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Wikipedia / Ed Clancy

Edward Franklin Clancy (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, and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling.

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. 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.

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.

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 for the 2019 season, after the team which he had been part of for eight years confirmed that it would be disbanding at the end of the year.

In August 2021, during the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, Clancy announced his retirement. 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.

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.

Personal life

He lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.

Career achievements

Major results

Road

  1. 2005

  2. 4th Overall Tour de Berlin

    1. 1st Stage 1

    2006

  3. 10th Overall Tour de Berlin

  4. 2007

  5. 2nd National Criterium Championships

  6. 2009

  7. 1st Eddy Soens Memorial Road Race

  8. 1st Southport, Tour Series

  9. 2010

  10. 1st National Criterium Championships

  11. 2011

  12. 1st Aberystwyth, Tour Series

  13. 1st Stage 5 Tour de Korea

  14. 2012

  15. 1st Peterborough, Tour Series

  16. 2013

  17. Tour Series

    1. 1st Aberystwyth

    2. 1st Torquay

    3. 1st Woking

    2015

  18. Tour Series

    1. 1st Aberystwyth

    2. 1st Peterborough

    1st London Nocturne

  19. 3rd Milk Race

  20. 2018

  21. 1st London Nocturne

  22. 1st Prologue Herald Sun Tour

Track

  1. 2004

  2. National Championships

    1. 2nd Madison (with Mark Cavendish)

    2. 2nd Team pursuit

    2005

  3. 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  4. 1st Team pursuit, National Championships

  5. UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney

    1. 2nd Individual pursuit

    2. 2nd Team pursuit

    2006

  6. 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships

  7. 1st Team pursuit, National Championships

  8. UCI World Cup Classics

    1. 1st Team pursuit, Moscow

    2. 3rd Team pursuit, Sydney

    2007

  9. 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  10. UCI World Cup Classics

    1. 1st Team pursuit, Manchester

    2. 1st Team pursuit, Sydney

    3. 1st Team pursuit, Beijing

    National Championships

    1. 2nd Individual pursuit

    2. 2nd Kilo

    2008

  11. 1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games

  12. 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  13. UCI World Cup Classics

    1. 1st Team pursuit, Copenhagen

    2. 1st Individual pursuit, Manchester

    3. 1st Team pursuit, Manchester

    2009

  14. UCI World Cup Classics

    1. 1st Team pursuit, Copenhagen

    2. 1st Team pursuit, Manchester

    3. 2nd Team pursuit, Melbourne

    2nd Kilo, National Championships

  15. 2010

  16. UCI World Championships

    1. 1st Omnium

    2. 2nd Team pursuit

    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

  17. UCI World Cup Classics

    1. 1st Omnium, Cali

    2. 3rd Omnium, Melbourne

    3. 3rd Team pursuit, Melbourne

    2011

  18. UEC European Championships

    1. 1st Omnium

    2. 1st Team pursuit

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Manchester

  19. 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  20. 2012

  21. Olympic Games

    1. 1st Team pursuit

    2. 3rd Omnium

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  22. UCI World Cup

    1. 2nd Team pursuit, London

    2. 2nd Team sprint, Glasgow

    2013

  23. 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

  24. National Championships

    1. 1st Individual pursuit

    2. 1st Points race

    3. 2nd Kilo

    4. 2nd Scratch

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester

  25. 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  26. 2014

  27. UEC European Championships

    1. 1st Team pursuit

    2. 3rd Scratch

    2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games

  28. 2015

  29. 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  30. 2016

  31. 1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games

  32. 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  33. 2017

  34. 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester

  35. 2018

  36. 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  37. UCI World Cup

    1. 2nd Team pursuit, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

    2. 3rd Team pursuit, Milton

    2019

  38. 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

  39. 3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

World records

See also

References