Ed Clancy

Ed Clancy

Clancy at Our Greatest Team Parade in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Edward Clancy
Nickname	Ed Clancy
Born	(1985-03-12) 12 March 1985 Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight	78 kg (172 lb; 12.3 st)[1]
Team information
Current team	JLT-Condor
Discipline	Road & Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Endurance
Amateur team(s)
2005–2006	Sparkasse
2006	Landbouwkrediet-Colnago (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2007–2008	Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner
2009	Team Halfords Bikehut
2010	Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta
2011–	Rapha Condor-Sharp
Medal record Competitor for  Great Britain Track cycling Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing Team pursuit Gold 2012 London Team pursuit Bronze 2012 London Omnium World Championships Gold 2005 Los Angeles Team Pursuit Gold 2007 Palma de Mallorca Team Pursuit Gold 2008 Manchester Team Pursuit Gold 2010 Ballerup Omnium Gold 2012 Melbourne Team Pursuit Silver 2010 Ballerup Team Pursuit Silver 2013 Minsk Team Pursuit Silver 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit Bronze 2011 Apeldoorn Team Pursuit European Elite Championships Gold 2010 Pruszków Team pursuit Gold 2011 Apeldoorn Team Pursuit Gold 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium Gold 2013 Apeldoorn Team Pursuit Gold 2014 Guadeloupe Team Pursuit Bronze 2014 Guadeloupe Scratch race Competitor for  England Commonwealth Games Silver 2014 Glasgow Team pursuit

Edward "Ed" Clancy MBE (born Edward Clancy, 12 March 1985) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer who rides for the JLT-Condor team.^[2][3] On the track his specialist discipline is the team pursuit, in which he is the reigning Olympic and European champion.

In the London 2012 Olympics, he also participated in the Omnium, claiming a bronze medal. In total, Clancy is a four-time world champion (in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2012) and triple European champion (in 2010, 2011 and 2014) in team pursuit; he has also won World (2010) and European (2011) titles at Omnium. On the road, he won the first stage of the 2005 Tour of Berlin.

Career

Clancy has featured in a number of world record team pursuits. 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.^[4] 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.^[5] Clancy was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.^[6]

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.^[7]

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.

Personal life

He lives in Newton-le-Willows. He is a lifelong supporter of his local football team – Huddersfield Town.

Major results

World records

4000m team pursuit 3:53.314 Team GB, 18 August 2008, Beijing

4000m team pursuit 3:53.295 Team GB, 4 April 2012, Melbourne

4000m team pursuit 3:52.499 Team GB, 2 August 2012, London

4000m team pursuit 3:51.659 Team GB, 3 August 2012, London

See also

• 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ed Clancy.

• Rapha Condor JLT Rider Profile
• Motorpoint Pro-Cycling 2010
• Ed Clancy Bio on Britishcycling.com
• Ed Clancy Rider Profile – Cycling Weekly
• Team halfords bikehut Ed Clancy's 09 team