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The 2025 UEC Track Cycling European Championships take place at the Konya Velodrome in Türkiye from 1 - 5 February 2026
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The 2025 UCI Track Cycling World Championships took place at the Peñalolén Velodrome in Santiago, Chile, from 22–26 October 2025.
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Women's Sprint: Hetty Van De Wouw (Netherlands)
Men's Sprint: Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands)
Women's Keirin: Mina Sato (Japan)
Men's Keirin: Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands)
Women's 1 km TT: Hetty Van De Wouw (Netherlands)
Men's 1 km Time Trial: Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands)
Women's Team Sprint: Netherlands
Men's Team Sprint: Netherlands
Women's Team Pursuit: Italy
Men's Team Pursuit: Denmark
Women's Individual Pursuit: Anna Morris (Great Britain)
Men's Individual Pursuit: Josh Charlton (Great Britain)
Women's Scratch: Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands)
Men's Scratch: Moritz Augenstein (Germany)
Women's Points Race: Yareli Acevedo Mendoza (Mexico)
Men's Points Race: Joshua Tarling (Great Britain)
Women's Madison: Great Britain
Men's Madison: Belgium
Women's Omnium: Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands)
Men's Omnium: Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain)
The 2026 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Series is held over three rounds, round one in Perth, Australia from 6 - 8 March 2026, round two in Hong Kong from 17 - 19 April 2026 and round three in Nilai, Malaysia from 24 - 26 April 2026.
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The 2026 UCI Track Cycling World Championships takes place at the Shanghai Velodrome on Chongming Island, China from 14 - 28 October 2026
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The 2024 Paris Olympic Games Track Cycling events took place at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Paris, France from 5 - 11 August 2024
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If you come from road cycling, the rainbow bands are sacred. Former world champions carry them for life: thin horizontal stripes on the sleeves and collar, a quiet signal of pedigree that needs no explanation.
9 February 2026: Colombian track sprinter Martha Bayona has been handed an 18-month ban by the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal after recording three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period — a ruling she has said she will accept.
9 February 2026: The 2026 Lloyds National Track Championships are shaping up to be one of the most compelling domestic events in recent years, with a deep field of Britain’s best riders confirmed to race — including newly crowned European champions Matt Richardson and Anna Morris.
9 February 2026: For many young Australian track cyclists, being named in a state team for the 2026 AusCycling Track National Championships means much more than a line on a list. It is the promise of anticipation, nerves, rivalry and the first real taste of racing at a national stage.
9 February 2026: There is something understated about the start of a new Olympic cycle. No countdown clocks, no selection drama, no medals on the line — just riders back on the track, turning laps again, quietly beginning the long road to Los Angeles 2028.
Women’s track sprinting has quietly become the most competitive, technically advanced and unpredictable area of elite track cycling. The 2026 UEC European Track Cycling Championships merely confirmed what has been building for several seasons: the depth of the women’s sprint field now exceeds the men’s in almost every meaningful way.
This is not about one exceptional rider. It is about a system, a talent pool, and a competitive landscape that now produces genuine uncertainty in sprint, keirin and kilo racing.
6 February 2026: When Roger Kluge crossed the line to win the men’s Madison at the 2026 European Championships with Moritz Augenstein, the moment landed with extra weight. It came on Kluge’s 40th birthday. Not a farewell lap. Not a ceremonial ride. A full-blooded championship win at the sharp end of elite European track racing.
5 February 2026: The women’s individual pursuit at the 2026 European Track Championships in Konya produced one of the most significant endurance performances in the history of the event, as Josie Knight destroyed the world record in qualification with a commanding ride of 4:19.461.
5 February 2026: For years, Harrie Lavreysen has been the immovable object of elite sprinting. Not just the fastest rider on the track, but the most tactically complete: unshakeable under pressure, ruthless in positioning, and almost impossible to out-think across a best-of-three sprint final. That is exactly why the 2026 UEC European Sprint title won by Matthew Richardson in Konya matters so much. This was not an opportunistic win. This was not luck. This was a rider executing a clear tactical plan, heat after heat, against the most dominant sprinter of his generation, and finally making Harrie Lavreysen look human.
5 February 2026: During the 2026 UEC European Track Cycling Championships you may have seen Harrie Lavreysen and Steffie van der Peet of the Netherlands using face masks connected to small hand-held devices that generate a visible mist. These devices are Portable Ultrasonic Nebulizers from Ortorex. They are not oxygen masks and they are not delivering medication in most sporting contexts. Instead, they are used as a respiratory comfort and airway hydration tool between maximal sprint efforts.
4 February 2026: Global sports broadcaster beIN SPORTS has confirmed its broadcast coverage of the Six Days track cycling, providing viewers with live and on-demand access to one of the sport’s most established and distinctive competition formats.
4 February 2026: Construction work has officially begun on a new indoor velodrome in Dublin, marking a major milestone for Irish cycling after years of planning, discussion and delays. The project represents a significant step forward in the development of track cycling infrastructure in Ireland and is expected to have long-term benefits for athlete development and participation.
3rd February 2026: The Great Britain women's team pursuit squad delivered one of the standout performances of the 2026 European Track Championships in Konya, breaking the women’s team pursuit world record twice, culminating in a new benchmark time of 4:02.808.
3rd February 2026: The men’s team pursuit at the European Track Championships in Konya produced one of the defining endurance performances of the season, as Denmark men's team pursuit obliterated the world record in round one, while Switzerland men's team pursuit delivered a major shock by eliminating Great Britain men's team pursuit from the competition.
3 February 2026: British track sprinter Emma Finucane has shattered the women’s flying 200 metre world record, becoming the fastest woman in history over the discipline with a time of 9.759 seconds at the European Track Championships in Konya, Turkey.
This series explores the less visible pressures shaping modern elite track sprinting, beyond medals and results. While leading nations continue to deliver world-class performances, quieter concerns are emerging around pathway depth, transition years, and athlete welfare. In men’s sprinting in particular, the layers below the established elite are not always stepping up to provide sustained internal competition, even as women’s programmes show growing strength in depth. Alongside this sits a renewed focus on duty of care: how federations such as British Cycling support athletes whose careers end early through injury or deselection, and whether life skills and education should be integral to high-performance sprint pathways.
20 January 2026: Entries have now opened for the 2026 UCI Masters Track World Championships, with rider registration available online.
The championships will take place at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London between 5 and 11 October 2026, bringing masters riders from around the world together to compete across sprint and endurance track disciplines. The event is open to eligible riders across the full range of UCI Masters age categories.
19 January 2026: Former Great Britain track cyclist Vicky Williamson has announced her retirement from elite sport, reflecting on a career marked by significant highs, life-changing injury, and an unexpected second chapter across multiple disciplines.
15 January 2026: Former world champion sprinter Theo Bos has been appointed as sprint coach for the Belgian national track cycling programme, marking a significant addition to Belgium’s high-performance coaching structure ahead of the next Olympic cycle
12 January 2026: Malaysian sprint star Azizulhasni Awang has stated that experience, mental resilience, and disciplined preparation will be central to his efforts to remain competitive at the highest level of track cycling in 2026. Now a veteran of the international sprint scene, Azizul is continuing to adapt his approach as physical demands, recovery needs, and competition intensity evolve with age.
12 January 2026: At the second stage of the ASEAN Track Series track cycling competition in Nilai, Malaysia, members of the Uzbekistan national cycling team delivered notable performances across several events, earning a complete set of medals in the process.
12 January 2026: Malaysian track cyclists delivered a striking performance at the first round of the ASEAN Track Series (President’s Cup), clinching three gold medals at the National Velodrome in Nilai. The results confirmed Malaysia’s strength in sprint and points-race disciplines within the regional cycling competition.
12 January 2026: British track sprinter Emma Finucane has confirmed that she will target the women’s flying 200 metre world record during qualifying at the upcoming European Track Championships in Konya, Turkey. While the flying 200 m is not itself a medal event, Finucane has stated that she wants to use the opportunity to attempt a historic sub-10 second ride.
Secret Track Cyclist is an anonymous diary inspired by real-life experiences in elite track cycling. Each entry is written from the perspective of a different figure within the sport. Names, identities, and events are intentionally obscured to protect this week's author.
Every now and then, elite track cycling collides with the real world. This usually happens in a GP surgery. The appointment is routine. A general health check. Nothing dramatic. You feel fine. You train full-time. You know exactly what your body can do. The first thing they do is weigh you.
At some point in every elite track cyclist’s career, logistics fail. The team gym is unavailable. The hotel gym is “under renovation”. Someone books the wrong venue. And suddenly, a professional woman sprinter finds herself training in a public gym on a Tuesday afternoon. This is not ideal. Public gyms have rules. Not written ones. Cultural ones. The first rule is that nobody believes you are strong.
There should be a rule in elite track cycling that nobody ever rooms with a sprinter. Not because they are difficult. Not because they are loud. Not even because they insist on turning the air conditioning down to arctic settings. It is the protein. Sprinters consume protein with a level of commitment usually reserved for religious practice. Shakes, bars, powders, liquids of uncertain origin. Everything comes in tubs the size of small buckets and smells faintly of vanilla, regret, and poor decision-making.
Communal hotel meals during track events are presented as a chance to recover together. This is optimistic. In reality, they are a live demonstration of geopolitics, logistics, and moral flexibility, played out over scrambled eggs. Everyone arrives at roughly the same time. This is not coincidence. It is strategy. You learn quickly that arriving five minutes late means eating whatever remains after the strongest personalities have finished negotiating with the buffet.
The technicalities of Track Cycling can be daunting for any Track Cyclist, whatever the level, as a consequence we have complied a list of frequently asked questions on Track Cycling. Our extensive Track Cycling Knowledge Base is regulary updated to provide you with a comprehensive guide to Track Cycling
Harrie Lavreysen is the most successful sprinter of our era, he is rarely beaten in the Sprint and Keirin.
As part of an academic coaching exercise, we have created a coaching guide to Harrie Lavreysen, with in-depth analysis of his riding style, tactics used, strengths and weaknesses and then formulating a training plan, tactical plan and psychological approach to beating a champion
Since the London 2012 era of Anna Meares and Victoria Pendleton, women’s sprinting has undergone a fundamental transformation.
While cadence remains central to sprinting, today’s performance balance also depends on torque generation, aerodynamic efficiency, and precise positional control.
Modern sprinters are no longer winning by out-spinning their rivals, but by extracting every watt from a drivetrain that’s been optimised in every measurable way.
The Hour Record is far more than a test of raw power. It is a physiological, psychological, and technical challenge that exposes every weakness in a rider’s preparation.
Success requires months of structured training, punctuated by precise track work, altitude planning, mental conditioning, aerodynamic optimisation, and nutritional discipline.
This section examines how riders prepare for the Hour Record across five key domains: training structure, psychology, altitude adaptation, rider position, and nutrition.
Most riders know that a well-prepared drivetrain is essential for fast, efficient riding. Chains, chainrings, sprockets, and lubrication all matter, but one area consistently overlooked is chainline alignment.
On a track bike, where the drivetrain operates under extremely high load and has no shifting requirements, perfect chainline is one of the most significant marginal gains any rider can make. It delivers more free speed than many premium upgrades that cost far more money.
Industry standard chainline for track cycling is 42 mm. Achieving this measurement, and matching the chainring and sprocket to within 1.0 mm of one another, should be considered essential practice for any rider who wants to maximise performance.
When Great Britain won gold in the men’s Team Sprint at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a 43.1 s ride, Jamie Staff’s 17.1-second opening lap set a benchmark that remains astonishing today.
Seventeen years on, at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Netherlands smashed the overall world record with 40.949s — yet Roy van den Berg’s opening 17.2 s was slower than Staff’s split.
In an era defined by marginal gains, wind-tunnel optimisation, and revolutionary equipment, Lap 1 remains track cycling’s unsolved riddle.
In track cycling, where races are often decided by fractions of a second, aerodynamic efficiency is as important as raw power.
Central to this is Coefficient of Drag Area (CdA)—a measure of how much resistance a rider and their equipment create against the air. A lower CdA means higher speed for the same power, making it a critical focus for riders across all disciplines, from sprint to bunch racing.
This guide explores the key factors that influence CdA in track cycling, including handlebar design, stem selection, wheel choice, and rider position, with reference to professional practice and UCI regulations.
In cycling, the coefficient of rolling resistance (Crr) describes the energy lost as a tyre rolls across the track surface.
Unlike aerodynamic drag (CdA), which increases rapidly with speed, Crr remains relatively constant across a wide range of velocities.
It arises from small but important sources: tyre deformation under load, friction between the tyre and surface, and energy dissipated through the casing and inner tube.
We have created a coaching guide for the Masters Track Cyclists, which aims to help you train for the event and achieve your at events such as the UCI World Masters Track Cycling Championships.
A number of FREE PDF downloads on the subjects highlighted are available at the bottom of the page
For Masters track cyclists success hinges not just on physical preparation, but also on mental discipline, smart lifestyle management, and sustainable training. Competing as a high-performing athlete while balancing work, family, and the realities of an aging body requires a refined, strategic mindset. Here’s how to build one.
We have created a coaching guide to assist you in maintaining Elite Performance during your Menstruation Cycle for an Olympic-level track cyclist, integrating physiology, nutrition, supplementation, training adjustments, and mindset strategies.
No athlete is a robot, and even with excellent tracking tools, managing variable, irregular, or overlaping menstrual cycle phases is one of the most complex and personal aspects of performance coaching for female athletes.
The key is to shift from rigid calendar-based models to a flexible, sympton-informed strategy that accounts for bio-individuality
While aerodynamics and rolling resistance dominate performance conversations in track cycling, the crankset remains one of the most critical – yet often underestimated – components in the power delivery chain.
From sprint torque transfer to pursuit pacing precision, crankset design directly impacts drivetrain stiffness, efficiency, rider fit, and ultimately, lap speed.
This section explores the science behind crank arm selection, materials, Q-factor, crank length, and power meter integration – revealing how this “invisible engine room” can unlock measurable performance gains on the boards.
In the relentless pursuit of marginal gains on the velodrome, chainrings and sprockets are often overshadowed by more glamorous components. Yet these humble drivetrain elements play a decisive role in translating raw power into speed with maximum efficiency.
From gear selection and stiffness to interface precision and aero shaping, your choice of chainring and sprocket can significantly influence both performance and reliability — lap after lap.
This section explores the critical engineering behind these components, revealing why the world’s fastest riders treat them as non-negotiable performance tools, not just drivetrain hardware.
We have created an app that allows you to search all of the indoor velodromes currently operational and discover the Altitude and average values for Temperature, Humdity and Air Density inside the facility.
Changing your Chainring and/or Sprocket size in Track Cycling is a common occurance and this can require you to also change the length of your chain to accomodate the new gearing.
We have created a simple app that allows you to calculate the length of chain required for each Chainring and Sprocket combination
We have created an app for calculating your Track Cycling Gear Size, simply enter your Chainring and Sprocket Size and the app tells you what gear size this will achieve
