# Katy Marchant

Katy Marchant (born 30 January 1993) is an elite British track cyclist who specialises in the sprint disciplines. She won gold as part of the Great Britain women's sprint team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and was a European champion in the 500 metre time trial in 2024.

## Career

Originally from Leeds, Marchant was based in Manchester after her switch to cycling in April 2013. She was educated at Brigshaw High School. Marchant began her sporting life as a heptathlete, and represented Great Britain in that event at the 2012 World Junior Championships. The switchover was instigated by her former coach, Toni Minichiello (best known for coaching Jessica Ennis), who suggested the move to cycling having seen the results of her power output on a Wattbike test. Marchant had cycled for leisure on a mountain bike and on the road, but had no experience of track cycling. After a 6-week trial period, she permanently switched to track cycling. She became a member of British Cycling's Olympic Academy in April 2013, and graduated to the Olympic Development Programme in November 2013.
In 2015, she won four national titles at the 2015 British National Track Championships, they were the 500m time trial, Sprint, Keirin and the Team Sprint.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won a bronze medal in the individual sprint.
At the 2018 British National Track Championships she won her second time trial and sprint titles to take her tally to six in total. Later that year she won a bronze medal in the Team sprint at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
Marchant was chosen to be part of the UK's 26-strong cycling squad for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she was the sprint specialist. She finished 5th in the overall standings.
Marchant won her seventh national title at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, she won the Team Sprint for the second time.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Marchant, alongside teammates Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane, won the gold medal in the women’s team sprint. The team broke the world record three times during the event, ultimately setting the new record at 45.186 seconds in the final.
At the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark, Marchant teamed with Finucane and Capewell to win gold in the team sprint. She additionally won bronze medals in the 500 m time trial and the keirin, with the time trial bronze being her first individual World Championships medal.
Marchant was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to cycling.

## Major results
### 2013

    British National Track Championships
       2nd Team sprint (with Victoria Williamson)
       2nd Keirin
       3rd Individual sprint

### 2014

    1st Sprint, Oberhausen
    British National Track Championships
       2nd Team sprint (with Victoria Williamson)
       2nd Individual sprint
       3rd Keirin race
       3rd 500m time trial
    3rd Sprint, Revolution – Round 3, Manchester
    3rd Team Sprint, GP von Deutschland im Sprint (with Jessica Varnish)
    European U23 Track Championships
       3rd Team Sprint (with Rosie Blount)
       3rd Keirin race

### 2015

    Revolution
       1st Keirin - Round 1, Derby
       1st Sprint - Round 1, Derby
       1st 500m Time Trial - Round 1, Derby
       2nd Sprint – Round 3, Manchester
       3rd Keirin – Round 3, Manchester
    Trofeu CAR Anadia Portugal
       1st Sprint
       1st Keirin
    Open des Nations sur Piste de Roubaix
       1st Sprint
       1st Keirin
    British National Track Championships
       1st Individual sprint
       1st Keirin
       1st Team Sprint (with Jessica Varnish)
       1st 500m time trial
    UEC European U23 Championships
       1st Keirin
       2nd Team Sprint (with Victoria Williamson)
    Internationale Radsport Meeting
       2nd Sprint
       3rd 500m Time Trial

### 2016

    Olympic Games
       3rd Sprint
    2nd Keirin, Fenioux Piste International

### 2017

    Siberne Eule von Ludwigshafen
       1st Keirin
       2nd Sprint
    2nd Sprint Internationaal Baan Sprint Keirin Toernooi
    2nd Sprint, Öschelbronn

### 2018

    British National Track Championships
       1st Sprint
       1st 500m Time trial

### 2023

    European Championships
       2nd Team sprint (with Emma Finucane, Lauren Bell and Sophie Capewell)
    British National Track Championships
       1st Team sprint (with Emma Finucane and Milly Tanner)
       2nd Keirin

### 2024

    Olympic Games
       1st Team sprint (with Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell)
    UCI World Championships
       1st Team sprint (with Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell)
       3rd 500 m time trial
       3rd Keirin
    European Championships
       1st 500m time trial
       2nd Team sprint (with Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Lowri Thomas)