David Daniell (born 23 December 1989 in

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) is an English competitive

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, specialising in track sprinting. A member of the British Cycling Olympic Academy, he is a Junior World Team Sprint Champion for the second year running. Daniell began cycling after being spotted at his school in

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's Go-Ride scheme. He was nominated for

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in 2006 and was awarded Junior Sport's Personality of the Year at the 11th annual '' Evening Gazette'' Sports Awards 2007. His first victory in a

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event was in October 2008, when he beat Yevhen Bolibrukh of

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. He took the victory in the kilo event with a time of 1:01.996, a clear margin of over a second over the rest of the field. After winning a silver medal in the

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at the

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, Daniell underwent knee surgery that kept him out of training for 15 weeks. Subsequently, he badly twisted his leg while riding on the road in autumn 2012, resulting in him losing 40 percent of the cartilage in his joint. He was dropped from the British team before Christmas 2012 as he was not performing at the same level as before his injury. In 2013, he moved from

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, taking up a part-time position as a coach at the

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. He has said that he aimed to qualify for the English team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in

, but that he hoped to represent

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at the 2018 Commonwealth Games as he will have been resident in the country long enough.

Palmarès

;2005 :

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::2nd

Sprint (U16) ::5th 500m TT (U16) ;2006 :

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::1st

Team Sprint (with

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& Christian Lyte) ::23rd 1km time trial :

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::1st

1km time trial, Junior ::5th Team Sprint, Junior :

::2nd

3km Pursuit (Junior) ::2nd Silver medal blank

Keirin (Junior) ::3rd Bronze medal blank

1km time trial (Junior) ::7th Sprint (Junior) ::17th Team Sprint (with

& Dave Le Grys) ;2007 :1st 1km time trial, 2008–2009 UCI Track World Cup, Round 1, Manchester :

::1st

Sprint, Junior ::2nd Silver medal blank

Team Sprint, Junior ::11th Keirin, Junior :

::1st

Sprint (Junior) ::1st MaillotReinoUnido

1km time trial (Junior) ::2nd Silver medal blank

Keirin (Junior) :

::2nd

Keirin ::5th Kilo ::8th Team Sprint ;2009 :2nd Silver medal blank

Under-23 Team Sprint,

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::2nd 1km time trial ::32nd Team Sprint :12th 1km time trial,

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;2010 :2nd Silver medal blank

Keirin,

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:7th Kilo,

;2011 :

::2nd

Keirin ::2nd Silver medal blank

Sprint ::2nd Silver medal blank

Team Sprint

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daniell, David English track cyclists Cyclists from Yorkshire Sportspeople from Middlesbrough 1989 births Living people Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England English male cyclists