Name: Matthew Crampton
D.O.B.: 23/05/1986
Hometown: Manchester
Disciplines: Track Sprint
Major Results:
2009
World Track Championships, Poland
Silver, Team Sprint
2006
Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
Silver, Team Sprint
About Matt:
Specialising in the sprint events, Matt has represented GB in the Sprint, Team Sprint, Keirin and Kilo events at Junior, Under-23 and now Senior level.
Matt’s career took off back in 2004 where he won Gold in the European Junior Track Championships in the Sprint and Keirin. In the same year, he took Silver at the Youth Commonwealth Games in Australia.
He stepped up a level for 2006, and competed again in the Commonwealth Games – this time the senior version – taking Silver in the Team Sprint, alongside his established teammates Jamie Staff and Jason Queally.
His first international success on the world stage came in 2008, when Matt scooped the Gold medal – and the prize money – at the invitation-only JKA Keirin, seeing off stiff competition from around the globe
2009 saw Matt pick up his first senior world championship medal, winning a Silver in the Team Sprint with Jamie Staff and Ross Edgar, before jetting off to the International Keirin School in Japan to hone his medal-winning Keirin skills.
GB Team images on Flickr