Kian Emadi

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Kian Emadi-Coffin
UCI Track World Championships 2018 344.jpg
Personal information
Born (1992-07-29) 29 July 1992 (age 32)
Stoke-on-Trent, England
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight84 kg (185 lb)
Team information
Discipline Track cycling
RoleRider
Rider typeEndurance
Sprinter (formerly)
Professional team
2012–present Sky Track Cycling
Major wins
Track
Team pursuit, World Championships (2018)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Yvelines Team pursuit
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Munich Team pursuit
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Glasgow Team sprint
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Team pursuit

Kian Emadi-Coffin (born 29 July 1992) is a former [1] British track cyclist. [2] He has represented Great Britain and England at international level, and is a three-time British National Track champion. Originally a sprinter, he transferred following injury to the endurance squad, and in 2018 won a gold medal as part of the team pursuit squad for Great Britain at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

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Career

Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Emadi-Coffin started cycling competitively at the age of 13, and raced in many disciplines (track, road and cyclo-cross), before concentrating on the sprint disciplines of track racing. Emadi moved to Manchester at the age of 18 as a member of the British Cycling Podium Programme. [3]

He represented Great Britain at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [4] He won his first senior medal, a silver in the team sprint, at the latter event.

After suffering a back injury in September 2014, which limited the amount of gym work he could do to attempt to secure a place in the British team sprint squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Emadi-Coffin switched to the endurance squad. [5]

In December 2022, following the recurrence of a back injury, Emadi-Coffin stepped away from the British team, and retired as a professional cyclist shortly afterwards. [6]

Personal life

Emadi-Coffin, born to an American academic mother and an Iranian father, attended St Peter's Church of England High School and then moved to St Joseph's College Sixth Form in Stoke to study for A-levels.

Major results

Track

2009
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Sprint
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Kilo
3rd Keirin
Apeldoorn Interland
1st Team sprint
2nd Sprint
2nd Elimination
3rd Keirin
2010
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Kilo
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Keirin
2nd Sprint
2011
3rd Team sprint, National Championships
Revolution 33 – 2nd Sprint, Revolution Series
2012
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Kilo, National Championships
2nd Kilo, UCI World Cup, Cali
2nd Sprint omnium, Six Days of Bremen
2013
National Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Kilo
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team sprint
1st Team sprint, Cottbuser Nächte
UCI World Cup
2nd Team sprint, Aguascalientes
3rd Team sprint, Manchester
Dutch Summer Trophy, Alkmaar
2nd Kilo
3rd Sprint
2014
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team sprint, Commonwealth Games
2016
UCI World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Glasgow
3rd Team pursuit, Hong Kong
3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
2017
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
2018
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2019
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2021
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

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