Matthew "Matt" Nicholas Crampton (born 23 May 1986) is an English former

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for . He was a member of

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's Olympic Podium Programme, and represented Great Britain at a number of major events. Crampton specialised in track sprinting and competed in the individual sprint, team sprint, keirin and kilo events.

Biography

Born in

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

, Crampton won the junior sprint and keirin events at the 2004

European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...

. Crampton competed at the Youth Commonwealth Games in Bendigo, Australia in 2004, winning a silver medal in the keirin. He went on to take the silver medal as a member of England's Team Sprint squad at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 2007 saw Crampton take the silver medal in the keirin and bronze in the team sprint at the European Track Championships, this time riding in the under 23 category. He won a bronze medal in the individual sprint at the first round of the 2008–2009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics at Manchester on 1 November 2008. He also won the Japanese Keirin Association Race the next day. On 15 November 2008 he competed in the

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21 event in Manchester. He won both events he was entered in, the Sprint and the Keirin. Other riders present were

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and Jamie Staff. He won silver in the men's team sprint at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships with teammates Jamie Staff and

. He also won silver in the same event two years later with Chris Hoy and

, after the French squad were stripped of the world title and the British team were promoted from their original bronze medals. At the

2011 UEC European Track Championships The 2011 European Track Championships was the second edition of the elite European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Omnisport Arena in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, between 21 and 23 October. All ten Olympic events, ( sprint ...

, Crampton won the gold medal in 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 gambling ...

. He won gold in keirin and placed second at team sprint in Aguascalientes at

2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup The 2013–2014 UCI Track Cycling World Cup was a multi race tournament over a track cycling season. It was the twenty-second series of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The series ran from 1 November ...

. In November 2016 Crampton announced his retirement from competition, indicating that he would continue to be involved in the sport as a coach.

Family

He is the older brother of

Jessica Crampton Jessica Crampton (born 1994) is a British female track cyclist. Cycling career Crampton became a three times British champion after successfully defending her Kerin Championship at the 2019 British National Track Championships The 2019 Brit ...

References

External links

Interview by Larry Hickmott, British Cycling, Melbourne, 13 March 2006
1986 births Living people English male cyclists Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Manchester Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games English cycling coaches Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling {{England-cycling-bio-stub