# Ed Clancy

Edward Franklin Clancy (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.

## 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.
In February 2023 Clancy was announced as the new active travel commissioner for South Yorkshire, following Dame Sarah Storey and working for South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard.

## Personal life

He lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.

## Career achievements
### Major results
#### Road
##### 2005

    4th Overall Tour de Berlin
       1st Stage 1

##### 2006

    10th Overall Tour de Berlin

##### 2007

    2nd National Criterium Championships

##### 2009

    1st Eddy Soens Memorial Road Race
    1st Southport, Tour Series

##### 2010

    1st National Criterium Championships

##### 2011

    1st Aberystwyth, Tour Series
    1st Stage 5 Tour de Korea

##### 2012

    1st Peterborough, Tour Series

##### 2013

    Tour Series
       1st Aberystwyth
       1st Torquay
       1st Woking

##### 2015

    Tour Series
       1st Aberystwyth
       1st Peterborough
    1st London Nocturne
    3rd Milk Race

##### 2018

    1st London Nocturne
    1st Prologue Herald Sun Tour

#### Track
##### 2004

    National Championships
       2nd Madison (with Mark Cavendish)
       2nd Team pursuit

##### 2005

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    1st Team pursuit, National Championships
    UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
       2nd Individual pursuit
       2nd Team pursuit

##### 2006

    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    1st Team pursuit, National Championships
    UCI World Cup Classics
       1st Team pursuit, Moscow
       3rd Team pursuit, Sydney

##### 2007

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    UCI World Cup Classics
       1st Team pursuit, Manchester
       1st Team pursuit, Sydney
       1st Team pursuit, Beijing
    National Championships
       2nd Individual pursuit
       2nd Kilo

##### 2008

    1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    UCI World Cup Classics
       1st Team pursuit, Copenhagen
       1st Individual pursuit, Manchester
       1st Team pursuit, Manchester

##### 2009

    UCI World Cup Classics
       1st Team pursuit, Copenhagen
       1st Team pursuit, Manchester
       2nd Team pursuit, Melbourne
    2nd Kilo, National Championships

##### 2010

    UCI World Championships
       1st Omnium
       2nd Team pursuit
    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
    UCI World Cup Classics
       1st Omnium, Cali
       3rd Omnium, Melbourne
       3rd Team pursuit, Melbourne

##### 2011

    UEC European Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Team pursuit
    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Manchester
    3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

##### 2012

    Olympic Games
       1st Team pursuit
       3rd Omnium
    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    UCI World Cup
       2nd Team pursuit, London
       2nd Team sprint, Glasgow

##### 2013

    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
    National Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Points race
       2nd Kilo
       2nd Scratch
    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
    2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

##### 2014

    UEC European Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       3rd Scratch
    2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games

##### 2015

    2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

##### 2016

    1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
    2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

##### 2017

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester

##### 2018

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    UCI World Cup
       2nd Team pursuit, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
       3rd Team pursuit, Milton

##### 2019

    2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

### World records

| Discipline | Record | Date | Event | Velodrome |
| Team pursuit | 3:56.322 | 27 March 2008 | World Championships | Manchester |
| Team pursuit | 3:55.202 | 17 August 2008 | Olympic Games | Laoshan (Beijing) |
| Team pursuit | 3:53.314 | 18 August 2008 | Olympic Games | Laoshan (Beijing) |
| Team pursuit | 3:53.295 | 4 April 2012 | World Championships | Hisense Arena (Melbourne) |
| Team pursuit | 3:52.499 | 2 August 2012 | Olympic Games | Lee Valley (London) |
| Team pursuit | 3:51.659 | 3 August 2012 | Olympic Games | Lee Valley (London) |
| Team pursuit | 3:50.570 | 12 August 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio Olympic |
| Team pursuit | 3:50.265 | 12 August 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio Olympic |