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| Full name | Manon Haf Lloyd | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 November 1996 Carmarthen, Wales | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| 2016–2017 | Team Breeze | ||||||||||||||
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| 2018–2019 | Trek–Drops | ||||||||||||||
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Manon Lloyd (born 5 November 1996) is a Welsh presenter and former road and track cyclist. [1] [2] She rode professionally for UCI Women's Team Drops in 2018 and 2019. [3] Representing Great Britain at international competitions, she won the bronze medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the team pursuit. [4] She finished third in the individual competition at the 2017 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix. [5]
In 2019, Lloyd joined the Global Cycling Network YouTube channel as a presenter. [6]
Biography
Lloyd is the elder of two children, raised on her family's sheep farm near Kidwelly. [2] She attended Ysgol y Fro in the nearby village of Llangyndeyrn. [7] Having enjoyed swimming and running as a child, she wanted to try triathlon. She joined her local club, Towy Riders, taking up cycling around the age of 14, at Carmarthen Park velodrome. [2]
Major results
- 2014
-
UEC European Junior Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st
Points race
- 1st
- 2016
- UCI Track World Cup
- 1st
Team pursuit,
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships - 3rd
Team pursuit,
UEC European Track Championships - 2017
-
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 1st
Madison (with
Ellie Dickinson)
- 3rd Points race
- 1st
- 1st
Team pursuit,
National Track Championships - Track Cycling Challenge
- 1st Madison (with Emily Kay)
- 2nd Scratch race
- 2nd
Team pursuit,
UEC European Track Championships - 3rd
Team pursuit, Round 1 (
Pruszków),
Track Cycling World Cup (with
Neah Evans,
Emily Kay and
Emily Nelson)
[8]
References
- ^ Manon Lloyd | GCN, retrieved 10 July 2022
- ^ a b c Chris Kelsey (5 April 2018). "The lanes around her parents' farm were the perfect training ground for Commonwealth Games cyclist Manon Lloyd". Wales Online. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "Megan Barker rounds out 10-rider squad for Drops". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "European Track Championships 2016 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines" (PDF). europeantrack2016.veloresults.com. October 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ "Rebecca Durrell leads Drops to the Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series title in Stevenage : Tour Series". Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ The Do's & Don'ts For Cyclists At Christmas | GCN Show Ep.363, retrieved 24 December 2019
- ^ "Taflen Newyddion Cymunedol Llandyfaelog Community Newsletter". llandyfaelog.org.uk. Llandyfaelog Community Council. 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
External links
- Manon Lloyd at ProCyclingStats
- Manon Lloyd on Facebook
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