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Peter Mitchell (born 12 January 1990 in London, England) is an English
2024 British Cycling National Track Championships
;2025
:2nd Sprint, 2025 British Cycling National Track Championships
: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 ...
, specialising in the individual and team sprints. In 2009, he was named in the Team Sky+ HD track cycling team alongside names such as 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 Victoria Pendelton.
In November 2012 it was announced that Mitchell was joining the British paralympic
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...
cycling squad as a pilot for the tandem events. Mitchell teamed up with Paralympic gold medallist and multiple world champion Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
for the 2013 British National Track Championships, where they were second in both the kilo time trial and the 200-metre flying start time trial for mixed blind/visually impaired competitors. In addition he scored a solo second place in the sprint, being defeated in the final by Jason Kenny
Sir Jason Francis Kenny (born 23 March 1988) is a British former track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. Kenny is the winner of most Olympic gold medals (7) and medals (9) by a British athlete. Kenny's seven Olympic ...
.
Fachie and Mitchell continued their partnership for the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by ...
in Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes, is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and with an average altitude of above sea level it is pre ...
, Mexico. The pair won the gold medal in the tandem 1km time trial, and broke the world record set by Fachie and Barney Storey at the 2012 Paralympics by setting a time of 59.460 seconds, becoming the first tandem pairing to clock a sub-minute time for the kilo time trial. They subsequently won a second gold in the tandem sprint.
He returned to track cycling and at the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships and won the national sprint title.
Results
;2007 :1st Team Sprint, Junior World Track Championships :3rd Sprint, Junior World Track Championships :2nd Sprint, British National Junior Track Championships ;2008 :2nd Team Sprint, European Junior Track Championships :3rd Sprint, European Junior Track Championships ;2009 :2nd Team Sprint, European Under 23 Track Championships :2nd Team Sprint,British National Track Championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
;2010
:3rd Sprint, European Under 23 Track Championships
;2011
:2nd Team Sprint, European Under 23 Track Championships
;2013
:2nd Sprint, British National track championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
:2nd BVI Mixed 1km time trial, British National track championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
:2nd BVI Mixed 200m flying start time trial, British National track championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
;2014
:1st BVI 1km time trial, UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
:1st BVI Sprint, UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
:2nd BVI Mixed 1km time trial, British National Track Championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
:2nd BVI 200m flying start time trial, British National Track Championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
;2015
:1st Tandem B sprint, UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
:2nd BVI 200m mixed standing start time trial, British National Track Championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
(with Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Games i ...
)
:2nd BVI 200m flying start time trial, British National Track Championships
The British National Track Championships are a Track cycling event held annually and organised by the national governing body for track cycling (and other forms of cycling) in Great Britain, British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federat ...
(with Helen Scott)
:2nd British National Team Sprint Championships
The British National Team Sprint Championships are held annually as part of the British National Track Championships organized by British Cycling. A women's championship was held for the first time in 2008.
Past winners Men
Women
See ...
(with Matthew Roper and Thomas Scammell)
;2024
:1st Sprint 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships
;2025
:2nd Sprint, 2025 British Cycling National Track Championships
:2nd 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 ...
, 2025 British Cycling National Track Championships
References
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Peter English male cyclists British male cyclists Cyclists from London Living people 1990 births People educated at Steyning Grammar School English track cyclists British track cyclists Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales Commonwealth Games cyclists for Wales Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games 21st-century English sportsmen Commonwealth Games silver medallists in cycling