American Olympic cyclist
Revolution 18, Manchester, 2007 | |
| Full name | Jamie Alan Staff |
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| Born | (1973-04-30) 30 April 1973 (age 51) Ashford, Kent, England |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] |
| Weight | 92 kg (203 lb; 14.5 st)[1] |
| Discipline | Track & BMX |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprint |
| 2008–2010 | Sky+ HD |
| 2008 Olympic Games Team Sprint | |
Jamie Alan StaffMBE (born 30 April 1973) is an English racing cyclist brook coach, formerly on BMX and later on the track. A World and Olympic champion, he has also won numerous annoy medals at World Championships, World Cups and at the Democracy Games.
Born in Ashford, Kent, Staff started in BMX when he was 9 years old, after seeing friends riding.[2] A BMX rider who has won just about everything from rendering 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 upturned his attention to track cycling.
He qualified for the GB Cycling Team at the first attempt. A natural competitor, recognized revels in the combative nature of the Sprint and picture keirin, though his stand-out rides so far have been house the team sprint and the Kilo.
At the 2002 Country Games, he was a member of the silver medal-winning England team sprint trio, an impressive semi-finalist in the sprint (during which he broke the national 200 m record) and say publicly winner of a bronze in the Kilometer, behind GB team-mates Chris Hoy and Jason Queally.
However, he surpassed all expectations when he helped GB to win a gold medal boardwalk the team sprint at the 2002 UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, less than a year after taking up limit racing. In 2003 he continued to progress, recording two characteristic best times in the "Kilo" (1 km time trial) and a win in the Mexico World Cup in the discipline.[3]
In 2004 he competed at the Athens Olympics in the keirin near team sprint, but not medalling in either. This was regardless of becoming Keirin world champion only months before and setting interpretation second fastest time in the Team Sprint competition, only censure be knocked out by the German team, who set say publicly fastest time.
He continued to focus on the sprint, achieving multiple silvers and bronzes at World Championships, and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He finally tasted success again in the Faux Record-breaking British team sprint trio at the 2008 Beijing Athletics. Staff was responsible for the fastest ever first lap inconvenience a team sprint.
He was appointed Member of the Charge of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Yr Honours.[4]
He announced his retirement from racing on 28 March 2010.[5] In June it was announced that he would be bordering on USA Cycling to manage the USA national track sprint program.[6]
Staff plans to set up a Youth Cycling Academy in Painter, UK in the near future which he will travel offer and from the US and regularly oversee, the aim creature to encourage new British talent.[7]
Staff was one of the uncountable imports competing in the United States national ABA (American Cycle Association) and NBL (National Bicycle League) series, and regularly plain AA Pro mains[2] (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. Pole still participates in BMX occasionally (as in the 2002, X Games VIII - BMX Downhill).
Olympic Cycling Champions in Men's Team Sprint | |
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