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| updated = 5 November 2015 }} Edward "Ed" Clancy MBE (born Edward Clancy, 12 March 1985) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer who rides for the team.〔(Edward Clancy )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Team Halfords bikehut website )〕 On the track his specialist discipline is the team pursuit, in which he is the reigning Olympic and European champion. In the London 2012 Olympics, he also participated in the Omnium, claiming a bronze medal. In total, Clancy is a four-time world champion (in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2012) and four-time European champion (in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014) in Team Pursuit; he has also won World (2010) and European (2011) titles at Omnium. On the road, he won the first stage of the 2005 Tour of Berlin. ==Career== Clancy has featured in a number of world record team pursuits. On 17 August 2008, Clancy was a member of the Olympic team pursuit squad which broke the world record in the heats with 3:55:202, beating Russia to the ride-off for silver and gold.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GB pursuit team set world record )〕 The next day, on their way to winning the gold medal, the British team broke their own world record in 3:53:314, beating Denmark by 6.7 seconds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GB storm to gold in team pursuit )〕 Clancy was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. On 4 April 2012, Clancy was part of the Great Britain team which set a new world record of 3:53.295 in winning the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2012 World Track Cycling Championships in Melbourne.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GB pursuit team win gold in new world record )〕 After the 2012 Olympic Games, where he set a time of 1:00.981 in the Omnium Kilo Time Trial, British Cycling announced that Clancy would replace Sir Chris Hoy in the Great Britain team for the team sprint event, where he rode in the Man 3 position. Despite finishing 2nd in the Glasgow round of the world cup, Clancy returned to the endurance team for the 2013 world championships. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ed Clancy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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