Ed Clancy

Ed Clancy
OBE

Clancy in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Edward Franklin Clancy
Born	(1985-03-12) 12 March 1985 (age 37)[1] Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy
Role	Rider
Rider type	Endurance
Amateur teams
2005–2006	Sparkasse
2006	Landbouwkrediet–Colnago (stagiaire)
2020–	Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy
Professional teams
2007–2008	Landbouwkrediet–Tönissteiner
2009	Team Halfords[2]
2010	Motorpoint–Marshalls Pasta
2011–2018	Rapha Condor–Sharp
2019	Vitus Pro Cycling Team p/b Brother UK
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team pursuit 2012 London Team pursuit 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit 2012 London Omnium World Championships 2005 Los Angeles 2007 Palma de Mallorca Team pursuit 2008 Manchester Team pursuit 2010 Ballerup Omnium 2012 Melbourne Team pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2010 Ballerup Team pursuit 2013 Minsk Team pursuit 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit 2016 London Team pursuit 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit European Championships 2010 Pruszków Team pursuit 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Team pursuit

Edward Franklin Clancy OBE (born 12 March 1985) is a British former professional track and road bicycle racer from England, who last rode for British amateur team Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy team.^[3] On the track his specialist discipline is the team pursuit, in which he won three consecutive Olympic titles (in 2008, 2012 and 2016).

In the London 2012 Olympics, he also participated in the Omnium, claiming a bronze medal. In total, Clancy is a five-time world champion (in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2018) and four-time European champion (in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014) in the team pursuit; he has also won World (2010) and European (2011) titles in the 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] and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling.^[7]

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.^[8]

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 Vitus Pro Cycling Team p/b Brother UK for the 2019 season, after the JLT–Condor team which he had been part of for eight years confirmed that it would be disbanding at the end of the year.^[9]

In August 2021, during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Clancy announced his retirement.^[10] His final competition was the 2021 UCI Track Champions League, which concluded in December of that year with a double header on home ground in London.^[11]

Personal life[]

He lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.^{[citation needed]}

Career achievements[]

Major results[]

World records[]

See also[]

• 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ed Clancy.

• Ed Clancy at ProCyclingStats
• Ed Clancy at Cycling Archives
• Ed Clancy at the International Olympic Committee
• Ed Clancy at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• "Rapha Condor JLT Rider Profile". Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
• Motorpoint Pro-Cycling 2010
• "Ed Clancy Bio on Britishcycling.com". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
• Ed Clancy Rider Profile – Cycling Weekly
• Team halfords bikehut Ed Clancy's 09 team
• Ed Clancy's Current Team