Katie Archibald was born on 12 March 1994, and is an elite Scottish and British racing cyclist, specializing in endurance track cycling events in which she represents Great Britain and Scotland.
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A member of the Great Britain 2016 Olympic champion and 2020 Olympic silver medallists team in women’s team pursuit, she is a champion in the same event at both the World (2014) and European (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023) championships and former world record holder.
She also holds an Olympic gold medal after winning the inaugural women’s Madison race at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with her partner, Laura Kenny.
Individually, Archibald has been European champion in the elimination race in 2015, four times in the omnium in 2016, 2017, 2021, and 2023, in the scratch race in 2021, the women’s Madison twice in 2021 and 2023, and a four-time European champion in the individual pursuit between 2013 and 2017.
In 2017 she secured her first individual global title, winning the Omnium at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and won a third world championship the following year when partnering with Emily Nelson to win the Madison at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
In 2021 she won her second individual world title, with a second world Omnium title.
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Archibald’s 20 gold medals in the European Elite track championships is an all-time record for that championship.
She also holds the women’s British national record for the individual pursuit.
Her brother, John, is also an elite cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Scotland.
Both won medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games representing. Katie won gold in the women’s individual pursuit and John silver in the men’s.
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The racing cyclist whose partner Rab Wardell, a mountain bike cyclist, died of cardiac arrest recently does not have any kids of her own currently.
The loss of her Rab, according to Archibald has left her totally broken-hearted.
She posted a few lines about her pain on social media saying, “I think you’ve heard that Rab died yesterday morning.”
“I still don’t understand what’s happened; if this is real; why he’d be taken now – so healthy and happy.”
“He went into cardiac arrest while we were lying in bed. I tried and tried, and the paramedics arrived within minutes, but his heart stopped and they couldn’t bring him back.”
“Mine stopped with it. I love him so much and need him here with me. I need him here so badly, but he’s gone. I can’t describe this pain.”
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