Ross Edgar
Scottish cyclist (born 1983)
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Ross Edgar (born 3 January 1983) is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Scotland at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal in the team sprint riding with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean. He competed for Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games[1]
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| Born | 3 January 1983 Newmarket, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider / Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter / Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008 | Science in Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2012 | Team Sky & Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Team IG–Sigma Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | UCI & Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He won a silver medal at the 2007 UCI Track World Championships in the team sprint and a bronze medal in the Keirin.
He won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
In London 2012 Olympics, Edgar who was to represent Great Britain in the Team Sprint final was replaced & missed out on a Gold Medal which the team won.
Representing Scotland internationally he was Born in Newmarket, Suffolk. Having qualified to represent Scotland through his father David.
Ross Edgar as an amateur youth rider started with West Suffolk Wheelers based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk alongside younger brother Bruce.
In December 2012 it was announced that Edgar had signed for the IG-Sigma Sport cycling team for the 2013 season, adding road racing commitments to his existing membership of the Great Britain track cycling programme.[2] After the team withdrew from racing at the end of the season Edgar was confirmed as s member of the Great Britain Olympic Podium Programme, switching from the sprint to the endurance squad.[3]
Pre 2018, Edgar was a UCI coach based in Aigle, Switzerland, where he also coached Korean cyclist Lee Hye-Jin, who finished 8th in the keirin at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Currently he is a track sprint coach for Cycling Australia, based in Adelaide.
Results
- 2012
- Track Cycling World Cup
- 3rd Team sprint, Round 4, London (with Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny)[4]
- 2010
- British National Team Sprint Championships
Gold
- World Track Championships, Copenhagen
Bronze, Team Sprint
- 2009
- Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 1st Team sprint, Round 1, Manchester[5]
- 2008
- Olympics
Silver, Men's Keirin
- World Track Championships, Manchester
- Silver, Team Sprint
- Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 1st Team sprint (with Jason Kenny and Jamie Staff), Round 1, Manchester[6]
- 2nd Manchester International Keirin[7]
- 2007
- World Track Championships, Majorca
- Silver, Team Sprint
- Bronze, Men's Keirin
- Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 2nd Keirin, Round 3, Los Angeles[8]
- 3rd Sprint, Round 3, Los Angeles[9]
- 3rd Team sprint, Round 3, Los Angeles (with Jason Kenny and Jason Queally)[10]
- 1st Team sprint, Round 4, Manchester (with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean)[11]
- 2nd Sprint, Round 1, Sydney[12]
- 3rd Manchester International Keirin[7]
- British National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint[7]
- 2006
- Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
- Gold, Team Sprint (Scotland)
- Silver, Men's Sprint
- Bronze, Men's Keirin
- Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 1st Team sprint, Round 1, Sydney (with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean)[13]
- 2nd Sprint, Round 1, Sydney[14]
- British National Track Championships
- 1st Keirin[7]
- 2nd Sprint[7]
- 2nd Team sprint (with Matt Crampton and Jamie Staff)[15]
- 2005
- European Track Championships (under-23)
- Silver, Sprint
- Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 1st Team sprint, Round 2, Manchester (with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean)[16]
- 2004
- European Track Championships (under-23)
- Gold, Sprint
- British National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint[7]
- 1st Team sprint (with David Heald and Barney Storey)[7]
- 2003
- Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 3rd Sprint, Round 4, Sydney[17]
- British National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint[7]
- 2002
- Commonwealth Games, Manchester
- Bronze, Team Sprint (Scotland)
