Ed Clancy

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Ed Clancy
OBE
Clancy in 2019
Personal information
Full nameEdward Franklin Clancy
Born (1985-03-12) 12 March 1985 (age 39)[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
2006Landbouwkrediet–Colnago (stagiaire)
2020–2021Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy[2]
Professional teams
2007–2008Landbouwkrediet–Tönissteiner
2009Team Halfords[3]
2010Motorpoint–Marshalls Pasta
2011–2018Rapha Condor–Sharp
2019Vitus 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)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Omnium
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Los Angeles Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2007 Palma de Mallorca Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2010 Ballerup Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2012 Melbourne Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2010 Ballerup Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2013 Minsk Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2016 London Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Pruszków Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Guadeloupe Scratch
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Team pursuit

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

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Career achievements[edit]

Major results[edit]

Road[edit]

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 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[edit]

2004
National Championships
2nd Madison (with Mark Cavendish)
2nd Team pursuit
2005
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
1st Team pursuit, National Championships
UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
2006
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Team pursuit, National Championships
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Team pursuit, Moscow
3rd Team pursuit, Sydney
2007
1st 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 Team pursuit, Olympic Games
1st 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 Omnium
2nd Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Omnium, Cali
3rd Omnium, Melbourne
3rd Team pursuit, Melbourne
2011
UEC European Championships
1st Omnium
1st Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Manchester
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2012
Olympic Games
1st Team pursuit
3rd Omnium
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UCI World Cup
2nd Team pursuit, London
2nd Team sprint, Glasgow
2013
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
2nd Kilo
2nd Scratch
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2014
UEC European Championships
1st Team pursuit
3rd Scratch
2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2015
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2016
1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2017
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
2018
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UCI World Cup
2nd Team pursuit, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
3rd Team pursuit, Milton
2019
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

World records[edit]

Discipline Record Date Event Velodrome Ref
Team pursuit 3:56.322 27 March 2008 World Championships Manchester [13]
3:55.202 17 August 2008 Olympic Games Laoshan (Beijing) [14]
3:53.314 18 August 2008 [15]
3:53.295 4 April 2012 World Championships Hisense Arena (Melbourne) [16]
3:52.499 2 August 2012 Olympic Games Lee Valley (London) [17]
3:51.659 3 August 2012 [18]
3:50.570 12 August 2016 Olympic Games Rio Olympic [19]
3:50.265 [20]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Athlete Biography – CLANCY Ed". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008.
  2. ^ "2020 men's domestic team guide". TheBritishContinental.co.uk. The British Continental. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Team Halfords bikehut website". Team Halfords bikehut:Cycle Race Team. 13 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  4. ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 15.
  5. ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N11.
  6. ^ "GB pursuit team set world record". BBC Sport. 17 August 2008.
  7. ^ "GB storm to gold in team pursuit". BBC Sport. 18 August 2008.
  8. ^ "GB pursuit team win gold in new world record". BBC Sport. 4 April 2012.
  9. ^ "Ed Clancy signs for Vitus Pro Cycling Team". cyclingnews.com. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  10. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: GB track cyclist Ed Clancy announces retirement and pulls out of remaining events". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  11. ^ "VN news ticker: Annette Edmondson announces retirement, Alpecin-Fenix signs Jakub Mareczko". VeloNews. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Ed Clancy: Olympic champion named new travel commissioner". BBC News. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  13. ^ "2008 World Championships Final Results" (PDF). TissotTiming.com. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  14. ^ "GB pursuit team set world record". BBC Sport. BBC. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  15. ^ "Foursome put the 'great' in Great Britain". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  16. ^ "Track Worlds: Great Britain beat Australia with world record". BBC Sport. BBC. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  17. ^ Gallagher, Brendan (2 August 2012). "London 2012 Olympics: GB pursuit quartet demolish world record in heats". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  18. ^ Bevan, Chris (3 August 2012). "Olympics cycling: Team GB defend men's pursuit title". BBC Sport. BBC. Archived from the original on 9 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  19. ^ "Men's Team Pursuit First Round Results" (PDF). Rio2016.com. International Olympic Committee. 12 August 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  20. ^ "Men's Team Pursuit Final Results" (PDF). Rio2016.com. International Olympic Committee. 12 August 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.

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