Elinor Barker

Elinor Barker

Barker at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships
Personal information
Full name	Elinor Jane Barker
Born	(1994-09-07) 7 September 1994 Cardiff, Wales
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb; 8.8 st)
Team information
Current team	Team USN / Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
Discipline	Track & Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Pursuit/Time trial
Amateur teams
2005–2007	Maindy Flyers
2008	Kidney Wales For Escentual
2009–2011	Cardiff Ajax
2012	Scott Contessa Epic RT
Professional teams
2013–2014	Wiggle-Honda
2015–	Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
Medal record Representing Great Britain World Championships 2013 Minsk Team Pursuit 2014 Cali Team Pursuit 2015 Yvelines Team Pursuit 2016 London Team pursuit European Championships 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit Representing Wales Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Points race 2014 Glasgow Scratch race

Elinor Jane Barker (born 7 September 1994) is a Welsh racing cyclist, who currently rides on the track for Great Britain and the Welsh Cycling backed Team USN, and on the road for

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On the road, Barker was the 2012 junior world time trial champion.

Early life

Elinor Barker from Heath, Cardiff, is the daughter of Graham Barker, deputy headteacher at St Julian's Comprehensive School in Newport. She has an older brother, Joe, and a sister, Megan, three years her junior and also a successful racing cyclist. She attended Llanishen High School.

Career

Barker took up cycling with the Maindy Flyers at the age of 10, as a way of getting out of swimming classes. She was recruited into British Cycling's Olympic Development Academy, but remained based in Wales until she completed her A-levels in 2013, after which she moved to Manchester to train full time at Manchester Velodrome.

She became the Junior Time Trial world champion in 2012, completing the 15.6 km course in Valkenburg, Netherlands in 22 minutes and 26.29 seconds, beating Cecille Ludvig of Denmark by 35.87 seconds. Subsequently Barker was named Carwyn James Junior Sportswoman of the Year at the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year awards in 2012.

In 2013, she became a senior world champion for the first time as a member of the team pursuit squad at the UCI Track World Championships.

Barker represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014, winning silver and bronze medals.

In September 2014 it was announced that Barker would follow in the footsteps of team-mate Laura Trott and join the Matrix Fitness-Vulpine team for 2015.

Palmarès

Source:

2008

3rd Omnium British National Track Championships – Under 14

2010

2nd Individual pursuit British National Track Championships – Under 16

3rd points race British National Track Championships – Junior

3rd points race British National Track Championships – Under 16

3rd Scratch race British National Track Championships – Under 16

2011

1st Individual pursuit British National Track Championships – Junior

1st Stratford-upon-Avon Team Series

1st stage 1 Essex Giro

Individual pursuit European Track Championships – Junior

Time trial UCI Road World Championships – Junior

2nd Scratch race British National Track Championships – Junior

3rd Points race British National Track Championships – Junior

2012

1st Time trial UCI Road World Championships – Junior

Individual pursuit European Track Championships – Junior

Team pursuit European Track Championships – Junior

with Amy Roberts & Lucy Garner

1st Jubilee Road Race

1st Duncan Murray Wines Road Race

2nd Hillingdon Grand Prix

2nd overall 2 Days of Bedford

1st stage 4

Omnium UCI Track World Championships – Junior

Individual pursuit UCI Track World Championships – Junior

Team pursuit UCI Track World Championships – Junior

with Hayley Jones & Amy Roberts

2nd Team pursuit 2012–2013 Track World Cup, Cali

with Ciara Horne & Amy Roberts

2013

1st Team pursuit UCI Track World Championships

with Dani King & Laura Trott

Team pursuit European Track Championships

1st Otley Grand Prix

Individual pursuit UCI Track World Championships – Under-23

Points race UCI Track World Championships – Under-23

3rd Team pursuit 2012–2013 Track World Cup, Aguascalientes

with Ciara Horne & Amy Roberts

2014

UCI Track Cycling World Championships

1st Team pursuit

2014 Commonwealth Games

Points race

Scratch race

7th Individual pursuit

7th Road time trial

2015

1st Team pursuit European Track Championships

UCI Track Cycling World Championships

2nd Team pursuit

External links

• Elinor Barker at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Elinor Barker on Twitter