English racing cyclist (born 1985)For other people named Edward Clancy, see Edward Clancy (disambiguation).

Edward Franklin Clancy OBE (born 12 March 1985) is a British former professional track and road bicycle racer, who competed between 2004 and 2021.

During his career, Clancy won four medals (three gold, one bronze) at the Summer Olympic Games, 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. 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, and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Career achievements
  • 3.1 Major results
    • 3.1.1 Track
    • 3.1.2 Road
  • 3.2 World records
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

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 Vitus Pro Cycling Team p/b Brother UK for the 2019 season, after the JLT–Condor 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, Clancy announced his retirement. His final compe*ion was the 2021 UCI Track Champions League, 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

2004National Track Championships2nd Madison (with Mark Cavendish)2nd Team pursuit20051st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Sydney2nd Individual pursuit2nd Team pursuit20061st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships1st Team pursuit, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Moscow1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships3rd Team pursuit, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Sydney20071st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships1st Team pursuit, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, ManchesterTeam pursuit, 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics1st Sydney1st BeijingNational Track Championships2nd Individual pursuit2nd Kilo20081st Team pursuit, Olympic Games1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships1st Team pursuit, 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Copenhagen2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Manchester1st Individual pursuit1st Team pursuit20091st Team pursuit, 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, CopenhagenTeam pursuit, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics1st Manchester2nd Melbourne2nd Kilo, National Track Championships2010UCI Track World Championships1st Omnium2nd Team pursuit1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics1st Omnium, Cali3rd Omnium, Melbourne3rd Team pursuit, Melbourne2011UEC European Track Championships1st Omnium1st Team pursuit1st Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Manchester3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships2012Olympic Games1st Team pursuit3rd Omnium1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships2nd Team pursuit, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London2nd Team sprint, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow20131st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships1st Team pursuit, 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, ManchesterNational Track Championships1st Individual pursuit1st Points race2nd Kilo2nd Scratch2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships2014UEC European Track Championships1st Team pursuit3rd Scratch2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games3rd Omnium, Fenioux Piste International20152nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships20161st Team pursuit, Olympic Games2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships20171st Team pursuit, 2017–18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Manchester20181st Team pursuit, UCI Track World ChampionshipsTeam pursuit, 2018–19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup2nd Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines3rd Milton20192nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships

Road

20054th Overall Tour de Berlin1st Stage 1200610th Overall Tour de Berlin20072nd National Criterium Championships20091st Eddy Soens Memorial Road Race1st Round 6 – Southport, Tour Series20101st National Criterium Championships20111st Round 2 – Aberystwyth, Tour Series1st Stage 5 Tour de Korea20121st Round 6 – Peterborough, Tour Series2013Tour Series1st Round 4 – Aberystwyth1st Round 5 – Torquay1st Round 9 – Woking2015Tour Series1st Round 3 – Aberystwyth1st Round 9 – Peterborough1st London Nocturne3rd Milk Race20181st London Nocturne1st Prologue Herald Sun Tour

World records

See also

• 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes

References

External links

• Ed Clancy at Cycling Archives
• Ed Clancy at ProCyclingStats
• Ed Clancy at Cycling Quotient
• Ed Clancy at CycleBase
• Ed Clancy at Olympics.com
• Ed Clancy at Olympedia
• Ed Clancy at the British Olympic *ociation
• Ed Clancy at the Commonwealth Games Federation
• Ed Clancy at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
• "Rapha Condor JLT Rider Profile". Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
• Motorpoint Pro-Cycling 2010
• "Ed Clancy Bio on Britishcycling.com". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
• Ed Clancy Rider Profile:– Cycling Weekly
• Team halfords bikehut Ed Clancy's 09 team