2014 British National Track Championships

The 2014 British National Track Championships are a series of track cycling competitions held from 24–28 September 2014, at the Manchester Velodrome. They were organised and sanctioned by British Cycling, and were open to British cyclists.

2014 British National Track Championships
VenueManchester, England
Date(s) (2014-09-24 - 2014-09-28)24–28 September 2014
VelodromeManchester Velodrome
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Competition

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Separate competitions were held for both men and women, and 6 events were also included for paracyclists, an increase on 4 in 2013. No events were held in Omnium or Madison; the men's and women's programme was broadly identical, and otherwise matched the programme of the UCI World Track Cycling Championships. The women's team pursuit was held over 4000m for four cyclists for the second year.

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 sprint events were dominated by Callum Skinner and Jessica Varnish picking up four gold each, and a clean sweep of sprint events; Skinner shared team sprint gold with Olympic champions Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes, while Varnish secured team sprint gold with Dannielle Khan. All women's individual sprint medals were shared among Varnish, Khan, Victoria Williamson and Katy Marchant. Matthew Crampton took silvers in each of the individual sprint events.

The endurance events produced more unpredictable racing with Paralympian Dame Sarah Story securing points race gold, and Katie Archibald beating World, Olympic and Commonwealth champions Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott in the individual pursuit.

Almost forty years after Maurice Burton, Britain's first black national champion on the track won the last of his senior national titles, his son Germain won his first, in the team pursuit.

Rachel James, sister of absent former World Champion Becky James achieved a unique double, medalling in both able bodied and paralympic events; she achieved a bronze in the team sprint, and piloted double Commonwealth Games champion Sophie Thornhill to two National titles for blind or visually impaired cyclists, in Kilo and 200m flying lap time trials.

Medal summary

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Men's Events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Events
Kilo Callum Skinner
The Rigmar Racers
1.01.843 Matthew Crampton
Sprint-Team
1.02.636 Matt Rotherham
Sportcity Velo
1.03.497
Sprint Callum Skinner
The Rigmar Racers
Matthew Crampton
Sprint-Team
Philip Hindes
Sprint-Team
Keirin Callum Skinner
The Rigmar Racers
Matthew Crampton
Sprint-Team
Lewis Oliva
Team USN
Team sprint Philip Hindes
Jason Kenny
Callum Skinner

rep. north West
44.132 Jack Payne
Matt Rotherham
Thomas Rotherham
Sportcity Velo
47.223 Peter Mitchell
Ryan Owens
Thomas Scammell
Performance Cycle Coaching
46.84
Individual Pursuit Andrew Tennant
Madison-Genesis
ct in 3:50.841 Steven Burke
HARIBO Beacon CT
Jon Dibben
100% Me
4:26.990
Team pursuit[1] Germain Burton
Christopher Latham
Christopher Lawless
Oliver Wood
100% Me
4:09.120
caught opp.
Jonathan Mould
Samuel Williams
Adam Blythe
Russell Downing
Sam Harrison
NFTO
caught Alistair Rutherford
Philip Trodden
Finlay Young
Jack Barratt
Ryan Fenwick
Rigmar Racers
4:38.457
Points race Mark Stewart
Spokes RT
22 pts Mark Christian
Team Raleigh
18 pts Jonathan Mould
NFTO
16 pts
Scratch race Oliver Wood
100% ME
Zachery May
Metaltek KUOTA RT
Christopher Latham
100% ME

Women's Events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's Events
500m time trial[2] Jessica Varnish
Team V-Sprint Racing
34.419 Victoria Williamson
VC Norwich
34.897 Katy Marchant
Unattached
35.012
Sprint Jessica Varnish
Team V-Sprint Racing
2-0
12.034
12.153
Katy Marchant
Unattached
Victoria Williamson
VC Norwich
2-0
13.077
11.847
Keirin[3] Jessica Varnish
Team V-Sprint Racing
Dannielle Khan
Solihull CC
Katy Marchant
Unattached
Team sprint Dannielle Khan
Jessica Varnish
rep. West Midlands
33.969 Katy Marchant
Victoria Williamson
rep. North West
34.142 Rachel James
Helen Scott
rep. North West
34.998
Individual Pursuit Katie Archibald
Pearl Izumi
3:34.869 Laura Trott
Wiggle Honda
3:37.294 Joanna Rowsell
Wiggle Honda
3:36.424
Team pursuit[4] Elinor Barker
Laura Trott
Dani King
Joanna Rowsell
Wiggle Honda
4.27.324
Ciara Horne
Anna Turvey
Sarah Storey
Pearl Izumi
4.33.657 Jessica Hill
Madeline Moore
Rachel Murray
Harriet Whewell
VC St Raphael
caught opp.
Points race[5] Sarah Storey
Pearl Izumi
58 pts Elinor Barker
Wiggle Honda
35 pts Laura Trott
Wiggle Honda
30 pts
Scratch race Laura Trott
Wiggle Honda
Emily Kay
Team USN
Danielle King
Wiggle Honda

Para-cycling Events

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A series of para-cycling national championships are also held over combined categories using a points system.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Para-cycling Events
BVI Mixed Gender 1000m [6] Sophie Thornhill
Performance Cycle Coaching
Rachel James (p)
Abergavenny RC
F.T. 1.01.225
A.T. 1.09.804
Neil Fachie
Peter Mitchell (p)
Performance Cycle Coaching
F.T. 1.01.953
A.T. 1.01.953
Laura Cluxton
Rock And Road Cycles
Louise Haston (p)
City of Edinburgh RC
F.T. 1.04.933
A.T. 1.14.032
C1-5 Mixed Gender Sprint Time Trial[7] Lauren Booth
Newport Youth Velo CC
F.T. 1.06.784
A. T. 40.654
over 500m
Jonathan Gildea
Seamons CC
F.T. 1.09.835
A.T. 1.09.835
over 1000m
Jaco van Gass
Team Battle Back
F.T. 1.12.085
A.T. 1.13.131
over 1000m
BVI Mixed Gender Para Pursuit[8] Lora Turnham
Corrine Hall

Matrix Fitness - Vulpine
F.T. 4.17.119
A.T. 3.39.860
over 3000m
Lauryn Therin
Bonito Squadra Corse
Rhiannon Henry
Abergavenny RC
F.T. 4.28.122
A.T. 3.49.269
over 3000m
Steve Bate
Adam Duggleby
Wheelbase Altura MGD
F.T. 4.30.313
A.T. 4.30.313
over 4000m
C1-5 Mixed Gender Para Pursuit[9] Jonathan Gildea
Seamons CC
F.T. 4.49.589
A.T. 4.49.589
over 4000m
Jaco van Gass
Team Battle Back
F.T. 5.00.798
A.T. 5.05.162
over 4000m
Louis Rolfe
Cambridge CC
F.T. 5.02.433
A.T. 4.13.464
over 3000m
BVI Mixed Gender 200m flying lap Sophie Thornhill
Performance Cycle Coaching
Rachel James (p)
Abergavenny RC
F.T. 9.822
A.T. 11.198
Neil Fachie
Peter Mitchell (p)
Performance Cycle Coaching
F.T. 10.149
A.T. 10.149
Laura Cluxton
Rock And Road Cycles
Louise Haston (p)
City of Edinburgh RC
F.T. 10.394
A.T. 11.850
C1-5 Mixed Gender 200m flying lap Jaco van Gass
Team Battle Back
F.T. 12.314
A.T. 12.493
Lauren Booth
Newport Youth Velo CC
F.T. 12.485
A. T. 14.440
Matthew Hamilton
Lee Valley Youth CC
F.T. 12.666
A.T. 12.666

A.T. = Actual Time F.T. = Factored time

References

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