Jamie Alan Staff

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(born 30 April 1973) is an English

racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing ...

and coach, formerly on BMX and later on

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and

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champion, he has also won numerous other medals at World Championships, World Cups and at the Commonwealth Games.

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Born in

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, Staff first got started in BMX when he was 9 years old, after seeing friends riding.BMX Ultra interview
. Bmxultra.com (2 April 2009). Retrieved on 2 August 20117. A BMX rider who has won just about everything from the World Championships downwards, he decided at the end of 2001 that he wanted to win an Olympic medal. As BMX was not an Olympic sport at the time, he turned his attention to

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 ...

. He qualified for the GB Cycling Team at the first attempt. A natural competitor, he revels in the combative nature of the

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and the

keirin – literally "racing cycle" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gamblin ...

, though his stand-out rides so far have been in the

team sprint The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. The current men's ...

and the

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. At the

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, he was a member of the silver medal winning England

trio, an impressive semi-finalist in the sprint (during which he broke the national 200 m record) and the winner of a bronze in the Kilometer, behind GB team-mates

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and

Jason Queally Jason Paul Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Early years Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally spent his childhood in Caton, a village near Lancaster. He att ...

. However, he surpassed all expectations when he helped GB to win a gold medal in the team sprint at the 2002

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in Copenhagen, less than a year after taking up track racing. In 2003 he continued to progress, recording two personal best times in the "Kilo" (1 km time trial) and a win in the

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World Cup in the discipline.Olympics
In 2004 he competed at the Athens Olympics in the

and

, but not medalling in either. This was despite becoming Keirin world champion only months before and setting the second fastest time in the Team Sprint competition, only to be knocked out by the German team, who set the fastest time. He continued to focus on the sprint, achieving multiple silvers and bronzes at World Championships, and the

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. He finally tasted success again in the World Record-breaking British team sprint trio at the

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

. Staff was responsible for the fastest ever first lap in a team sprint. He was appointed

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(MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. He announced his retirement from racing on 28 March 2010. In June it was announced that he would be joining

USA Cycling USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States. It covers the disciplines of road, track, mountain bike, cyclo-cross, and BMX across all ages and ability leve ...

to manage the USA national track sprint program. Staff plans to set up a Youth Cycling Academy in

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, UK in the near future which he will travel to and from the US and regularly oversee, the aim being to encourage new British talent.Interview With Jamie Staff MBE « Cycling Shorts
Cyclingshorts.uk.com (15 July 2011). Retrieved 27 August 2011.

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Staff was one of the many imports competing in the United States national ABA (American Bicycle Association) and NBL (National Bicycle League) series, and regularly made AA Pro mains (winning NBL Pro Nat.#1 (Elite) Men (AA) in 2001), (winning the World BMX title in 1996) until 2001 when he decided to concentrate on track cycling. Staff still participates in BMX occasionally (as in the 2002, X Games VIII - BMX Downhill).

Major results

*1996 World BMX Champion *2002 Bronze Kilo (England), Commonwealth Games *2002 Silver Team Sprint (England), Commonwealth Games *2002 Gold Team Sprint, World Championships *2003 Silver Sprint, National Championships *2003 Silver Sprint, World Cup, Mexico *2003 Gold Kilometre, World Cup, Mexico *2003 Gold Team Sprint, World Cup, South Africa *2004 Gold Keirin,

, Melbourne *2005 Gold Team Sprint, World Championships *2004 Bronze Team Sprint, World Championships, Melbourne *2006 Silver Team Sprint, Commonwealth Games, MelbourneBBC Sport (19 March 2006)
BBC News (19 March 2006). Retrieved 27 August 2011. *2006 Silver Team Sprint UCI Track World Championship Team Sprint *2007 Bronze UCI Track World Championship

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*2008 Silver

Team Sprint *2008 Gold Team Sprint, Olympic Games, Beijing *2009 Silver

Team Sprint

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Staff, Jamie BMX riders English male cyclists English Olympic medallists People from Ashford, Kent 1973 births Living people Olympic cyclists of Great Britain Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Members of the Order of the British Empire Olympic medalists in cycling UCI BMX World Champions (elite men) Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics English cycling coaches UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling English track cyclists

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