Peter Mitchell (born 12 January 1990 in London, England) is an English
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 ...
, specialising in the individual and team
sprints
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. In 2009, he was named in the
Team Sky+ HD track cycling team alongside names such as
Chris Hoy
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Hoy is eleven-times a wor ...
and
Victoria Pendelton.
In November 2012 it was announced that Mitchell was joining the British
paralympic
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cycling squad as a pilot for the tandem events. Mitchell teamed up with Paralympic gold medallist and multiple world champion
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
for the
2013 British National Track Championships, where they were second in both the kilo time trial and the 200-metre flying start time trial for mixed blind/visually impaired competitors. In addition he scored a solo second place in the sprint, being defeated in the final by
Jason Kenny
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.
Fachie and Mitchell continued their partnership for the 2014
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
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The Championships were earlier administered by t ...
in
Aguascalientes
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, Mexico. The pair won the gold medal in the tandem
1km time trial, and broke the world record set by Fachie and
Barney Storey at the 2012 Paralympics by setting a time of 59.460 seconds, becoming the first tandem pairing to clock a sub-minute time for the kilo time trial. They subsequently won a second gold in the tandem
sprint.
Results
;2007
:1st Team Sprint,
Junior World Track Championships
:3rd Sprint,
Junior World Track Championships
:2nd Sprint,
British National Junior Track Championships
;2008
:2nd Team Sprint,
European Junior Track Championships
:3rd Sprint,
European Junior Track Championships
;2009
:2nd Team Sprint,
European Under 23 Track Championships
:2nd Team Sprint,
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 ...
;2010
:3rd Sprint,
European Under 23 Track Championships
;2011
:2nd Team Sprint,
European Under 23 Track Championships
;2013
:2nd Sprint,
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 ...
:2nd BVI Mixed 1km time trial,
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 ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
:2nd BVI Mixed 200m flying start time trial,
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 ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
;2014
:1st BVI 1km time trial,
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by t ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
:1st BVI Sprint,
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by t ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
:2nd BVI Mixed 1km time trial,
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 ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
:2nd BVI 200m flying start time trial,
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 ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
;2015
:1st Tandem B sprint,
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by t ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
:2nd BVI 200m mixed standing start time trial,
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 ...
(with
Neil Fachie
Neil Michael Fachie (born 12 March 1984) is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a ta ...
)
:2nd BVI 200m flying start time trial,
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 ...
(with
Helen Scott)
:2nd
British National Team Sprint Championships
The British National Team Sprint Championships are held annually as part of the British National Track Championships organized by British Cycling. A women's championship was held for the first time in 2008.
Results Men
Women
See also
* Brit ...
(with Matthew Roper and Thomas Scammell)
References
External links
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English male cyclists
Cyclists from Greater London
Living people
1990 births
People educated at Steyning Grammar School
English track cyclists
Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales
Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
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