Katie Archibald

Katie Archibald

File:2015 UEC Track Elite European Championships 364.JPG Archibald at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships
Personal information
Born	(1994-03-12) 12 March 1994 St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, England
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st)
Team information
Current team	Scottish Cycling Braveheart.com
Discipline	Track & Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Pursuit/Time trial
Amateur team(s)
City of Edinburgh Racing Club
Professional team(s)
2014	Madison Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Team
Medal record Representing Great Britain Track cycling World Championships 2014 Cali Team Pursuit 2015 Yvelines Team Pursuit European Championships 2013 Apeldoorn Team Pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe Team Pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe Pursuit 2015 Grenchen Team Pursuit 2015 Grenchen Pursuit 2015 Grenchen Elimination race Representing Scotland Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Points race

Katie Archibald (born 12 March 1994) is a Scottish racing cyclist from Milngavie, near Glasgow, Scotland, who currently rides on the track for Great Britain and the Scottish Cycling Braveheart.com team. She is a reigning world and European champion (2014) in women's team pursuit as part of the Great Britain team, and the reigning European individual pursuit and elimination race champion.

She will also represent the Madison Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Team on the roads from 2014.

Early life and career

Archibald has a sporting background in swimming and took up cycling relatively late, taking it up competitively in 2011 on the grass track and in 2012 on hard track.

After spending 2012-2013 working in the family business (Archers Sleepcentre) as a telesales operator, she was recruited into British Cycling's Olympic Development Academy in November 2013.

Track

Archibald made her Great Britain debut at the 2013 European Track Championships. Alongside Laura Trott, Dani King and Elinor Barker, she won the gold medal and broke the world record twice in the team pursuit.

At the 2013–14 Track World Cup first round in Manchester, while riding for the Scottish Braveheart team, Archibald claimed silver in the scratch race and bronze in the points race. Recalled to the Great Britain team for the 2013–14 Track World Cup second round in Aguascalientes, Archibald was part of the quartet that won gold and broke the world record again in the team pursuit competition.

She then became Scotland's first female track cycling world champion, when she was part of the team that won the team pursuit title at the 2014 World Track Championships. Archibald won the gold medal in the same event, and another in the individual pursuit, at the 2014 European Track Championships. Archibald represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014, as she claimed a bronze medal in the points race.

At the 2015 European Track Championships, Archibald became a triple European champion, retaining the team pursuit and individual pursuit titles she won in 2014, while adding the elimination race title.

Road

Her road cycling team Podium Ambition, formerly Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International, turned professional for the start of the 2015–16 UCI Women's WorldTour. She, along with team-mates Sarah Storey and Joanna Rowsell, were the first riders to be named in the new line-up.

Palmarés

Source:

2012

1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships – Junior

2nd Points race, British National Track Championships – Junior

2013

2nd British National Madison Championships, (with Charline Joiner)

3rd Pursuit, British National Track Championships

2013 UEC European Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

15th Points race

2013–14 UCI Track World Cup

2nd Scratch race, Round 1 in Manchester

3rd Individual pursuit, Round 1 in Manchester

1st Team pursuit, Round 2 in Aguascalientes

2014

1st Milk Race

2014 UCI World Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

4th Points race

2014 British National Road Championships

2nd Time trial

6th Road race

2014 Commonwealth Games

3rd Points race

4th Individual pursuit

5th Scratch race

5th Road time trial

7th Road race

2014 British National Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

2nd Team pursuit

4th Scratch race

6th Points race

10th Time trial

2014 UEC European Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

1st Individual pursuit

2014–15 UCI Track World Cup

1st Team pursuit, Round 1 in Guadalajara

17th Omnium, Round 1 in Guadalajara

1st Team pursuit, Round 2 in London

Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series

1st Stages 1 & 3

2nd Sprint classification

British Cycling Women’s Road Series

3rd Overall

1st Stages 2 & 6

2015

2015 UCI World Track Championships

2nd Team pursuit

5th Individual pursuit

2015 British National Road Championships

6th Time trial

6th Road race

2015 UEC U-23 European Track Championships

2nd Individual pursuit

6th Scratch race

2015 British National Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

2nd Individual pursuit

2nd Scratch race

2nd Points race

2015 UEC European Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

1st Individual pursuit

1st Elimination race

1st London Nocturne

1st Stage 2, Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series

External links

• Katie Archibald at Cycling Archives
• Katie Archibald on Twitter

• Profile at British Cycling Federation
• Profile at Cycling Archives