Oliver Wood (cyclist)

Oliver Wood
	Oliver Wood (r.) At the Track Cycling World Cup ; 2018 in Berlin, with Mark Stewart
To person
Nickname	Ollie
Date of birth	November 26, 1995
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
To the team
Current team	Canyon dhb p / b Soreen
function	driver
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2019 - Team Pursuit Track cycling world cup 2016 - team pursuit European Railway Championships 2016 - team pursuit
	Last updated: February 17, 2020

Oliver "Ollie" Wood (born November 26, 1995 in Wakefield ) is a British cyclist.

Athletic career

Oliver Wood followed his father's example and started cycling. In 2011 he was accepted into the British Cycling's Olympic Development Program and in 2013 the British Cycling Olympic Academy . In the same year he made his debut in the Track Cycling World Cup . In 2014 he won the silver medal in scratch at the U23 European Track Championships . In the same year he set a new 1000-meter world record in two-man team driving with Ed Clancy in a race in the Revolution series with 54.537 seconds , a record previously held by Chris Hoy and Arnaud Tournant .

In 2015 Wood became the European Under23 team pursuit champion, along with Germain Burton , Matthew Gibson and Christopher Latham ; in the Omnium he was runner-up in Europe. The following year he won the first run of the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow in the team pursuit together with Mark Stewart , Kian Emadi , Andrew Tennant and Matthew Bostock ; the British foursome won bronze with Wood at the European Elite Championships.

successes

2014

U23 European Championship - Scratch
British Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Germain Burton , Christopher Latham and Chris Lawless )

2015

European Champion (U23) - Team Pursuit (with Germain Burton , Matthew Gibson and Christopher Latham )
European Championship (U23) - Omnium
British Champions - Team Pursuit (with Germain Burton , Matthew Gibson and Christopher Latham )

2016

Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow - Team Pursuit (with Mark Stewart , Kian Emadi , Andrew Tennant and Matthew Bostock )

European Championship - Team Pursuit (with Matthew Bostock , Kian Emadi and Mark Stewart )

European Champion (U23) - Team Pursuit (with Matthew Bostock , Joe Holt and Mark Stewart )

2017

World Cup in Manchester - Team Pursuit (with Ed Clancy , Steven Burke and Kian Emadi )

2018

Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Ethan Hayter , Kian Emadi and Charlie Tanfield )

European Championship - two-man team driving (with Ethan Hayter )

European Championship - Team Pursuit (with Kian Emadi , Steven Burke , Ethan Hayter and Charlie Tanfield )

British champion - Scratch

2019

World Championship Team Pursuit (with Ed Clancy , Kian Emadi , Charlie Tanfield and Ethan Hayter )

European Championship - Omnium

Teams

Web links

Commons : Oliver Wood - collection of images, videos and audio files

Oliver Wood in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Oliver Wood in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Ollie Wood - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile. In: British Cycling. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ollie Wood - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile. In: British Cycling. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wood, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wood, Ollie (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wakefield

[1] Ollie Wood - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile. In: British Cycling. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .