Callum Skinner

Callum Skinner
	Callum Skinner (2017)
To person
Date of birth	February 20, 1992
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	train
Driver type	Short term
End of career	2019
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2016 - Team Sprint (with Jason Kenny ) 2016 - Sprint
	Last updated: November 7, 2018

Callum Skinner (born February 20, 1992 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish sports official, former track cyclist and Olympic champion.

Athletic career

In 2008 Callum Skinner set three national youth records. The following year he was second in the sprint and third in the keirin at the Scottish Junior Track Championships . At the Junior World Track Championships in Moscow in 2009 , he placed in the top ten in the sprint. In the same year he was seventh in the 1000-meter time trial at the European Junior Championships in Minsk . Also in 2010 he was Scottish junior sprint champion and simultaneously junior and elite champion in keirin and runner-up in time trial.

At the 2011 European Track Championships (U23), Skinner was third in the sprint , in the keirin and with Philip Hindes and Peter Mitchell in the team sprint . The following year he finished fourth in the team sprint at the U23 European Track Championships, together with Mitchell and Kian Emadi . Also in 2012 he became British sprint champion, started at the European elite track championship in Panevėžys, Lithuania, and won the bronze medal in team sprint together with Matthew Crampton and Lewis Oliva .

2014 was Skinner's most successful year to date: He became European champion in the 1000-meter time trial and won all four national in the short-term disciplines.

Callum Skinner was a member of the British Cycling Olympic Development Program . In 2016 he was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the team sprint he was Olympic champion together with Jason Kenny , in the sprint he won the silver medal behind Kenny. In the Keirin he could not qualify after the first round. At the Commonwealth Games 2018 he won bronze over the 1000 meters.

In March 2019 Callum Skinner announced his retirement from competitive cycling. In June he stated in an interview that he had suffered from depression and that there was little understanding and empathy in his sporting environment. This finally led him to end his cycling career.

Professional

After the end of his career as an active athlete, Skinner worked for the Global Athlete athletes' representative founded in 2019 , just as he had previously been involved in sports-political issues. He was one of the initiators of the founding of this organization, which is led by Rob Koehler , a former employee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Others

Skinner was the first young athlete in 2008 to receive the Chris Hoy Award for most promising East of Scotland cyclist , presented by the city of Edinburgh , where he lives .

After his Olympic victory in 2016, the Leave.EU initiative advertised on Twitter with photos of successful British Olympians in order to demonstrate the strength of Great Britain even without Europe. Skinner also asked the initiative to remove his photo from this video.

successes

2011

U23 European Championship - Team Sprint (with Peter Mitchell and Philip Hindes )
U23 European Championship - Sprint

2012

European Championship - Team Sprint (with Matthew Crampton and Lewis Oliva )
British Champion - Sprint

2014

European champion - 1000 meter time trial
British Champion - Sprint, Keirin, 1000m Time Trial, Team Sprint (with Philip Hindes , Jason Kenny and Lewis Oliva )