Katie Prankerd
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name |
Catherine Rachel Prankerd (née Curtis) |
| Born |
1 November 1988 Cardiff, Wales |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] |
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Podium Ambition Pro Cycling |
| Discipline | Road and track |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Endurance |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| Maindy Flyers | |
| Cardiff Ajax | |
| 2007 | Team Global Racing |
| 2008 | Team Halfords Bikehut |
| 2009 | Vision1 Racing |
| 2010–2013 | Cardiff Jif |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2014 | Starley Primal[2] |
| 2016 | Podium Ambition Pro Cycling |
| Major wins | |
 British Champion Junior x2 Welsh Champion | |
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Infobox last updated on 2 August 2016 | |
Catherine Rachel "Katie" Prankerd (née Curtis; born 1 November 1988) is a Welsh road and track cyclist and a member of the Podium Ambition Pro Cycling squad.
Born in Cardiff,[3] Prankerd began competing at a young age with the Maindy Flyers children's cycle club before joining Cardiff Ajax. Prankerd set the record for the 5 km Tandem Standing Start event on the track along with Alex Greenfield, with a time of 7 minutes 4.424 seconds. The record was set in Newport Velodrome on 10 June 2004.[4] They also hold the 10 km Tandem Standing Start event on the track, with a time of 13 minutes 10.421 seconds. The record was set in Newport Velodrome on 16 May 2006. In 2008 Prankerd rode with Team Halfords Bikehut before moving to Vision1 Racing in 2009.
Prankerd suffered a setback to her cycling career when she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Subsequently she took up a coaching role at the Wales National Velodrome in Newport and teamed up with partially sighted cyclist Nia Knight with a view to competing in the tandem event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[5] Prankerd subsequently rode solo, representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games in the scratch race, where she finished 7th.[6][1]
Palmarès
Track
- 2004
- 4th 500m, TT Commonwealth Youth Games
- 7th Points Race, Commonwealth Youth Games
- 2005
- 1st Scratch Race, British National Track Championships (Junior)
- 2nd Points Race, British National Track Championships (Junior)
- 3rd Sprint, British National Track Championships (Junior)
- 2006
- 1st Points Race, British National Track Championships (Junior)
- 2nd Scratch Race, British National Track Championships (Junior)
- 2nd Scratch Race, British National Track Championships (Senior)
- 2007
- 1st WCRA 'Derny Paced' Championships
- 3rd British National Derny Championships
- 8th Scratch Race, UCI Track World Championships
- 2013
- Newport International Cup
- 9th Tandem B Road Race, UCI Paracycling World Cup Round 5, Matane, Canada (with Nia Knight)[8]
- 2014
- 7th Scratch Race, Commonwealth Games[9]
Road
- 2007
- 1st Welsh National Road Race Championships
- 3rd British National Circuit Race Championships
- 2008 (Team Halfords Bikehut)
- 2013
- 2nd British National Paracycling Road Circuit Championships (with Nia Knight)[10]
- 2014
- 1st Newport Nocturne[11]
- 5th Milk Race[12]
- 8th Cheshire Classic[13]
- 2015
- 3rd Tour de Yorkshire[14]
- 3rd Milk Race[15]
- 5th Cheshire Classic[16]
References
- 1 2 3 "Katie Curtis: Biography". Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
- ↑ Curtis, Katie (22 March 2014). "Thank you @cardiffjif for all...". Twitter. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ "Profile". British Cycling.
- ↑ "A New Record".
- ↑ Baker, Gary (22 September 2013). "Knight and Curtis come together to form the perfect partnership". Welsh Sports Association. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games 2014: Olympic champion Geraint Thomas and world sprint star Becky James head up Welsh cycling team for Glasgow". Wales Online. 2014-07-09.
- 1 2 "Newport International Cup (C1 – Paracycling)". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ "UCI Paracycling World Cup #5 – Matane". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ Penman, Andrew (26 July 2014). "Bronze for Welsh cyclist Elinor Barker". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ↑ "BC National Paracycling Road Circuit Championships". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ "The Newport Nocturne". British Cycling. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- ↑ "The Milk Race 2014". British Cycling. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ↑ Wood, Andy (27 April 2014). "2014 Cheshire Classic Results". cheshireclassic.co.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ Abraham, Richard (2 May 2015). "Louise Mahé wins Tour de Yorkshire women's race". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ↑ "The Milk Race". British Cycling. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- ↑ Williams, Huw (26 April 2015). "Victory for Sarah Storey in Women's Road Series". British Cycling. Retrieved 2 May 2015.