Ed Clancy

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Ed Clancy
OBE
2019 UEC Track Elite European Championships 118.jpg
Clancy in 2019
Personal information
Full nameEdward Franklin Clancy
Born (1985-03-12) 12 March 1985 (age 38) [1]
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) [1]
Weight78 kg (172 lb) [1]
Team information
Current teamRetired
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeEndurance
Amateur teams
2005–2006Sparkasse
2006 Landbouwkrediet–Colnago (stagiaire)
2020–2021Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy [2]
Professional teams
2007–2008 Landbouwkrediet–Tönissteiner
2009 Team Halfords [3]
2010 Motorpoint–Marshalls Pasta
2011–2018 Rapha Condor–Sharp
2019 Vitus Pro Cycling Team p/b Brother UK
Major wins
Track
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
(2008, 2012, 2016)
Team pursuit, World Championships
(2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2018)
Omnium, World Championships (2010)

Edward Franklin Clancy OBE (born 12 March 1985) is a British former professional track and road bicycle racer, who competed between 2004 and 2021.

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During his career, Clancy won four medals (three gold, one bronze) at the Summer Olympic Games, twelve medals (six gold, five silver and one bronze) at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, seven medals (five gold, two bronze) at the UEC European Track Championships, as well as a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He also was part of eight world record times in the team pursuit, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours, [4] and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling. [5]

Career

On 17 August 2008, Clancy was a member of the Olympic team pursuit squad which broke the world record in the heats with 3:55.202, beating Russia to the ride-off for silver and gold. [6] The next day, on their way to winning the gold medal, the British team broke their own world record in 3:53.314, beating Denmark by 6.7 seconds. [7]

On 4 April 2012, Clancy was part of the Great Britain team which set a new world record of 3:53.295 in winning the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2012 World Track Cycling Championships in Melbourne. [8]

After the 2012 Olympic Games, where he set a time of 1:00.981 in the Omnium Kilo Time Trial, British Cycling announced that Clancy would replace Sir Chris Hoy in the Great Britain team for the team sprint event, where he rode in the Man 3 position. Despite finishing 2nd in the Glasgow round of the World Cup, Clancy returned to the endurance team for the 2013 World Championships.

In November 2018, it was announced that Clancy would join the Vitus Pro Cycling Team p/b Brother UK for the 2019 season, after the JLT–Condor team which he had been part of for eight years confirmed that it would be disbanding at the end of the year. [9]

In August 2021, during the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, Clancy announced his retirement. [10] His final competition was the 2021 UCI Track Champions League, which concluded in December of that year with a double header at the Lee Valley VeloPark. [11]

In February 2023 Clancy was announced as the new active travel commissioner for South Yorkshire, following Dame Sarah Storey and working for South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard. [12]

Personal life

He lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.[ citation needed ]

Career achievements

Major results

Road

2005
4th Overall Tour de Berlin
1st Stage 1
2006
10th Overall Tour de Berlin
2007
2nd National Criterium Championships
2009
1st Eddy Soens Memorial Road Race
1st Southport, Tour Series
2010
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Criterium Championships
2011
1st Aberystwyth, Tour Series
1st Stage 5 Tour de Korea
2012
1st Peterborough, Tour Series
2013
Tour Series
1st Aberystwyth
1st Torquay
1st Woking
2015
Tour Series
1st Aberystwyth
1st Peterborough
1st London Nocturne
3rd Milk Race
2018
1st London Nocturne
1st Prologue Herald Sun Tour

Track

2004
National Championships
2nd Madison (with Mark Cavendish)
2nd Team pursuit
2005
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit, National Championships
UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
2006
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit, National Championships
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Team pursuit, Moscow
3rd Team pursuit, Sydney
2007
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Team pursuit, Manchester
1st Team pursuit, Sydney
1st Team pursuit, Beijing
National Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Kilo
2008
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Team pursuit, Copenhagen
1st Individual pursuit, Manchester
1st Team pursuit, Manchester
2009
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Team pursuit, Copenhagen
1st Team pursuit, Manchester
2nd Team pursuit, Melbourne
2nd Kilo, National Championships
2010
UCI World Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Omnium
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Omnium, Cali
3rd Omnium, Melbourne
3rd Team pursuit, Melbourne
2011
UEC European Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Manchester
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2012
Olympic Games
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit
3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Omnium
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UCI World Cup
2nd Team pursuit, London
2nd Team sprint, Glasgow
2013
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
National Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
2nd Kilo
2nd Scratch
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2014
UEC European Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Scratch
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2015
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2016
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2017
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
2018
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UCI World Cup
2nd Team pursuit, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
3rd Team pursuit, Milton
2019
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

World records

DisciplineRecordDateEventVelodromeRef
Team pursuit 3:56.32227 March 2008 World Championships Manchester [13]
3:55.20217 August 2008 Olympic Games Laoshan (Beijing) [14]
3:53.31418 August 2008 [15]
3:53.2954 April 2012 World Championships Hisense Arena (Melbourne) [16]
3:52.4992 August 2012 Olympic Games Lee Valley (London) [17]
3:51.6593 August 2012 [18]
3:50.57012 August 2016 Olympic Games Rio Olympic [19]
3:50.265 [20]

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