Katie Amanda Colclough (born 20 January 1990 ) is a retired

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and

track cyclist 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 ...

from Frieston near

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, and a former member of

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's Olympic Development Squad. Colclough began cycling competitively in 2004, the following year she was selected to ride for

's Talent Team. She joined the Olympic Development Programme in 2006. In 2008-2009 Colclough rode road races with

Team Halfords Bikehut Team Halfords Bikehut was a 2008 UCI elite women's cycling team based in the United Kingdom. The team was formed in January 2008 with Dave Brailsford, performance director of British Cycling, the general manager. It had been a pro/national team ...

. In 2011, she signed with the professional team (now known as ). Colclough was part of the Specialized–lululemon squad which won the

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at the

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, where she announced that she would be retiring from the sport after the road race.

Palmarès

Source: ;2007 :2nd Olveston National Series Road Race ;2008 – Team Halfords Bikehut 2008 season :1st UEC Champion Jersey

Team pursuit, UEC European U23 Track Championships :1st Points Race,

British National Track Championships The British National Track Championships are held annually and organised by British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation). The main events are various track cycling disciplines for elite athletes to determine the British national cha ...

(Junior) :2nd Points Race,

(Senior) :2nd Pursuit,

(Junior) :1st Team pursuit, Round 1, 2008–09 Track World Cup, Manchester :3rd Points race, Round 1, 2008–09 Track World Cup, Manchester :1st Team pursuit, Round 2, 2008–09 Track World Cup, Melbourne ;2009 :1st Team pursuit, Round 5, 2008–09 Track World Cup, Copenhagen :2nd Points race, Round 5, 2008–09 Track World Cup, Copenhagen :2nd

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Under 23 :2nd

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, road race, Under 23 :2nd, Team pursuit, 2009–2010 Track World Cup, Melbourne ;2010 :1st UEC Champion Jersey

Team pursuit,

2010 European Track Championships The 2010 European Track Championships were the inaugural elite European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the BGŻ Arena in Pruszków, Poland, between 5 and 7 November. All ten Olympic events ( sprint, team sprint, keirin, ...

;2011 – HTC–Highroad 2011 season :UEC European U23 Track Championships ::1st UEC Champion Jersey

Team Pursuit (with Laura Trott and

Dani King Danielle 'Dani' Rowe MBE (née King; born 21 November 1990) is a British former road and track cyclist. She retired from cycling in December 2018. A team pursuit gold medallist from the London Olympics in 2012, Rowe also won three consecutive ...

) ::2nd Points Race ;2012 – Team Specialized–lululemon 2012 season :1st Stage 4,

Gracia–Orlová Gracia–Orlová is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. It was created in 1987. Since 2004, it starts in Dětmarovice. A mountain stage i ...

:1st

Under 23 ;2013 – Specialized–lululemon 2013 season :1st

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Team Time Trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...

(together with

Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time ...

Carmen Small Carmen Small (born April 22, 1980) is an American former racing cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Outside of cycling, Small was a founding member of The Cyclists' Alliance and vice director for 201 ...

, Evelyn Stevens,

Lisa Brennauer Lisa Brennauer (born 8 June 1988) is a German former Cycle sport, racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2022, for six different teams. On the track, Brennauer won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the Cycling at th ...

and

Trixi Worrack Beatrix "Trixi" Worrack (born 28 September 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2021. The winner of the 2003 German National Road Race Championships, Worrack's career highlights in ...

) :3rd British National Time Trial Championships

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colclough, Katie 1990 births Living people English track cyclists Sportspeople from Grantham English female cyclists Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games UCI Road World Champions (women) Commonwealth Games competitors for England