Paul Manning (cyclist)

Paul Manning
	Paul Manning (2019)
To person
Date of birth	November 6, 1974
nation	United Kingdom
End of career	2008
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2008 - team pursuit UCI track world championships 2005, 2007, 2008 - team pursuit
Team (s) as coach
2009–2013 ; 2013-	British National Endurance Team Women ; British National Endurance Team Men
	Last updated: September 29, 2019

Paul Manning MBE (born November 6, 1974 in Stockport ) is a British cycling coach, former cyclist and Olympic champion.

Cycling career

Manning won the Duo Normand time trial on the road in 1996 . The following year he won the time trial of the Tour of Sweden . His first major success was the overall victory in the 2001 Milk Race and two months later a stage victory in the Saxony Tour . In 2002 he also won a stage in the Milk Race and a year later in the Herald Sun Tour . In 2005 Manning drove for the British Continental Team Recycling.co.uk and since 2006 he has been under contract with the Belgian Professional Continental Team Landbouwkrediet-Colnago .

Manning is more successful on the track than on the road. He won his first silver medal at the track cycling world championships in 2000 in the team pursuit. Later at the Olympic Games in Sydney , the British national team secured the bronze medal. Until the next games he was with the national team in the team pursuit three times second and once third at the world championships.

In Athens the British lost to the Australians in the final and secured the silver medal. In the first year after the Olympics, he then managed to win the world title for the first time . At the subsequent World Championships in Bordeaux , he was runner-up for the fifth time and, with his third place, got a medal in the single pursuit for the first time. At the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne he even won the gold medal in the single pursuit and a second gold in the team competition. Manning achieved these successes with Bradley Wiggins , Chris Newton , Steve Cummings , Rob Hayles , Bryan Steel and Geraint Thomas, among others .

2008 Paul Manning won at the Olympic Games in Beijing together with Ed Clancy , Bradley Wiggins and Geraint Thomas the gold medal in the team pursuit after the quartet previously world champion had become. The British four-man won both competitions with a new world record time.

Work as a trainer

After the 2008 Olympics, Manning resigned from active cycling. In 2009 he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). In December 2010, Manning was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame .

Manning became a member of the British Cycling coaching staff and coached women in the endurance area. Under his aegis, the British women's team won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and set a new world record six times. In 2012 he was named Trainer of the Year in Great Britain . In 2013 he took over the supervision of the male endurance riders.