Emily Kay

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Emily Kay Road cycling
Emily Kay (2016)
Emily Kay (2016)
To person
Date of birth September 7, 1995
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom by 2019 Ireland from 2019
IrelandIreland 
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
Most important successes
UEC European Rail Championships (U23)
2016 European Champion 2016 - team pursuit
UCI Track World Championships for Juniors
2013 World Champion - team pursuit
Last updated: January 26, 2020

Emily Kay (born September 7, 1995 in Bromsgrove ) is a British cyclist who competes on road and track .

Athletic career

Emily Kay's interest in cycling was awakened when she dressed in the pink double Olympic champion in the age of five years, a photo mountain biking , Paola Pezzo , looked in a cycling magazine. She started cycling herself, and by 2016 she had won twelve national titles. In 2012 she played a key role in Lucy Garner's victory in the junior women's road race at the road world championships .

In 2013, Kay was Junior World Champion in team pursuit with Amy Hill , Hayley Jones and Emily Nelson ; The team set a new junior world record with 4: 36.147 minutes . In the Omnium, she took third place. Three years later she won the European title of U23 class in the same discipline (with Dannielle Khan , Manon Lloyd and Emily Nelson), in the Omnium she was third. At the first round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow in 2016/17 , she won the Omnium and the team pursuit (with Eleanor Dickinson , Manon Lloyd, Emily Nelson and Dannielle Khan) by one point over Belgian Lotte Kopecky . At the European Elite Championships, she won silver with Manon Lloyd in the two-man team and bronze in the team pursuit (with Khan, Lloyd and Nelson). At the European Championships 2017 , the British four-man won silver with Kay.

Emily Kay started at the Commonwealth Games and finished third in the scratch ; in the same discipline, she became vice-European champion in 2018 . In the team pursuit, she was successful again when the British four-man won the World Cup in Berlin .

In autumn 2019, Emily Kay switched from the British to the Irish Cycling Federation.

successes

Kay (l.) In the two-man team at the European Championship 2016, with Emily Nelson
2013
2016
2017
2018

Teams

Web links

Commons : Emily Kay  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irish women put on powerful show in Minsk, shattering national record. In: Stickybottle. October 31, 2019, accessed January 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kay, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromsgrove