Name: Ed Clancy MBE
D.O.B.: 12/03/1985
Hometown: Huddersfield
Disciplines: Track Endurance and Road
Major Results:
2008
Olympics, Beijing
Gold, Team Pursuit
World Track Championships, Manchester
Gold, Team Pursuit
2007
World Track Championships, Majorca
Gold, Team Pursuit
2005
World Track Championships, Los Angeles
Gold, Team Pursuit
About Ed:
Ed Clancy specialises in the Team Pursuit on the track and on the 17th August 2008, he was a member of the Team Pursuit squad who broke the World Record twice on their way to a Gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, seeing off their Danish competitors in the final by 6.7 seconds.
Ed has often acted as ‘Man One’ for the Team Pursuit: his speed off the line making him the ideal early pace setter for the quartet of riders as they build up to race pace over the first one and a half laps. Ed was also part of the team which won the world title in 2008 and he ended the year by collecting an MBE.
Ed is also a talented Road rider and in 2009, in his first domestic race of the season, the Eddie Soens Memorial, he used his considerable sprinting ability to claim an excellent win.
GB Team images on Flickr