National Titles Sprint Champion 2002 British Andy Slater (born 1974) is an English male former

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

Cycling career

Slater was a British track champion after winning the

British National Individual Sprint Championships The British National Individual Sprint Championships are held annually as part of the British National Track Championships organised by British Cycling. The men's championship was inaugurated in 1930 and won by Sydney Cozens. Men's Senior Rac ...

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. He won a

silver medal A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, ...

as part of the England

team sprint The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. The riders use a ...

with

Jamie Staff Jamie Alan Staff MBE (born 30 April 1973) is an English racing cyclist and coach, formerly on BMX and later on the track. A World and Olympic champion, he has also won numerous other medals at World Championships, World Cups and at the Com ...

and

Jason Queally Jason Paul Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Early years Born at Great Haywood, Staffordshire, Queally spent his childhood in Caton, a village near Lancaster. He a ...

at the

2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002, were an international multi-sport event for the members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Manchester, England, ...

. World Cup Winner Team Sprint 2002 Dunc Gray Velodrome Sydney Australia

Family

Married with 3 children. Kian Slater Madelaine Slater Katy Slater

References

1974 births British male cyclists English track cyclists British track cyclists Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Living people Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games 21st-century English sportsmen Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Yeovil Commonwealth Games silver medallists in cycling {{England-cycling-bio-stub