Katie Archibald

Katie Archibald
MBE

Archibald in 2017
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)
Team information
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Discipline	Track & Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Pursuit/Time trial
Amateur teams
Team Thomsons Cycles
City of Edinburgh Racing Club
Professional teams
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Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 1 0 World Championships 4 5 2 European Championships 17 5 1 Commonwealth Games 1 1 1 Total 24 12 4 Women's track cycling Representing Great Britain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit 2020 Tokyo Madison 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit World Championships 2014 Cali Team pursuit 2017 Hong Kong Omnium 2018 Apeldoorn Madison 2021 Roubaix Omnium 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit 2020 Berlin Team pursuit 2021 Roubaix Points race 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit 2021 Roubaix Madison European Championships 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe Individual pursuit 2015 Grenchen Team pursuit 2015 Grenchen Individual pursuit 2015 Grenchen Elimination race 2016 Yvelines Individual pursuit 2016 Yvelines Omnium 2017 Berlin Individual pursuit 2017 Berlin Omnium 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2020 Plovdiv Points race 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit 2021 Grenchen Scratch 2021 Grenchen Omnium 2021 Grenchen Madison 2016 Yvelines Elimination race 2017 Berlin Team pursuit 2018 Glasgow Individual pursuit 2018 Glasgow Omnium 2019 Apeldoorn Madison 2019 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit European U23 Championships 2015 Athens Individual pursuit Representing Scotland Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Individual pursuit 2018 Gold Coast Points race 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.

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) and European (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020) 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, three times in the omnium in 2016, 2017 and 2021, in the scratch race in 2021, the women's madison in 2021 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 17 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. 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.

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.

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. At the Six days of London event, Archibald won eight of the ten races to secure the women's omnium title with 15 points. 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. Archibald returned from injury to finish second at the Six Days of Berlin, and followed it up by winning four titles at the national championships. At the final of the Six Day series in Mallorca, Archibald finished runner up to her team pursuit teammate Elinor Barker. Archibald then capped her track season by winning her first individual world title in the Omnium.

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.

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

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. In October 2021 Archibald was selected for the European Track cycling championships, winning her 15^th and 16^th 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. Archibald joined Sheffield based Team WNT Pro Cycling for the 2017 season. During the 2017 season, Archibald finished third on stage three and four of the Semana Ciclista Valenciana. 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. Archibald finished second in the national road race championship and third in the British time trial championships on the Isle of Man, before taking the circuit racing championship in Sheffield.

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

Major results

Track

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

2012

National Junior Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

2nd Points race

2013

1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships

International Belgian Open

1st Points Race

2nd Individual Pursuit

National Track Championships

2nd Madison (with Charline Joiner)

3rd Individual pursuit

UCI Track World Cup

1st Aguascalientes, Team pursuit

2nd Manchester, Scratch race

3rd Manchester, Individual pursuit

2014

1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

UEC European Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

1st Individual pursuit

National Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

2nd Team pursuit

UCI Track Cycling World Cup

1st Team pursuit – Guadalajara

1st Team pursuit – 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 Track Championships

1st Team pursuit

1st Individual pursuit

1st Elimination race

National Track 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 Track World Championships

2nd Individual pursuit, UEC European Under–23 Track Championships

2016

1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games

UEC European Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Omnium

2nd Elimination race

1st Madison (with Manon Lloyd) – Glasgow, UCI Track World Cup

1st Omnium, Six Days of London

2nd Omnium, Fenioux Piste International

2nd Points Race, Revolution – Round 2, Glasgow

2017

1st Omnium, UCI Track World Championships

UEC European Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Omnium

2nd Team pursuit

National Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Points race

1st Scratch race

1st Omnium

2nd Keirin

UCI Track Cycling World Cup

1st Madison – Round 2, Manchester (with Eleanor Barker)

1st Madison – Round 3, Milton (with Eleanor Dickinson)

1st Points Race – Round 3, Milton

1st Team Pursuit – Round 2, Manchester

2nd Omnium – Round 2, Manchester

International Cycling Meeting for Sprint and Omnium

1st Madison (with Eleanor Dickinson)

1st Omnium

Six Days of Fiorenzuola

1st Madison (with Emily Nelson)

1st Omnium

1st Points Race

1st Scratch Race

1st Overall Six Day London

1st Omnium

2nd Madison (with Lydia Boylan)

3rd Scratch Race

Revolution Series – Champions League

1st Points Race – Round 1, London

1st Scratch Race – Round 1, London

2nd Omnium, Six Days of Berlin

2nd Omnium, Six Day Final, Mallorca

2018

1st Madison (with Emily Nelson), UCI Track World Championships

Commonwealth Games

1st Individual pursuit

2nd Points race

National Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Scratch race

1st Points race

3rd Individual sprint

1st National Madison Championship (with Elinor Barker)

Revolution Series – Champions League

1st Scratch Race – Round 3, Manchester

2nd Points Race – Round 3, Manchester

2nd National Omnium Championship

2019

1st Team Pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Cup II

UEC European Track Championships

1st Team Pursuit

3rd Individual Pursuit

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 Track Cycling World Championships

2020

2nd Team Pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships

UEC European Track Championships

1st Points Race

1st Team Pursuit

2021

Olympic Games

1st Madison (with Laura Kenny)

2nd Team pursuit

UEC European Track Championships

1st Omnium

1st Madison (with Neah Evans)

1st Scratch

UCI Track World Championships

1st Omnium,

3rd Team pursuit,

3rd Madison (with Neah Evans)

Road

2014

1st Milk Race

Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series

1st Stages 1 & 3

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Overall British Cycling Women's Road Series

1st Stages 2 & 6

2015

1st London Nocturne

1st Stage 2 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series

2017

National Road Championships

1st Criterium

2nd Road race

3rd Time trial

2018

1st Prologue BeNe Ladies Tour

Timeline of track racing

Katie Achibald : track career timeline

Event/Year	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Olympic Games	NH	NH	NH	Team pursuit	NH	NH	NH	NH‡	Madison‡ Team pursuit‡
UCI Track Cycling World Championships	-	Team pursuit	Team pursuit	-	Omnium	Madison Team pursuit	Team pursuit	Team pursuit	Omnium Points Race Madison Team pursuit
UEC European Track Championships	Team pursuit	Team pursuit Individual pursuit	Team pursuit Individual pursuit Elimination race	Individual pursuit Omnium Elimination race	Individual pursuit Omnium Team pursuit	Team pursuit Individual pursuit Omnium	Team pursuit Madison	Team pursuit Points race	Omnium Madison Scratch race
Commonwealth Games representing Scotland	NH	Points race	NH	NH	NH	Individual pursuit	NH	NH	NH

NH : not held.

‡ : the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed until 2021 as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic.

External links

• Katie Archibald at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Katie Archibald at ProCyclingStats
• Katie Archibald at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Katie Archibald on Twitter