Kian Emadi

Kian Emadi-Coffin
Emadi at the 2018 Track Cycling World Championships
Personal information
Born (1992-07-29) 29 July 1992
Stoke-on-Trent, England
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight84 kg (185 lb)
Team information
DisciplineTrack cycling
RoleRider
Rider typeEndurance
Sprinter (formerly)
Professional team
2012–presentSky Track Cycling
Major wins
Track Team pursuit, World Championships (2018)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Yvelines Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Munich Team pursuit
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Team sprint
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast Team pursuit

Kian Emadi-Coffin (born 29 July 1992) is a former British track cyclist. 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

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.

He represented Great Britain at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. 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.

In December 2022, following the recurrence of a bank injury, Emadi-Coffin stepped away from the British team, and retired as a professional cyclist shortly afterwards.

Personal life

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 Sixth Form School in Stoke to study for A levels.

Major results

Track

2009 National Junior Championships 1st Sprint 1st Kilo 3rd Keirin Apeldoorn Interland 1st Team sprint 2nd Sprint 2nd Elimination 3rd Keirin 2010 National Junior Championships 1st Kilo 1st Keirin 2nd Sprint 2011 3rd Team sprint, National Championships Revolution 33 – 2nd Sprint, Revolution Series 2012 1st Kilo, National Championships 2nd Kilo, UCI World Cup, Cali 2nd Sprint omnium, Six Days of Bremen 2013 National Championships 1st Kilo 1st Team sprint 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 Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games 2019 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships 2021 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

References

  1. ^ "Kian Emadi steps away from the Great Britain Cycling Team, after 12 years on the programme". British Cycling. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Kian Emadi". Britishcycling.org.uk. 29 July 1992. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Kian Emadi biography". Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  4. ^ Cycling. "UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2013: Kian Emadi aiming to fire Britain to track cycling glory in Minsk". Telegraph. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  5. ^ Smith, Pete (23 January 2016). "Cycling: Kian Emadi back on track after switch from sprint to endurance". The Sentinel (Staffordshire). Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Kian Emadi steps away from the Great Britain Cycling Team, after 12 years on the programme". British Cycling. Retrieved 9 August 2023.

External links

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team pursuit
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Riders in italics took part in the qualifying rounds.
British National Men's Track Sprint Champions