Katie Archibald

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Katie Archibald Road cycling
Katie Archibald (2015)
Katie Archibald (2015)
To person
Date of birth 12th March 1994 (age 26)
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Track cycling
To the team
Current team Wiggle High5
function driver
Societies)
City of Edinburgh Racing Club
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 gold - team pursuit
UCI track world championships
2018 World Champion - two-man team driving
2017 World Champion - Omnium
2014 World Champion - team pursuit
Last updated: April 14, 2020

Katie Archibald , MBE (born March 12, 1994 in Walton-on-Thames ) is a Scottish track cyclist , Olympic champion (2016) and three-time world champion (2014, 2017, 2018).

Athletic career

Katie Archibald was initially active as a swimmer before starting cycling in 2011. In 2012 she was Scottish junior champion in sprint and keirin as well as British junior champion in points and team pursuit . In 2013 she won the Irish International Track GP twice, in the points race and in the scratch , and in the single pursuit she finished second.

Also in 2013, Archibald won the team pursuit at the European Rail Championships in Apeldoorn , together with Elinor Barker , Laura Trott and Danielle King . In 2014 she became world champion in team pursuit together with Laura Trott, Elinor Barker and Danielle King and in the same year she won two titles as European champion in the single and team pursuit.

In December 2015, Kate Archibald had an accident with a motorcycle and was therefore unable to compete in the World Railroad Championships in March 2016 in London . The sports director of British Cycling , Shane Sutton , she publicly criticized for that ride a motorcycle and called this "crazy" and "a bad choice". Her teammates Jason Kenny and Laura Trott took Archibald under protection. If you train hard every day, you also need other things in life that you enjoy. The British coaches would treat the athletes like "children".

In 2016 Archibald was nominated to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she won the team pursuit with Elinor Barker , Ciara Horne and Joanna Rowsell-Shand . The following year she became world champion in the Omnium and won three national titles, in the single pursuit , in scratch and in points . Also in 2017 she became European champion in the single pursuit for the fourth time in a row .

At the UCI Track World Championships 2018 in Apeldoorn , Katie Archibald and Emily Nelson became world champion in two-man team driving, and in the team pursuit she won silver. Later that year she won two medals at the Commonwealth Games , gold in the singles pursuit, silver in the points race. In addition, she won races in various disciplines at the Track Cycling World Cup 2018/19 . In 2018 and 2019 she was European champion in the team pursuit.

family

Her older brother, John (* 1990), is also an active cyclist. In 2016 he became Scottish champion in the individual time trial over 25 miles.

successes

train

Katie Archibald at the European Track Championships 2017
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Street

2018

Teams

Web links

Commons : Katie Archibald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katie Archibald out of Track World Championships with injury. In: theguardian.com. February 24, 2016, accessed March 2, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Tom Cary: Cyclist Katie Archibald criticized for driving motorbike in wet conditions in Olympic year. In: telegraph.co.uk. February 24, 2016, accessed March 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Simon MacMichael: GB track riders "treated like kids," says Jason Kenny. In: road.cc. March 1, 2016, accessed March 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Martin Williamson: John Archibald - Scottish 25 Mile Time Trial Champion 2016. In: VeloVeritas. September 12, 2016, accessed September 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Archibald, Katie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Walton-on-Thames