Ed Clancy
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
- 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
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Manchester
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 2012
- Olympic Games
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 3rd
Omnium
- 1st
- 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
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
- 2nd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 2014
- UEC European Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 3rd
Scratch
- 1st
- 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
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]- ^ a b c "Athlete Biography – CLANCY Ed". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008.
- ^ "2020 men's domestic team guide". TheBritishContinental.co.uk. The British Continental. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 15.
- ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N11.
- ^ "GB pursuit team set world record". BBC Sport. 17 August 2008.
- ^ "GB storm to gold in team pursuit". BBC Sport. 18 August 2008.
- ^ "GB pursuit team win gold in new world record". BBC Sport. 4 April 2012.
- ^ "Ed Clancy signs for Vitus Pro Cycling Team". cyclingnews.com. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: GB track cyclist Ed Clancy announces retirement and pulls out of remaining events". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "VN news ticker: Annette Edmondson announces retirement, Alpecin-Fenix signs Jakub Mareczko". VeloNews. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- ^ "Ed Clancy: Olympic champion named new travel commissioner". BBC News. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ^ "2008 World Championships Final Results" (PDF). TissotTiming.com. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ "GB pursuit team set world record". BBC Sport. BBC. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ^ "Foursome put the 'great' in Great Britain". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- ^ "Track Worlds: Great Britain beat Australia with world record". BBC Sport. BBC. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ Gallagher, Brendan (2 August 2012). "London 2012 Olympics: GB pursuit quartet demolish world record in heats". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
External links
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- Ed Clancy at Cycling Archives
- Ed Clancy at ProCyclingStats
- Ed Clancy at Cycling Quotient
- Ed Clancy at CycleBase
- Ed Clancy at Olympics.com
- "Rapha Condor JLT Rider Profile". Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
- Motorpoint Pro-Cycling 2010
- "Ed Clancy Bio on Britishcycling.com". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
- Ed Clancy Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine Rider Profile – Cycling Weekly
- Team halfords bikehut Ed Clancy's 09 team