2013 British National Track Championships

The 2013 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held from 25 to 29 September 2013, at the Manchester Velodrome. They were organised and sanctioned by British Cycling, and were open to British cyclists.[1][2]

2013 British National Track Championships
VenueManchester, England
Date(s) (2013-09-25 - 2013-09-29)25–29 September 2013
VelodromeManchester Velodrome
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Competition

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Separate competitions were held for both men and women, and certain events were also included for paracyclists and juniors. No events were held in Women's Omnium or Men's Madison; otherwise the men's and women's programme was broadly identical, and matched the programme of the UCI World Track Cycling Championships, with the addition of a women's madison race. The women's team pursuit was held over 4000m for four cyclists for the first time following modifications to the event.

Open to British cyclists, the winners of each event are entitled to wear the national champion's jersey - a white jersey with a red, white and blue front stripe - for the next year when competing in that discipline.

The 2013 event was dominated by established Olympic cyclists, the most successful of which was Double Olympic champion Laura Trott, winning four titles (two in team events) and a silver medal; only a surprise win in the scratch race for Corrine Hall prevented a clean sweep of 5 endurance titles. Jessica Varnish did complete a sprint sweep of 4 titles, including the team sprint with Dannielle Khan. Trott, with Danielle King, Joanna Rowsell and Elinor Barker also set a new world record on the way to achieving the gold medal in the recently revised women's team pursuit. The previous world record, over a shorter distance and for three riders, is also held by Trott, Rowsell and King.

The medals were more evenly distributed among the men, as several endurance events went uncontested by established talent, and so provided opportunities for up and coming riders. Jason Kenny won three, and Kian Emadi won two, of the sprint disciplines, while Matthew Crampton won a medal in all four, including gold in the team sprint with Emadi and Kenny.

Also noteworthy was the unusual double almost achieved by Ed Clancy, winning gold in the individual pursuit, and silver in the Kilo, normally considered a time trial for sprint athletes only. Clancy also won gold in the points race and silver in the scratch, but did not contest the team pursuit, in which discipline he was reigning Olympic champion. Other noteworthy performances included several medal rides in sprint disciplines by converted heptathlete Katy Marchant in her first major event. Although double World champion Becky James did not compete, her sister Rachel did attend, winning a pair of medals.

Medal summary

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Men's Events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Events
Kilo Kian Emadi
Tunstall Wheelers CC
1.01.702 Ed Clancy
Rapha Condor
1.02.189 Matthew Crampton
BCUM
1.02.636
Sprint Jason Kenny
Sky Track Cycling
Peter Mitchell
Performance Cycle Coaching
Matthew Crampton
BCUM
Keirin Jason Kenny
Sky Track Cycling
Matthew Crampton
BCUM
Lewis Oliva
USN
Team sprint Matthew Crampton
Kian Emadi
Jason Kenny
Philip Hindes
Matt Rotherham
Callum Skinner
Jonathan Biggin
John Paul
Bruce Croall
Individual Pursuit Ed Clancy
Rapha Condor
4.26.015 Steven Burke
Node4 - Giordana
4.27.408 Joe Kelly
100% Me
catch made
Team pursuit Adam Duggleby
Timothy Lawson
Jacob Ragan
Alistair Rutherford

Wheelbase AlturaMGD
4.23.188 Andrew Hastings
John McClelland
Alex Minting
Kristian Woolf
Prestige VC
4.27.691 Ben Elliott
Jack Green
Barney Storey
Alex Wise
VC St Raphael
4.27.001
Points race Ed Clancy
Rapha Condor
59 Sam Harrison
100% Me
57 Jacob Ragan
Wheelbase Altura
51
Scratch race Sam Harrison
100% Me
Ed Clancy
Rapha Condor
Steven Burke
Node4 - Giordana
Omnium Jon Mould
USN
Christopher Latham
100% Me
Christopher Lawless
Kuota-Spinergy-GSG

Women's Events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's Events
500m time trial Jessica Varnish
Team C-Sprint Racing
34.445 Victoria Williamson
Victoria VC Norwich
34.913 Dannielle Khan
Solihull CC
35.345
Sprint Jessica Varnish
Team V-Sprint Racing
2-0 Victoria Williamson
Victoria VC Norwich
Katy Marchant
BCUM
2-0 *
Keirin Jessica Varnish
Team V-Sprint Racing
Katy Marchant
BCUM
Rachel James
Abergavenny RC
Team sprint Dannielle Khan
Jessica Varnish

rep. West Midlands
33.852 Katy Marchant
Victoria Williamson
rep. Eastern
Ellie Coster
Rachel James
rep. Wales
Individual Pursuit Laura Trott
Wiggle Honda
3:34.973 Danielle King
Wiggle Honda
3:42.355 Katie Archibald
City of Edinburgh RC
3:42.008*
Team pursuit Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell
Danielle King
Elinor Barker

Great Britain/
Wiggle Honda
4:32.721 WR, EUR Eleanor Jones
Madelaine Moore
Adel Tyson-Bloor
Rachel Murray
VC St Raphael
5:12.242
Only two medals awarded
Points race Laura Trott
Wiggle Honda
28 Danielle King
Wiggle Honda
19 Elinor Barker
Wiggle Honda
Scratch race Corrine Hall
Matrix Fitness R A
Laura Trott
Wiggle Honda
Danielle King
Wiggle Honda
Madison Laura Trott
Danielle King
Wiggle Honda
Katie Archibald
Charline Joiner
Scratch team
Hayley Jones
Emily Kay
Scratch team
  • in bronze medal final ride off

WR = World REcord; EUR = European Record

Para-cycling Events

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A series of para-cycling national championships were also held over combined categories using a points system. Tandem events were held for blind and visually impaired cyclists which other categories were put together in weighted mixed events.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Para-cycling Events
BVI Mixed Gender 1000m Sophie Thornhill
Helen Scott
99.351 pts
AT : 1:09.714
TT : 1.08.714
Neil Fachie
Peter Mitchell
98.179 pts
AT : 1:02.489
TT : 1.01.351
Aileen McGlynn
Lauryn Therin
97.919pts
AT : 1:10.174
TT : 1:08.714
C1-5 Mixed Gender Sprint Time Trial Jon-Allan Butterworth
Cat : MC5
100.338 pts
AT : 1.05.725 (1 km)
TT : 1:05.947
Shaun McKeown
Cat : MC3
94.438 pts
AT : 1:12.712 (1 km)
TT : 1:08.668
Crystal Lane
Cat : FC5
92.288 pts
AT : 39.793 (500m)
TT : 36.724
BVI Mixed Gender 200m flying lap Sophie Thornhill
Helen Scott
101.578 pts
AT : 11.278
TT : 11.456
Neil Fachie
Peter Mitchell
99.054 pts
AT : 10.146
TT : 10.050
Aileen McGlynn
Lauryn Therin
97.823pts
AT : 11.711
TT : 11.456
C1-5 Mixed Gender 200m flying lap Crystal Lane
Cat : FC5
101.302 pts
AT : 12.753
TT : 12.919
Mazyar Ossamisaeed
Cat : MC2
100.924 pts
AT : 14.615
TT : 14.750
Jaco van Gass
Cat : MC3
93.174 pts
AT : 13.448
TT : 12.530

AT = Actual Time TT = Target or reference time

Under 16 Madison Events

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The British Under 16 Madison championships were also held as part of the competition.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Madison Events - Under 16
Boys' Madison Joseph Fry
Joey Walker
17 pts Tom England
Tom Rotherham
9pts Matthew Walls
Reece Wood
7 pts
Girls' Madison Megan Barker
Jessica Roberts
15 pts (+1 lap) Eleanor Dickinson
Elizabeth Holden
8 pts Abigail Dentus
Lucy Shaw
8 pts

References

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  1. ^ "News". British Cycling.
  2. ^ "BRITISH CYCLING'S BEST LINED UP FOR NATIONAL TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Cycling.