Paul Christian Manning, (born 6 November 1974,

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) is a former English professional track and

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who rode for the

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team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner in 2007 and 2008. He is strong in the Individual and Team Pursuit disciplines on track and has won many medals for Britain in the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Track World Championships and Track World Cups. He was the British national individual pursuit champion in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005. He was also the national points race champion in 2005. On 17 August 2008, Manning was a member of the Olympic team pursuit squad which broke the world record in the heats with a time of 3:55:202, beating their Russian opponents comfortably to go through to the final ride-off for silver and gold. The following day, on their way to winning the gold medal, the British Team pursuit broke their own world record in a time of 3:53:314, beating their Danish competitors by 6.7 seconds. After the Olympics he announced his retirement from professional cycling. Manning was appointed

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(MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2009, he was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame. After his retirement Manning joined the GB Cycling Team coaching staff as women's endurance coach; since then the women's endurance team has broken the Team Pursuit world record six times, once in winning the gold medal at the

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. Manning won the ‘High Performance Coach of the Year Award’ at the 2012 UK Coaching Awards. He studied Earth Sciences at the

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and graduated in 1996. Manning coaches the New Zealand female pursuit team, going to the 2024 Olympics with the team.

Palmares

Olympics

;2000 Sydney : 3rd, Team Pursuit (bronze medal) ;2004 Athens : 2nd, Team Pursuit (silver medal) ;2008 Beijing : 1st, Team Pursuit (gold medal)

World Championships

;2000 Manchester : 2nd, Team Pursuit ;2001 Belgium : 2nd, Team Pursuit ;2003 Stuttgart : 2nd, Team Pursuit : 4th, Individual Pursuit ;2004 Melbourne : 2nd, Team Pursuit ;2005 Los Angeles : 1st, Team Pursuit ;2006 Bordeaux : 2nd, Team Pursuit : 3rd, Individual Pursuit ;2007 Palma de Mallorca : 1st, Team Pursuit ;2008 Manchester : 1st, Team Pursuit

Commonwealth Games

;2002 Manchester : 2nd, Team Pursuit : 3rd, Individual Pursuit ;2006 Melbourne : 1st, Individual Pursuit : 1st, Team Pursuit : 9th, Men's Road Time Trial

UCI Track World Cup

;2002 Mexico : 1st, Individual Pursuit ;2003 South Africa : 2nd, Team Pursuit ;2003 Mexico : 2nd, Team Pursuit : 3rd, Individual Pursuit ;2004 Sydney : 1st, Individual Pursuit : 1st, Team Pursuit ;2004 Manchester : 3rd, Individual Pursuit : 1st, Team Pursuit ;2005/6 Manchester : 1st, Team Pursuit : 1st, Individual Pursuit ;2006 Moscow : 1st, Team Pursuit : 3rd, Individual Pursuit

British Championships

;2001 : 1st, Individual Pursuit ;2003 : 1st, Individual Pursuit ;2004 : 1st, Individual Pursuit : 1st, Team Pursuit ;2005 : 1st, Points Race : 1st, Individual Pursuit

Other results

;1996 : Duo Normand (with Chris Boardman) ;2001 : FBD Milk Ras ;2002 : FBD Milk Ras stage 6 ;2003 : Herald Sun Tour stage 8 ;2007 :

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stage 6

References

External links

Paul Manning Bio
on Britishcycling.com
Paul Manning interviewed by students
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