Matthew "Matt" Nicholas Crampton (born 23 May 1986) is an English former track cyclist for . He was a member of

British Cycling British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation) is the main national sport governing body, governing body for cycle sport in United Kingdom, Great Britain. It administers most competitive cycling in Great Britain, the Channel Islands a ...

's Olympic Podium Programme, and represented Great Britain at a number of major events. Crampton specialised in track sprinting and competed in the individual sprint, team sprint, keirin and kilo events.

Biography

Born in

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

, Crampton won the junior sprint and keirin events at the 2004

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) ...

. Crampton competed at the Youth Commonwealth Games in

Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is an Australian city in north-central Victoria. The city is located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2022, Bendigo has a popula ...

, Australia in 2004, winning a silver medal in the keirin. He went on to take the silver medal as a member of England's Team Sprint squad at the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an International sport, international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Melbourne ...

. 2007 saw Crampton take the silver medal in the keirin and bronze in the team sprint at the European Track Championships, this time riding in the under 23 category. He won a bronze medal in the individual sprint at the first round of the 2008–2009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics at Manchester on 1 November 2008. He also won the Japanese Keirin Association Race the next day. On 15 November 2008 he competed in the

Revolution In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements ...

21 event in Manchester. He won both events he was entered in, the Sprint and the Keirin. Other riders present were Jason Kenny,

Ross Edgar Ross Edgar (born 3 January 1983) is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Scotland at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Scotland at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal in the team sprint riding ...

and Jamie Staff. He won silver in the men's team sprint at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships with teammates Jamie Staff and Jason Kenny. He also won silver in the same event two years later with

Chris Hoy Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former Track cycling, track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympics, Great Britain at the Olympic Games, Olympic and World Championships and Scot ...

and Jason Kenny, after the French squad were stripped of the world title and the British team were promoted from their original bronze medals. At the 2011 UEC European Track Championships, Crampton won the gold medal in the

keirin – "racing track" – is a form of Motor-paced racing, motor-paced cycle racing in which track cycling, track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan ...

. He won gold in keirin and placed second at team sprint in Aguascalientes at 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup. In November 2016 Crampton announced his retirement from competition, indicating that he would continue to be involved in the sport as a coach. In 2018 he was appointed Head Coach of the WAIS Cycling Program.

Family

He is the older brother of Jessica Crampton.

References

External links

Interview by Larry Hickmott, British Cycling, Melbourne, 13 March 2006
1986 births Living people English male cyclists British male cyclists Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Cyclists from Manchester Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games English cycling coaches Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 21st-century English sportsmen Commonwealth Games silver medallists in cycling {{England-cycling-bio-stub