Olympic Games
| Year | Venue | Team Pursuit |
| 2008 | Beijing, CHN | 1 |
World Championships
| Year | Venue | Omnium | Team Pursuit |
| 2011/2012 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 4 | 1 |
| 2010/2011 | Apeldoorn, NED | 3 | |
| 2009/2010 | Ballerup, DEN | 1 | 2 |
| 2008/2009 | Pruszkow, POL | 4 | |
| 2008 | Manchester, GBR | 1 | |
| 2007 | Palma de Mallorca, ESP | 1 |
European Championships
| Year | Venue | Omnium | Team Pursuit |
| 2011/2012 | Apeldoorn, NED | 1 | 1 |
| 2010/2011 | Pruszkow, POL | 4 | 1 |
World Cup Overview 2008 - 2012
| Year | Venue | 4km Individual Pursuit | Omnium | Team Pursuit |
| 2011/2012 | London, GBR | 2 | ||
| 2010/2011 | Manchester, GBR | 1 | ||
| 2010/2011 | Cali, COL | 1 | ||
| 2010/2011 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 3 | 3 | |
| 2009/2010 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 2 | ||
| 2009/2010 | Manchester, GBR | 1 | ||
| 2008/2009 | Ballerup, DEN | 1 | ||
| 2008/2009 | Manchester, GBR | 1 | 1 |
World Cup (Ranking)
| Year | 4km Individual Pursuit | Omnium |
| 2010/2011 | 3 | |
| 2008/2009 | 3 |
Hobbies
Motorsport, racing his own cars, motorbikes. (edclancy.com, 03 Feb 2012)
Occupation
Athlete
Club name
Rapha Condor Sharp [road], Great Britain
Debut
2004 for Great Britain, World Cup (Russia) (britishcycling.org.uk, 03 Mar 2005)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
He started riding club time trials at age 14 with the Holme Valley Wheelers. (NOC, 29 Jul 2008; edclancy.com, 03 Feb 2012)
Reason for taking up this sport
He was hyperactive, needed to expend energy and his stepfather bought him a bike. (NOC, 29 Jul 2008; guardian.co.uk, 13 Sep 2008)
Training
"Short blocks of team time trialling, threshold efforts uphill... everything to make us fitter or faster. There's not a lot of junk miles. The road guys need that depth and fat-burning ability – the ability to be strong after five or six hours. Everthing's aimed at making your peak power higher or your aerobic capacity greater." (road.cc, 22 Jan 2011)
Most memorable sporting achievement
Setting a new world record to win gold as part of Great Britain's team in the men's team pursuit final at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. "This was about four years of work coming together in less than four minutes. We were hoping for a good time, but that was special. I'll never forget it." (thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, 19 Aug 2008; on-magazine.co.uk, 01 Jul 2011)
Hero
England's multiple motorcycle trial world champion, Dougie Lampkin. (eurosport.com, 25 Jan 2012)
Most influential person in career
His stepfather Kevin, who bought him his first bike and took him to his first trials, and Steve Peters, the British cycling team's psychiatrist who he credits for transforming him from an amateur into a professional. (guardian.co.uk, 13 Sep 2008)
Sporting philosophy / motto
"I live and die for the team pursuit. That's in my heart and what gets me out of bed." (telegraph.co.uk, 03 Feb 2012)
Awards
He was appointed Member of the British Empire [MBE] in 2009. (raphacondor.cc, 03 Feb 2012)
General
EARLY DAYS
After being spotted at the age of 15 while attending a British Cycling event, he passed up the chance to study engineering at university in order to be part of the British Cycling Academy's first intake, alongside the likes of Mark Cavendish and Geraint Thomas. (eurosport.com, 25 Jan 2012; edclancy.com, 03 Feb 2012)
LOW POINT
He suffered a low point in his career in early 2006, but couldn't understand the source of his problems. "I was really poor at the [2006] Commonwealth Games. I didn't even make the team for the team pursuit. I was in really bad form. I started thinking 'is this really what I want to do?'" The British cycling team's psychiatrist, Steve Peters, helped him identify his parents' divorce and subsequent abandonment by his biological father as the root cause of his motivational problems. "I'd never spoken to anyone about it and I'd kept it bottled up inside me. The process with Steve brought me some sense of self-confidence and self-belief. I used to wake up in the morning and think 'I'm never going to beat this guy on the track', I just never thought I was good enough or at the same level as them. Today I think differently. I deserve to be there. I'm as good and strong as they are." (on-magazine.co.uk, 01 Jul 2011)
THE ROAD
He announced his intention to concentrate on road cycling after the 2012 Olympic Games in London. "I want to leave the track alone, at least for a couple of years," he said. "I do love riding the track but when you're a kid, you grow up watching the Tour de France. You ride the road bike nine times out of 10. I'll be 28 the year after London and I'll probably feel that it's time to try something else. I'd regret it, looking back on my career, if I never gave the road a shot." (road.cc, 22 Jan 2011)
Previous Olympics
Beijing 2008
