Kian Emadi
 Emadi at the 2018 Track Cycling World Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 July 1992 Stoke-on-Trent, England |
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Track cycling |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Endurance Sprinter (formerly) |
| Professional team | |
| 2012–present | Sky Track Cycling |
| Major wins | |
Medal record | |
Kian Emadi-Coffin (born 29 July 1992) is a former[1] British track cyclist.[2] He has represented Great Britain and England at international level, and is a three-time British National Track champion. Originally a sprinter, he transferred following injury to the endurance squad, and in 2018 won a gold medal as part of the team pursuit squad for Great Britain at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Career
[edit]Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Emadi-Coffin started cycling competitively at the age of 13, and raced in many disciplines (track, road and cyclo-cross), before concentrating on the sprint disciplines of track racing. Emadi moved to Manchester at the age of 18 as a member of the British Cycling Podium Programme.[3]
He represented Great Britain at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[4] He won his first senior medal, a silver in the team sprint, at the latter event.
After suffering a back injury in September 2014, which limited the amount of gym work he could do to attempt to secure a place in the British team sprint squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Emadi-Coffin switched to the endurance squad.[5]
In December 2022, following the recurrence of a back injury, Emadi-Coffin stepped away from the British team, and retired as a professional cyclist shortly afterwards.[6]
Personal life
[edit]Emadi-Coffin, born to an American academic mother and an Iranian father, attended St Peter's Church of England High School and then moved to St Joseph's College Sixth Form in Stoke to study for A-levels.
Major results
[edit]Track
[edit]- 2009
- National Junior Championships
- 1st
Sprint
- 1st
- 3rd Keirin
- 1st
- Apeldoorn Interland
- 1st Team sprint
- 2nd Sprint
- 2nd Elimination
- 3rd Keirin
- 2010
- National Junior Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 2nd Sprint
- 1st
- 2011
- 3rd Team sprint, National Championships
- Revolution 33 – 2nd Sprint, Revolution Series
- 2012
- 1st
- 2nd Kilo, UCI World Cup, Cali
- 2nd Sprint omnium, Six Days of Bremen
- 2013
- National Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Team sprint, Cottbuser Nächte
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Team sprint, Aguascalientes
- 3rd Team sprint, Manchester
- Dutch Summer Trophy, Alkmaar
- 2nd Kilo
- 3rd Sprint
- 2014
- 2nd
Team sprint, Commonwealth Games
- 2016
- UCI World Cup
- 1st Team pursuit, Glasgow
- 3rd Team pursuit, Hong Kong
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2017
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Manchester
- 2018
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 2nd
- 2019
- 2nd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 2021
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
References
[edit]- ^ "Kian Emadi steps away from the Great Britain Cycling Team, after 12 years on the programme". British Cycling. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Kian Emadi". Britishcycling.org.uk. 29 July 1992. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ "Kian Emadi biography". Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ^ Cycling. "UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2013: Kian Emadi aiming to fire Britain to track cycling glory in Minsk". Telegraph. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ^ Smith, Pete (23 January 2016). "Cycling: Kian Emadi back on track after switch from sprint to endurance". The Sentinel (Staffordshire). Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ "Kian Emadi steps away from the Great Britain Cycling Team, after 12 years on the programme". British Cycling. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
External links
[edit]- Kian Emadi at UCI
- Kian Emadi at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Kian Emadi at ProCyclingStats
- Kian Emadi at Cycling Quotient
- Kian Emadi at CycleBase
- English male cyclists
- British male cyclists
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Stoke-on-Trent
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- English people of Iranian descent
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- English track cyclists
- British track cyclists
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- English people of American descent
- Sportspeople of Iranian descent
- 21st-century English sportsmen