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Edward Franklin Clancy (born 12 March 1985) is a British former professional
track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across * Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shorte ...
and
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, who competed between 2004 and 2021. During his career, Clancy won four medals (three gold, one bronze) at the
Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
, 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 The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...
. 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 The New Year Honours 2009 were announced on 31 December 2008 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Christopher and Nevis,Saint Christopher. to ...
, and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2017 New Year Honours The 2017 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours were awarded as part of the New Year celebrati ...
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 for the 2019 season, after the 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 The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
, Clancy announced his retirement. His final competition was the
2021 UCI Track Champions League The 2021 UCI Track Champions League was the first edition of the UCI Track Champions League, a track cycling competition held over four rounds in November and December 2021. It was established in March 2020 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (U ...
, which concluded in December of that year with a double header at the Lee Valley VeloPark.


Personal life

He lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.


Career achievements


Major results


Track

;2004 :
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::2nd Madison (with Mark Cavendish) ::2nd Team pursuit ;2005 : 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships : 1st Team pursuit,
National Track Championships National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...
:
2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2004–2005 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycl ...
, Sydney ::2nd Individual pursuit ::2nd Team pursuit ;2006 : 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships : 1st Team pursuit,
2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bic ...
, Moscow : 1st Team pursuit,
National Track Championships National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...
: 3rd Team pursuit,
2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycl ...
, Sydney ;2007 : 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships : 1st Team pursuit,
2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bic ...
, Manchester : Team pursuit,
2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2007–2008 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season began on 30 November 2007 and ended on 17 February 2008. The World Cup is organised by the UCI. The 2007–2008 ...
::1st Sydney ::1st Beijing :
National Track Championships National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...
::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 The 2007–2008 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season began on 30 November 2007 and ended on 17 February 2008. The World Cup is organised by the UCI. The 2007–2008 ...
, Copenhagen :
2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2008–2009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 31 October 2008 to 18 February 2009. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The World C ...
, Manchester ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Team pursuit ;2009 : 1st Team pursuit,
2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2008–2009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 31 October 2008 to 18 February 2009. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The World C ...
, Copenhagen : Team pursuit,
2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 30 October 2009 to 24 January 2010. The World Cup was organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The World Cup k ...
::1st Manchester ::2nd Melbourne : 2nd Kilo,
National Track Championships National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...
;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 The 2010–2011 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 2 December 2010 to 20 February 2011. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. As in the pr ...
::1st Omnium, Cali ::3rd Omnium, Melbourne ::3rd Team pursuit, Melbourne ;2011 : UEC European Track Championships ::1st Omnium ::1st Team pursuit : 1st Team pursuit,
2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2010–2011 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 2 December 2010 to 20 February 2011. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. As in the pr ...
, 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 The 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the 2011–2012 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, presented by Samsung for sponsorship reasons) was a multi-race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 4 November 2011 to ...
, 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 National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...
::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 The 2018–19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a multi-race tournament over a track cycling season. It was the 27th series of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup organised ...
::2nd Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ::3rd Milton ;2019 : 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships : 3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships


Road

;2005 : 4th Overall
Tour de Berlin The Tour de Berlin was a road bicycle race held annually between 1953 and 2016 in Germany. From 2007 to its demise, the race was organised as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour, meaning it was reserved for under-23 riders. Winners Reference ...
::1st Stage 1 ;2006 : 10th Overall
Tour de Berlin The Tour de Berlin was a road bicycle race held annually between 1953 and 2016 in Germany. From 2007 to its demise, the race was organised as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour, meaning it was reserved for under-23 riders. Winners Reference ...
;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 The London Nocturne (formerly the Smithfield Nocturne) was a cycling race in London, United Kingdom, organised as a criterium around a long course in the City of London. It was first run in 2007 for men and in 2009 for women, and took place as ...
: 3rd Milk Race ;2018 : 1st
London Nocturne The London Nocturne (formerly the Smithfield Nocturne) was a cycling race in London, United Kingdom, organised as a criterium around a long course in the City of London. It was first run in 2007 for men and in 2009 for women, and took place as ...
: 1st Prologue Herald Sun Tour


World records


See also

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References


External links

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Motorpoint Pro-Cycling 2010
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''Rider Profile – Cycling Weekly''
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