships in track cycling, in 2015 set a world performance record for the 1,000-meter time trial in the 35–39 age group, and on September 24, 2018, set a national record of 26.461 seconds for the 500-meter track time trial flying start, both current as of April 2023^[update]. In 2022 he became Masters' Track World Champion in time trial and sprint in the 40–44 age group and was on the winning team sprint team.

A resident of San Francisco, Boyes died there on April 4, 2023, after a driver struck him while he was riding in the Presidio. He was 44.