Charlie Tanfield
British cyclist (born 1996)
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Charles Tanfield (born 17 November 1996) is a British racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Continental team Saint Piran and the Great Britain national track cycling team.
Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England[1]
He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris winning the silver medal in the Team pursuit. He also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the team pursuit.[5]
Tanfield was the 2018 Commonwealth Games individual pursuit champion, the 2018 World Championships team pursuit world champion and 2024 UEC European Track Championships team pursuit champion.
Early life
Tanfield grew up in Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.[6] He attended Stokesley School.[7]
Career
He rode in the men's team pursuit event at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, winning the gold medal.[8][9] Tanfield won silver in the team pursuit and gold in the individual pursuit at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where he set of time of 4:11.455,[10] the third fastest individual pursuit time in history. Tanfield went on to claim a second silver in the team pursuit at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[11]
Tanfield won two more national titles at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships bringing his total to five at the time. He won the individual pursuit for the second time and the team pursuit for the third time.[12]
He went on to win a silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit, his second Olympic Games.
Personal life
His brother Harry Tanfield, who is two years older than him, is also a cyclist and a silver medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games road time trial.[13]
Major results
Road
- 2017
- 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
- 5th Duo Normand (with Harry Tanfield)
- 2018
- 1st
Time trial, National Under-23 Championships - 8th Time trial, Commonwealth Games
- 2021
- 1st Castle Douglas, Tour Series
- 2023
- 4th Time trial, National Championships
Track
- 2017
- National Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2018
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships - Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Individual pursuit - 2nd
Team pursuit
- 1st
- UCI World Cup, Minsk
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit
- National Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UEC European Championships - 2019
- 1st Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships - 3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2021
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships - 3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2022
- UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 3rd Individual pursuit
- 2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
- 2nd Individual pursuit, National Championships
- 3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2023
- National Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2nd
Team pursuit, UEC European Championships - 3rd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Jakarta
- 2024
- UEC European Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 2nd Individual pursuit
- 1st
- UCI Nations Cup
- 2nd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games - 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 2026
- National Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 2nd Points race
- 3rd Elimination
- 1st
