David Daniell (cyclist)

David Daniell

David Daniell (2012)
To person
Date of birth	December 23, 1989
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Train: short term
Most important successes
UCI Junior World Track Championships 2006, 2007 - team sprint
Last updated: May 7, 2020

David Daniell (born December 23, 1989 in Middlesbrough ) is a British track cyclist .

Athletic career

As a junior, David Daniell was world champion in the team sprint in Ghent in 2006 , together with Jason Kenny and Christian Lyte ; in the 1000 meter time trial he finished third. Also together with Kenny and Lyte, he became Junior European Champion and European Time Trial Champion in Athens . In 2007 he was again junior world champion in the team sprint in Aguascalientes , with Lyte and Peter Mitchell , in the keirin he was vice world champion. In Cottbus , Daniell won the title of Junior European Champion in the sprint , came second in the team sprint (with Lyte and Peter Buck ) and third in the Keirin . At national level he was two-time British junior champion in the sprint and time trial. The following year he was two-time runner-up young European champion, in the team sprint with Lyte and Matthew Crampton and in the time trial, and he also won a national title in the elite class for the first time, also with Lyte and Crampton.

From 2009 Daniell started in the international elite. At the UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen in 2010 , he finished seventh in the time trial and won the silver medal in the Keirin at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi .

Daniell had knee surgery after the Games, and in 2012 he was injured while on a bike ride. At the end of the year he was removed from the UK national team because he could no longer perform. In 2013 he moved from England to East Kilbride near Glasgow to train at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and work as a part-time trainer. His next sporting goal was the Commonwealth Games 2018 , where he wanted to start for Scotland , but he could not qualify.

successes

2006

• Junior World Champion - Team Sprint (with Jason Kenny and Christian Lyte )
• Junior World Championship - 1000 meter time trial
• Junior European Champion - 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Jason Kenny and Christian Lyte )

2007

• Junior World Champion - Team Sprint (with Peter Mitchell and Christian Lyte )
• Junior World Championship - Keirin
• Junior European Champion - Sprint
• Junior European Championship - team sprint (with Tom Buck and Christian Lyte )
• Junior European Championship - 1000 meter time trial
• British champion - sprint, 1000 meter time trial

2008

• European Championship (U23) - 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Matthew Crampton and Christian Lyte )
• British Champion - Team Sprint (with Matthew Crampton and Christian Lyte )

2010

• Commonwealth Games - Keirin

Web links

• David Daniell in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I'm jumping saddles to represent Scotland! In: eveningtimes.co.uk. January 13, 2014, accessed October 10, 2016 .