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Katy Marchant
English cyclist (born 1993) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Katy Marchant (born 30 January 1993) is a British track cyclist who specialises in the keirin, sprint, team sprint and track time trial disciplines. She is an Olympic and world champion in the team sprint, and a European champion in the 500 m time trial.
Marchant began her sporting career as a heptathlete and represented Great Britain at the 2012 World Junior Championships. She switched to cycling, and became European under-23 champion in the keirin in 2015. She won four senior national titles in 2015, and the following year, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the sprint. In 2018, she won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the Commonwealth Games and won her first World Cup title in 2019 in the keirin. In 2024, she became European champion in the 500 m time trial, and Olympic and World Champion in the team sprint.
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Originally from Leeds, Marchant based herself in Manchester after her switch to cycling in April 2013. She was educated at Brigshaw High School. Marchant began her sporting life as a heptathlete, and represented Great Britain in that event at the 2012 World Junior Championships. The switchover was instigated by her former coach, Toni Minichiello (best known for coaching Jessica Ennis), who suggested the move to cycling having seen the results of her power output on a Wattbike test. Marchant had previously only cycled as a leisure activity, and had no experience of track cycling. After a six-week trial period, she switched to track cycling full-time.[2][3] She became a member of British Cycling's Olympic Academy in April 2013, and graduated to the Olympic Development Programme in November 2013.[4] In July 2014, she won a bronze medal in the team sprint with Rosie Blount at the European under-23 Championships. She also won a bronze medal in the keirin.[5][6] The following year, she became European under-23 champion in the keirin. Earlier in the competition, she and teammate Victoria Williamson claimed a silver medal in the team sprint.[7]
In 2015, she won four national titles at the 2015 British National Track Championships: the sprint, 500m time trial, keirin and the team sprint. In the sprint, she overcame Becky James in the final to seal her first senior national title.[8][9]
Marchant and Jessica Varnish won a silver medal in the team sprint at the 2015-16 World Cup event in Hong Kong.[10] The pair then finished fifth at the 2016 World Championships, missing out on a place in the team sprint at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[11] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the individual sprint. Marchant was defeated by Kristina Vogel in the semi-finals but she overcame Elis Ligtlee in the bronze-medal match. [12] One month after the conclusion of the Olympic Games, Marchant travelled to Izu to attend the Japan Keirin School to try and improve her skills in the discipline.[13]
In the 2017-18 World Cup, Marchant secured a silver medal in the keirin at the leg in Milton, Ontario.[14]
At the 2018 British National Track Championships she won her second time trial and sprint titles to take her tally to six in total.[15] Later that year, she teamed-up with Lauren Bate to win a bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.[16] She finished first in the keirin at the 2019-20 World Cup meeting in Glasgow.[17] At the 2018-19 World Cup, Marchant won a silver medal in the keirin at the meeting in Cambridge, New Zealand.[18]
Marchant was chosen to be part of the UK's 26-strong cycling squad for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[19] She finished 5th in the overall standings. In April 2022, she revealed that she was expecting her first child. She stated that she would return to racing, explaining: "On the plane back [from Tokyo] I felt I was not quite finished, I still had things I wanted to do, and once I found out I was pregnant, something else came over me and I thought, ‘I’m definitely not done’. I love a challenge and I’d really like to give this a go."[20]
Marchant won a silver medal in the team sprint at the 2023 European Championships in Grenchen.[21] In the 2023 Track Nations Cup, Marchant won a bronze medal in the keirin at the meeting in Milton.[22] She won her seventh national title at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, she won the team sprint for the second time.[23]
At the 2024 UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn, Marchant became the first British woman to become European champion in the 500 m time trial.[24] She also won a silver medal in the team sprint.[25] In the 2024 Track Nations Cup, she won a gold medal in the team sprint and a silver medal in the keirin at Adelaide.[26][27] At the next leg of the series in Hong Kong, she was again part of the team sprint line-up that finished first.[28]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Marchant, alongside teammates Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane, won the gold medal in the women’s team sprint. The team broke the world record three times during the event, ultimately setting the new record at 45.186 seconds in the final.[29][30] In the keirin, she finished just outside of the medal positions in fourth place.[31]
At the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark, Marchant teamed with Finucane and Capewell to win gold in the team sprint.[32][33] She additionally won bronze medals in the 500 m time trial and the keirin, with the time trial bronze being her first individual World Championships medal.[34][35] In December, she was involved in a bad crash during a UCI Track Champions League meeting in London. She collided with Alessa-Catriona Propster and the pair went over barriers and ended up in the crowd; the meeting was subsequently abandoned. Marchant was taken to hospital.[36] It was later revealed that she had broken her arm and had dislocated fingers.[37]
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Personal life
Marchant was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[38]
Marchant's husband Rob is a farmer, and the couple have a son born in 2022.[39]
Major results
- 2013
- British National Track Championships
- 2nd
Team sprint (with Victoria Williamson) - 2nd Keirin
- 3rd
Individual sprint
- 2nd
- 2014
- 1st Sprint, Oberhausen
- British National Track Championships
- 2nd Team sprint (with Victoria Williamson)[40]
- 2nd Individual sprint[41]
- 3rd Keirin race[42]
- 3rd 500m time trial[43]
- 2nd
- 3rd Sprint, Revolution – Round 3, Manchester
- 3rd Team Sprint, GP von Deutschland im Sprint (with Jessica Varnish)
- European U23 Track Championships
- 3rd Team Sprint (with Rosie Blount)[44]
- 3rd Keirin race
- 3rd
- 2015
- Revolution
- 1st Keirin - Round 1, Derby
- 1st Sprint - Round 1, Derby
- 1st 500m Time Trial - Round 1, Derby
- 2nd Sprint – Round 3, Manchester
- 3rd Keirin – Round 3, Manchester
- Trofeu CAR Anadia Portugal
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- Open des Nations sur Piste de Roubaix
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- British National Track Championships
- 1st
Individual sprint[45] - 1st Keirin[46]
- 1st Team Sprint (with Jessica Varnish)[47]
- 1st 500m time trial[48]
- 1st
- UEC European U23 Championships
- 1st
Keirin - 2nd Team Sprint (with Victoria Williamson)
- 1st
- Internationale Radsport Meeting
- 2nd Sprint
- 3rd 500m Time Trial
- 2016
- 2015–16 World Cup
- 2nd Team sprint, Hong Kong (with Jessica Varnish)
- Olympic Games
- 3rd
Sprint
- 3rd
- 2nd Keirin, Fenioux Piste International
- 2017
- Siberne Eule von Ludwigshafen
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- 2nd Sprint Internationaal Baan Sprint Keirin Toernooi
- 2nd Sprint, Öschelbronn
- 2017-18 World Cup
- 2nd Keirin, Milton
- 2018
- British National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time trial
- 1st
- Commonwealth Games
- 3rd Team Sprint (with Lauren Bate)
- 3rd
- 2019
- 2018-19 World Cup
- 2nd Keirin, Cambridge
- 2019-20 World Cup
- 1st Keirin, Glasgow
- 2023
- 2023 Track Nations Cup
- 3rd Keirin, Milton
- European Championships
- 2nd
Team sprint (with Emma Finucane, Lauren Bell and Sophie Capewell)
- 2nd
- British National Track Championships
- 1st Team sprint (with Emma Finucane and Milly Tanner)
- 2nd Keirin
- 1st
- 2024
- UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup
- 1st Team Sprint, Adelaide (with Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell)
- 2nd Keirin
- 1st Team sprint, Hong Kong (with Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell)[28]
- Olympic Games
- 1st
Team sprint (with Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell)
- 1st
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Team sprint (with Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell) - 3rd
500 m time trial - 3rd Keirin
- 1st
- European Championships
- 1st
500m time trial - 2nd Team sprint (with Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Lowri Thomas)
- 1st
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