Katie Prankerd

For the musician, see Catie Curtis.

Catherine Rachel "Katie" Prankerd (née Curtis; born 1 November 1988) is a Welsh former professional road and track cyclist.

Katie Prankerd

Personal information
Full name	Catherine Rachel Prankerd
Born	Catherine Rachel Curtis (1988-11-01) 1 November 1988 (age 35) Cardiff, Wales
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight	64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st)[1]
Team information
Current team	Retired
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Endurance
Amateur teams
	Maindy Flyers
	Cardiff Ajax
2007	Team Global Racing
2008	Team Halfords Bikehut
2009	Vision1 Racing
2010–2013	Cardiff Jif
2017	Storey Racing
Professional teams
2014	Starley Primal[2]
2016	Podium Ambition Pro Cycling
Major wins
British Champion Junior x2 Welsh Champion

Career

Born in Cardiff,^[3] Prankerd began competing at a young age with the Maindy Flyers children's cycle club before joining Cardiff Ajax. Prankerd set the record for the 5-kilometre (3.1-mile) Tandem Standing Start event on the track along with Alex Greenfield, with a time of 7 minutes 4.424 seconds. The record was set at the Newport Velodrome on 10 June 2004.^[4] They also held the 10-kilometre (6.2-mile) Tandem Standing Start event on the track, with a time of 13 minutes 10.421 seconds. The record was also set at the Newport Velodrome, on 16 May 2006. In 2008 Prankerd rode with Team Halfords Bikehut before moving to Vision1 Racing in 2009.

Prankerd suffered a setback to her cycling career when she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Subsequently, she took up a coaching role at the Wales National Velodrome in Newport and teamed up with partially sighted cyclist Nia Knight with a view to competing in the tandem event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[5] Prankerd subsequently rode solo, representing Wales in the scratch race, where she finished 7th.^[1][6]

Major results

Track

2003

3rd Scratch, National Youth Championships

2004

National Youth Championships

1st Points race

1st Scratch

2nd Sprint

3rd Scratch, National Junior Championships

Commonwealth Youth Games

4th 500m time trial

7th Points race

2005

National Junior Championships

1st Scratch

2nd Points race

3rd Sprint

3rd Keirin, National Championships

2006

National Junior Championships

1st Points race

2nd Scratch

National Championships

2nd Scratch

3rd Points race

2007

1st WCRA 'Derny Paced' Championships

National Championships

2nd Points race

3rd Derny

3rd Scratch

8th Scratch, UCI Track World Championships

2013

Newport International Cup

3rd Female B 3km Individual pursuit (with Nia Knight)^[7]

7th Female B 1km Time trial (with Nia Knight)^[7]

9th Tandem B road race, UCI Paracycling World Cup round 5, Matane (with Nia Knight)^[8]

2014

7th Scratch, Commonwealth Games^[9]

2015

Revolution Round 6, Manchester

2nd Points race

2nd Scratch

2017

3rd Team pursuit, National Championships

Road

2003

2nd Criterium, National Junior Road Championships

2004

1st Criterium, National Junior Road Championships

2007

1st Road race, Welsh Road Championships

3rd Criterium, National Road Championships

2013

2nd Tandem, National Paracycling Road Circuit Championships (with Nia Knight)^[10]

2014

1st Newport Nocturne^[11]

5th Milk Race^[12]

8th Cheshire Classic^[13]

2015

3rd Women's Tour de Yorkshire^[14]

3rd Milk Race^[15]

5th Cheshire Classic^[16]

9th London Nocturne

References

1. "Katie Curtis: Biography". Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
2. Curtis, Katie (22 March 2014). "Thank you @cardiffjif for all..." Twitter. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
3. "Profile". British Cycling. Archived from the original on 4 January 2008.
4. "A New Record". Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
5. Baker, Gary (22 September 2013). "Knight and Curtis come together to form the perfect partnership". Welsh Sports Association. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
6. "Commonwealth Games 2014: Olympic champion Geraint Thomas and world sprint star Becky James head up Welsh cycling team for Glasgow". Wales Online. 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
7. "Newport International Cup (C1 – Paracycling)". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
8. "UCI Paracycling World Cup #5 – Matane". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
9. Penman, Andrew (26 July 2014). "Bronze for Welsh cyclist Elinor Barker". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
10. "BC National Paracycling Road Circuit Championships". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
11. "The Newport Nocturne". British Cycling. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
12. "The Milk Race 2014". British Cycling. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
13. Wood, Andy (27 April 2014). "2014 Cheshire Classic Results". cheshireclassic.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
14. Abraham, Richard (2 May 2015). "Louise Mahé wins Tour de Yorkshire women's race". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
15. "The Milk Race". British Cycling. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
16. Williams, Huw (26 April 2015). "Victory for Sarah Storey in Women's Road Series". British Cycling. Retrieved 2 May 2015.

External links

• Profile on British Cycling website
• Katie Curtis at UCI
• Katie Curtis at ProCyclingStats
• Katie Curtis at Cycling Quotient
• Katie Curtis at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)