Charles Tanfield (born 17 November 1996) is a British racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Continental team Saint Piran and the Great Britain national track cycling team.
He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris winning the silver medal in the Team pursuit. He also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the team pursuit. [5]
Tanfield was the 2018 Commonwealth Games individual pursuit champion, the 2018 World Championships team pursuit world champion and 2024 UEC European Track Championships team pursuit champion.
Tanfield grew up in Great Ayton in North Yorkshire. [6] He attended Stokesley School. [7]
He rode in the men's team pursuit event at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, winning the gold medal. [8] [9] Tanfield won silver in the team pursuit and gold in the individual pursuit at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where he set of time of 4:11.455, [10] the third fastest individual pursuit time in history. Tanfield went on to claim a second silver in the team pursuit at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. [11]
Tanfield won two more national titles at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships bringing his total to five at the time. He won the individual pursuit for the second time and the team pursuit for the third time. [12]
He went on to win a silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit, his second Olympic Games.
His brother Harry Tanfield is also a cyclist and a silver medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games road time trial. [13] They were both born on the same day two years apart.
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