Ed Clancy
Edward Franklin Clancy OBE (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 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.
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.[citation needed]
Career achievements
Major results
Track
- 2004
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Madison (with Mark Cavendish)
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2005
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 2006
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 1st Team pursuit, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Moscow
- 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
- 3rd Team pursuit, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 2007
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Team pursuit, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
- Team pursuit, 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 2nd Kilo
- 2008
- 1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Team pursuit, 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen
- 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
- 2009
- 1st Team pursuit, 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen
- Team pursuit, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 2nd Kilo, National Track Championships
- 2010
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
- 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 2011
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
- 3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2012
- Olympic Games
- 1st Team pursuit
- 3rd Omnium
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2nd Team pursuit, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London
- 2nd Team sprint, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow
- 2013
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Team pursuit, 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Manchester
- National Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 2nd Kilo
- 2nd Scratch
- 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2014
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 3rd Scratch
- 2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
- 3rd Omnium, Fenioux Piste International
- 2015
- 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2016
- 1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
- 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2017
- 1st Team pursuit, 2017–18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Manchester
- 2018
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- Team pursuit, 2018–19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
Road
- 2005
- 4th Overall Tour de Berlin
- 1st Stage 1
- 2006
- 10th Overall Tour de Berlin
- 2007
- 2nd National Criterium Championships
- 2009
- 1st Eddy Soens Memorial Road Race
- 1st Round 6 – Southport, Tour Series
- 2010
- 1st National Criterium Championships
- 2011
- 1st Round 2 – Aberystwyth, Tour Series
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Korea
- 2012
- 1st Round 6 – Peterborough, Tour Series
- 2013
- Tour Series
- 1st Round 4 – Aberystwyth
- 1st Round 5 – Torquay
- 1st Round 9 – Woking
- 2015
- Tour Series
- 1st Round 3 – Aberystwyth
- 1st Round 9 – Peterborough
- 1st London Nocturne
- 3rd Milk Race
- 2018
- 1st London Nocturne
- 1st Prologue Herald Sun Tour
World records
Discipline | Record | Date | Event | Velodrome | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Team pursuit | 3:56.322 | 27 March 2008 | World Championships | Manchester | |
3:55.202 | 17 August 2008 | Olympic Games | Laoshan (Beijing) | ||
3:53.314 | 18 August 2008 | ||||
3:53.295 | 4 April 2012 | World Championships | Hisense Arena (Melbourne) | ||
3:52.499 | 2 August 2012 | Olympic Games | Lee Valley (London) | ||
3:51.659 | 3 August 2012 | ||||
3:50.570 | 12 August 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio Olympic | ||
3:50.265 |
See also
- 1985 births
- Living people
- British male cyclists
- English male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Barnsley
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- English Olympic medallists
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from Yorkshire
- Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- English track cyclists
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games