Ed Clancy
Ed Clancy was born in Barnsley, England, United Kingdom on March 12th, 1985 and is the Cyclist. At the age of 39, Ed Clancy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Edward Clancy (born 12 March 1985) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer who rides for the Vitus Pro Cycling Team.
His special interest is the team pursuit, in which he is the reigning Olympic and European champion. He also competed in the London 2012 Olympics, winning a bronze medal.
Clancy is a five-time world champion (in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, and 2018), as well as a four-time European champion (in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014) in the team pursuit; he also won World (2010) and European (2011) titles in the omnium.
On the road, he claimed the first stage of the 2005 Tour of Berlin.
Personal life
He lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
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 competition was the 2021 UCI Track Champions League, which concluded in December of that year with a double header at the Lee Valley VeloPark.