Katie Archibald

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Katie Archibald
MBE
Archibald in 2017
Personal information
Born (1994-03-12) 12 March 1994 (age 30)[1]
Chertsey, Surrey, England
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight67 kg (148 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamCeratizit–WNT Pro Cycling
Disciplines
  • Track
  • Road
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Pursuitist (track)
  • Time trialist (road)
Amateur teams
Team Thomsons Cycles
City of Edinburgh Racing Club[2]
Professional teams
2014–2016Madison–Boot Out Breast Cancer Care
2017Team WNT
2018Wiggle High5
2022–Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 1 0
World Championships 5 6 2
European Championships 20 5 1
Commonwealth Games 1 1 1
Total 28 13 4
Women's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Madison
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Cali Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2018 Apeldoorn Madison
Gold medal – first place 2021 Roubaix Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2023 Glasgow Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2020 Berlin Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2021 Roubaix Points race
Silver medal – second place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Roubaix Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2014 Guadeloupe Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2015 Grenchen Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2015 Grenchen Elimination
Gold medal – first place 2015 Grenchen Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Yvelines Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Yvelines Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2017 Berlin Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2017 Berlin Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Points race
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2021 Grenchen Scratch
Gold medal – first place 2021 Grenchen Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2021 Grenchen Madison
Gold medal – first place 2023 Grenchen Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2023 Grenchen Madison
Gold medal – first place 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2016 Yvelines Elimination
Silver medal – second place 2017 Berlin Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2019 Apeldoorn Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit
European U23 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Athens Individual pursuit
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast Points race
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Glasgow Points race

Katie Archibald, MBE (born 12 March 1994) is an elite Scottish and British racing cyclist, specialising in endurance track cycling events in which she represents Great Britain and Scotland.[3]

A member of the Great Britain 2016 Olympic champion and 2020 Olympic silver medallists team in women's team pursuit, she is a champion in the same event at both the World (2014, 2023) and European (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023) championships and former world record holder. She also holds an Olympic gold medal after winning the inaugural women's Madison race at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with her partner, Laura Kenny.

Individually, Archibald has been European champion in the elimination race in 2015, four times in the omnium in 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2023, in the scratch race in 2021, the women's madison twice in 2021 and 2023 and a four time European champion in the individual pursuit between 2013 and 2017. In 2017 she secured her first individual global title, winning the Omnium at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and won a third world championship the following year when partnering Emily Nelson to win the Madison at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In 2021 she won her second individual world title, with a second world Omnium title.

Archibald's 20 gold medals in European elite track championships is an all-time record for that championships. She also holds the women's British national record for the individual pursuit.

Her brother, John, is also an elite cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Scotland.[4] Both won medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games representing Scotland; Katie won gold in the women's individual pursuit and John silver in the men's.

Early life and career

Archibald was privately educated at The Glasgow Academy. She 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.[2]

After spending 2012–2013 working in the family business (Archers Sleepcentre) as a telesales operator,[5][6] she was recruited into British Cycling's Olympic Development Academy in November 2013.[3]

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.[7][8]

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.[9][10] Recalled to the Great Britain team for the 2013–14 Track World Cup second round in Aguascalientes,[11][12] Archibald was part of the quartet that won gold and broke the world record again in the team pursuit competition.[13][14]

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.[15][16] Archibald won the gold medal in the same event, and another in the individual pursuit, at the 2014 European Track Championships.[17][18] Archibald represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014, as she claimed a bronze medal in the points race.[19][20]

Archibald at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships, where she won three gold medals.

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.[21][22]

Winning gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Archibald returned to competition at the European Championships winning the omnium and for the third year in a row the pursuit and claimed the silver medal in the elimination race.[23][24][25] At the Six days of London event, Archibald won eight of the ten races to secure the women's omnium title with 15 points.[26][27] Archibald then returned to Glasgow for the World Cup event, where she partnered Manon Lloyd to win the Madison event, but broke her wrist in an early fall whilst changing with Lloyd.[28][29] Archibald returned from injury to finish second at the Six Days of Berlin,[30][31] and followed it up by winning four titles at the national championships.[32] At the final of the Six Day series in Mallorca, Archibald finished runner up to her team pursuit teammate Elinor Barker.[33] Archibald then capped her track season by winning her first individual world title in the Omnium.[34]

Archibald retained her Individual Pursuit and Omnium titles at the European Championships and was also part of the team that took the silver medal in the team pursuit.[35][36][37]

Archibald was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[38]

Archibald was chosen to be part of the UK's cycling squad at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she was joined by Elinor Barker, Neah Evans, Laura Kenny and Josie Knight for the endurance races. She returned with a silver medal in the Women's team pursuit, but shared the inaugural gold medal in Women's Madison with Laura Kenny.[39] In October 2021 Archibald was selected for the European Track cycling championships, winning her 15th and 16th gold medals in the Scratch race and Omnium to become the elite events most successful ever competitor.

Road

Her road cycling team Podium Ambition, formerly Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International, turned professional for the start of the 2016 UCI Women's World Tour. She, along with team-mates Sarah Storey and Joanna Rowsell, were the first riders to be named in the new line-up.[40][41] Archibald joined Sheffield based Team WNT Pro Cycling for the 2017 season.[42] During the 2017 season, Archibald finished third on stage three and four of the Semana Ciclista Valenciana.[43][44] In the domestic Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series, Archibald won round 2 in Stoke-on-Trent and finished second in the opening event in Redditch.[45][46] Archibald finished second in the national road race championship and third in the British time trial championships on the Isle of Man,[47][48] before taking the circuit racing championship in Sheffield.[49]

For the 2018 season Archibald decided to join Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling.[50]

Personal life

Archibald's partner, Scottish racing cyclist Rab Wardell, died on 23 August 2022; she revealed she had unsuccessfully tried to save his life as he entered cardiac arrest in bed beside her.[51]

Major results

Road

2014
1st Milk Race
Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series
1st Stages 1 & 3[52][53]
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Overall British Cycling Women's Road Series
1st Cheshire Classic[54]
1st Curlew Cup[55]
Commonwealth Games
5th Time trial
7th Road race
2015
1st London Nocturne
1st Stage 2 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series[56]
2017
National Road Championships
1st Criterium
2nd Road race
3rd Time trial
2018
3rd Overall BeNe Ladies Tour
1st Prologue
4th Time trial, Commonwealth Games
2022
4th Overall Bloeizone Fryslân Tour

Track

2012
National Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
2013
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
International Belgian Open
1st Points race
2nd Individual pursuit
National Championships
2nd Madison (with Charline Joiner)
3rd Individual pursuit
UCI World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Aguascalientes
2nd Scratch race, Manchester
3rd Individual pursuit, Manchester
2014
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UEC European Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Individual pursuit
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, London
Revolution
1st Points race – Round 3, Manchester
2nd Omnium – Round 1, London
2nd Points race – Round 4, Manchester
3rd Omnium – Round 5, London
2nd Omnium, Fenioux Piste International
3rd Points race, Commonwealth Games
2015
UEC European Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Individual pursuit
1st Elimination race
National Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Scratch race
2nd Points race
1st Omnium, Internationale Radsport Meeting
Revolution
1st Scratch race – Round 1, Derby
2nd Points race – Round 2, Manchester
2nd Points race – Round 5, London
2nd Scratch race – Round 4, Glasgow
3rd Points race – Round 3, Manchester
3rd Points race – Round 4, Glasgow
3rd Scratch race – Round 5, London
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2nd Individual pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Cali
2016
1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
UEC European Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Omnium
2nd Elimination
1st Madison (with Manon Lloyd), UCI World Cup, Glasgow
1st Omnium, Six Days of London
2nd Omnium, Fenioux Piste International
2nd Points race, Revolution – Round 2, Glasgow
2017
1st Omnium, UCI World Championships
UEC European Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Omnium
2nd Team pursuit
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Scratch race
1st Omnium
2nd Keirin
UCI World Cup
1st Madison, Manchester (with Elinor Barker)
1st Madison, Milton (with Ellie Dickinson)
1st Points race, Milton
1st Team pursuit, Manchester
2nd Omnium, Manchester
International Cycling Meeting
1st Madison (with Ellie Dickinson)
1st Omnium
Six Days of Fiorenzuola
1st Madison (with Emily Nelson)
1st Omnium
1st Points race
1st Scratch race
1st Overall Six Days of London[57]
1st Omnium
2nd Madison (with Lydia Boylan)
3rd Scratch race
Round 1, Revolution Series Champions League
1st Points race
1st Scratch race
2nd Omnium, Six Days of Berlin
2nd Omnium, Six Day Final, Mallorca
2018
UCI World Championships
1st Madison (with Emily Nelson)
2nd Team pursuit
Commonwealth Games
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
UEC European Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Omnium
UCI World Cup
1st Madison, Milton (with Elinor Barker)
1st Team pursuit, Milton
1st Omnium, Berlin
1st Team pursuit, Berlin
1st Madison, London (with Laura Kenny)
1st Team pursuit, London
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Scratch race
1st Points race
1st Madison (with Elinor Barker)
3rd Sprint
Round 3, Revolution Series Champions League
1st Scratch race
2nd Points race
2019
UEC European Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Madison (with Laura Kenny)
3rd Individual pursuit
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
3rd Points race
3rd Scratch race
3rd Sprint
UCI World Cup, Glasgow
1st Team pursuit
2nd Madison (with Elinor Barker)
Six Day Manchester
1st Madison (with Neah Evans)
1st Omnium
1st Omnium, Six Day Finals – Brisbane
6 Giorni delle Rose – Fiorenzuola
1st Madison
2nd Omnium
Orlen Grand Prix
1st Madison (with Neah Evans)
1st Points race
Six Day London
1st Madison (with Neah Evans)
1st Omnium
2nd Scratch race
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2020
UEC European Championships
1st Points race
1st Team pursuit
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2021
Olympic Games
1st Madison (with Laura Kenny)
2nd Team pursuit
UCI World Championships
1st Omnium
2nd Points race
3rd Team pursuit
3rd Madison (with Neah Evans)
UEC European Championships
1st Omnium
1st Madison (with Neah Evans)
1st Scratch race
1st Overall Endurance, UCI Champions League
1st Elimination race, Palma
1st Scratch race, Panevėžys
1st Elimination race, Panevėžys
1st Elimination race, London I
1st Elimination race, London II
2nd Scratch race, London II
3rd Scratch race, London I
2022
2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow
2023
UEC European Championships
1st Omnium
1st Team pursuit
1st Madison (with Elinor Barker)

Championships timeline

Event 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Olympic Games Madison Not held Not held 1 Not Held
Team pursuit 1 2
World Championships Individual pursuit 5 5
Madison 1 4 3
Omnium 1 7 1
Points race 4 2
Scratch 6
Team pursuit 1 2 2 2 2 3 1
European Championships Elimination race Not held 1 2
Individual pursuit NH 1 1 1 1 2 3
Madison Not held 4 2 1 1
Omnium 1 1 2 1 1
Points race 15 16 1
Scratch NH 1
Team pursuit 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
Commonwealth Games Individual pursuit NH 4 Not held 1 Not held NH
Points race 3 2
Scratch 5 4
National Championships Individual pursuit 3 1 2 NH 1 1 1 NH
Keirin 2
Madison 2 Not held 1 Not held
Omnium Race did not exist 1 Not held
Points race 2 NH 1 1 3 NH
Scratch 2 1 1 3
Sprint 3 3
Team pursuit 2 1
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NH Not held
IP In progress

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