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Manon Lloyd (born 5 November 1996) is a Welsh presenter and former road and
Team pursuit
::1st Points race
;2016
: 
Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
: 3rd Madison (with Ellie Dickinson)
::3rd Points race
: 1st 
Team pursuit, National Track Championships
: Track Cycling Challenge
::1st Madison (with Emily Kay)
::2nd Scratch race
: 2nd 
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 ...
. She rode professionally for UCI Women's Team
A UCI Women's Team is a women's road bicycle team sanctioned by the International Cycling Union ( UCI). These teams compete in the major women's bicycle races including the UCI Women's World Tour. The country designation of each team is determine ...
in 2018 and 2019. Representing Great Britain at international competitions, she won the bronze medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships
The 2016 UEC European Track Championships was the seventh edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Velodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, between 19 and 23 ...
in the team pursuit. She finished third in the individual competition at the 2017 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix.
In 2019, Lloyd joined the Global Cycling Network
Global Cycling Network (GCN) is a cycling-related YouTube channel which was launched in the United Kingdom in 2013. The channel's parent company, Play Sports Network, became a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery through its TNT Sports unit in 20 ...
YouTube channel as a presenter, and departed GCN on July 30, 2024.
Biography
Lloyd is the elder of two children, raised on her family's sheep farm nearKidwelly
Kidwelly () is a town and community (Wales), community in Carmarthenshire, southwest Wales, approximately northwest of the most populous town in the county, Llanelli. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census the community had a population ...
. She attended Ysgol y Fro in the nearby village of Llangyndeyrn
Llangyndeyrn () is a village, community and electoral ward in the River Gwendraeth valley, Carmarthenshire, in Dyfed region of West Wales, United Kingdom. The village name is often spelt as Llangendeirne. In 2011 the community had a populati ...
. Having enjoyed swimming and running as a child, she wanted to try triathlon
A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of Swimming (sport), swimming, Cycle sport, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the ...
. She joined her local club, Towy Riders, taking up cycling around the age of 14, at Carmarthen Park velodrome.
Major results
;2014 : UEC European Junior Track Championships ::1st Team pursuit
::1st Points race
;2016
: UCI Track World Cup
The UCI Track Cycling World Cup (formerly known as the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics) was a multi race tournament held over a track cycling season - usually between October and February. Each series is divided into several rounds, each held ...
::1st Madison (Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...
)
::1st Team pursuit (Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...
)
: 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
: 3rd Team pursuit
The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome.
Race format
Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
, UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...
;2017
: UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
::1st Madison (with Ellie Dickinson)
::3rd Points race
: 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
: Track Cycling Challenge
::1st Madison (with Emily Kay)
::2nd Scratch race
: 2nd Team pursuit
The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome.
Race format
Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
, UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...
:3rd Team pursuit, Round 1 (Pruszków
Pruszków is a city in east-central Poland, capital of Pruszków County in the Masovian Voivodeship. Pruszków is located along the western edge of the Warsaw metropolitan area.
Pruszków is the largest city in the Warsaw metropolitan area outs ...
), Track Cycling World Cup (with Neah Evans, Emily Kay and Emily Nelson
Emily Nelson (born 10 November 1996) is a former English professional racing cyclist. Her sister, Josie, is also a cyclist and joined Trinity Racing for the 2021 season.
Career
On 8 August 2013, at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, Nelso ...
)
References
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