Jamie Staff

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Jamie Staff Road cycling
Revolution 18, Manchester, 2007
Revolution 18, Manchester, 2007
To person
Full name Jamie Alan Staff
Date of birth April 30, 1973
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline BMX / track cycling
Driver type sprinter
Most important successes

Arc en ciel.svgBMX world champion in cruiser
Arc en ciel.svgtrack bike world champion in Keirin 2004
Arc en ciel.svgtrack bike world champion in team sprint 2002, 2005
Olympic flag.svgOlympic champion in team sprint 2008

Last updated: August 30, 2008

Jamie Alan Staff (born April 30, 1973 in Ashford , Great Britain ) is a British cyclist who was active as a BMX and track cyclist . His greatest successes were a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the team sprint and medals at the UCI track world championships .

life and career

Jamie Staff started BMX at the age of nine. He went to the United States and competed in the ABA (American Bicycle Association) and NBL (National Bicycle League) series. In 1996 he won a gold medal at the BMX World Championship. Since BMX was not an Olympic sport at the time, he switched to track cycling.

Staff was able to qualify for the English cycling team straight away and win the silver medal in the team sprint, the bronze medal in the 1000 meter time trial and break the national record over 200 m for England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games . In the same year he won the gold medal in the team sprint together with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean at the UCI Track World Championships in 2002 in Ballerup, Denmark .

In 2004 Jamie started at the Olympic Games in Athens and finished twelfth in the keirin and fifth in the team sprint (with Hoy, MacLean and Jason Queally ). He won a silver medal in the team sprint at both the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the World Track Championships in the same year. In 2008 he won the team sprint with Hoy and Jason Kenny in a new world record time at the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing. Staff drove the fastest first lap ever driven in a team sprint.

In March 2010, Jamie Staff announced his retirement from competitive cycling due to chronic back problems. A little later he became the US national coach for short-term track cycling.

successes

  • 1996 world champion BMX
  • 2002 Bronze 1000m time trial (England), Commonwealth Games
  • 2002 Silver Team Sprint (England), Commonwealth Games
  • 2002 gold team sprint, world championship
  • 2003 Silver Sprint, National Championship
  • 2003 Silver Sprint, World Cup, Mexico
  • 2003 Gold 1000 m time trial, World Cup, Mexico
  • 2003 Gold Team Sprint, World Cup, South Africa
  • 2004 Gold Keirin, UCI Track World Championship, Melbourne
  • 2005 Gold Team Sprint, World Championship
  • 2004 Bronze Team Sprint, World Championship, Melbourne
  • 2006 Silver Team Sprint, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
  • 2006 silver team sprint, UCI track world championship
  • 2007 bronze individual time trial, UCI track world championship, Palma de Mallorca
  • 2008 Silver Team Sprint, UCI Track World Championship, Manchester
  • 2008 Gold Team Sprint, Olympic Games, Beijing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radsport-news.com of March 30, 2010: "Olympic Champion Staff resigns
  2. ↑ Interview With Jamie Staff MBE on cyclingshorts.wordpress.com , accessed June 29, 2011
  3. ↑ Jamie Staff on britishcycling.org.uk/interviews ( Memento of April 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk of March 19, 2006: Gold for Scotland in team sprint

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personal data
SURNAME Staff, Jamie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staff, Jamie Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashford