The 2015
British National Track Championships were a series of
track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
History
Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...
competitions held from 25–27 September 2015 at the
Manchester Velodrome. They are organised and sanctioned by
British Cycling, and were open to British cyclists.
Competition
Separate competitions will be held for both men and women, and 6 events are also included for
paracyclists
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. Twenty-two gold medals will be awarded over three days and six sessions; the event had previously taken place over 5 days.
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The women's sprint events were dominated by rising star Katy Marchant, as she matched the 4 gold clean sweep of the sprint events achieved by Jessica Varnish in 2014. The women's endurance events were dominated by Laura Trott winning each of the individual endurance races ahead of main rival of the championships Katie Archibald
Katie Archibald, (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 ...
. Archibald's victory in team pursuit being the sole race Trott was unable to win. Such was her dominance that Trott only just missed out on medals in sprint events as well, finishing a very close fourth in the 500 metre time trial.
On the men's side, unpredictable racing was the order of the day. With defending quadruple champion Callum Skinner
Callum Skinner (born 20 August 1992) is a British former track cyclist. He won the silver medal in the individual sprint at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was a member of the British team that won gold in the team sprint.
Early life
Skinner was ...
injured and not competing, the remaining elite sprinters, Jason Kenny, Matt Crampton
Matthew "Matt" Nicholas Crampton (born 23 May 1986) is an English former track cyclist for . He was a member of British Cycling's Olympic Podium Programme, and represented Great Britain at a number of major events. Crampton specialised in track ...
and Lewis Oliva shared the spoil's between themselves, with Kenny combining with Crampton and Philip Hindes
Philip Hindes Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 22 September 1992) is a British Track cycling, track cyclist, specialising in Sprint (cycling), sprints. He holds dual nationality, having been born in Germany to a United Kingdom, British fath ...
to take team sprint honours.
Medal summary
Men's Events
Women's Events
Para-cycling Events
A series of para-cycling national championships are also held over combined categories using a points system.
A.T. = Actual Time
F.T. = Factored time
References
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British National Track Championships