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GB's Daniell Helps Launch Manchester Schools Track Championships

Fifteen Manchester secondary schools and academies started a schools' competition at the National Cycling Centre in East Manchester this week.

The competition will give over 300 young people from across Manchester the chance to develop their skills and ride on the same boards as Olympic Champions including Sir Chris Hoy.

Youngsters from across Manchester will compete against each other in a ‘Virtual Reality' competition which will finish in a grand finale at the track in summer in which schools and riders will go head to head.

image: Mark Waugh

David Daniell (pictured above) from the Great Britain cycling team met with young people from East Manchester Academy to launch the competition. David told the pupils how he was ‘spotted' at school whilst cycling in the playground on British Cycling's Go-Ride programme. David's many achievements include a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010 and a gold at the Manchester Track World Cup; showing that for Manchester's new young riders anything is possible.

The schools competing in the championships will be:

Abraham Moss High School
Burnage Media Arts College
Chorlton High School
East Manchester Academy
King David School
Levenshulme Girls School
Loreto High School
Manchester Academy
Manchester Communication Academy
Manchester Creative & Media Academy Girls
Manchester Enterprise Academy
Manchester Health Academy
Our Lady's RC High School
Trinity C of E High School
Whalley Range School