# Paul Manning (cyclist)

Paul Christian Manning, MBE (born 6 November 1974, Sutton Coldfield) is a former English professional track and road bicycle racer who rode for the UCI Professional Continental 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 Member of the Order of the British Empire (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 2012 London Olympics. Manning won the ‘High Performance Coach of the Year Award’ at the 2012 UK Coaching Awards.
He studied Earth Sciences at the University of Birmingham 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

    Tour of Britain stage 6