BARKER Elinor

Date of Birth: 7 Sep 1994

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Place of birth: CARDIFF

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Cycling Track	Women's Team Pursuit GBR Great Britain	2
	Women's Madison

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Izu Velodrome	Women's Team Pursuit Qualifying	Finished
	Izu Velodrome	Women's Team Pursuit First Round - Heat 3	Finished
	Izu Velodrome	Women's Team Pursuit Finals - Gold	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

CYCLING TRACK

Olympic Games

Year	Location	4km TP
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1

World Championships

Year	Location	Points Race	Scratch	3km IP	Omnium	4km TP	3km TP	Madison
2020	Berlin, GER	1	-	-	-	2	-	6
2019	Pruszkow, POL	-	1	-	-	2	-	4
2018	Apeldoorn, NED	12	-	-	6	2	-	-
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	1	2	-	-	5	-	2
2016	London, GBR	-	-	-	-	3	-	-
2015	Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, FRA	-	17	-	-	2	-	-
2014	Cali, COL	-	-	9	-	1	-	-
2013	Minsk, BLR	-	-	-	-	-	1	-

European Championships

Year	Location	Points Race	Scratch	3km IP	4km TP	Madison	Elimination
2020	Plovdiv, BUL	-	-	-	1	3	1
2019	Apeldoorn, NED	-	-	7	1	-	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	12	-	-	1	-	-
2017	Berlin, GER	8	-	-	2	1	-
2016	Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, FRA	5	2	-	-	-	-

World Cup (Ranking)

Rank	Event	Year
4	Points Race	2016/2017
8	Omnium	2017/2018
9	Scratch	2017/2018
12	Scratch	2016/2017
35	Omnium	2018/2019
43	Scratch	2019/2020

Year	Location	Points Race	Scratch	Omnium	4km TP	Madison
2019/2020	Glasgow, GBR	-	12	-	1	2
2018/2019	London, GBR	-	-	5	1	-
2018/2019	Milton, ON, CAN	-	-	-	1	1
2017/2018	Minsk, BLR	-	2	2	-	6
2017/2018	Manchester, GBR	-	-	-	1	1
2017/2018	Pruszkow, POL	-	-	4	-	2
2016/2017	Los Angeles, CA, USA	-	3	-	-	5
2016/2017	Apeldoorn, NED	1	-	-	-	-

Legend
IP - Individual Pursuit, TP - Team Pursuit, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

CYCLING ROAD

UCI Road World Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2017	Bergen, NOR	66	19

Ten best performances in major races in career

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
37	2019	Women's Individual	Tour of California	Pasadena, CA, USA
40	2017	Road Race	RideLondon Classique	London, GBR
69	2018	Road Race	Trofeo Binda	Cittiglio, ITA
69	2015	Women's Individual	The Women's Tour	Hemel Hempstead, GBR
70	2015	Road Race	Fleche Wallonne	Huy, BEL
80	2018	Women's Individual	Emakumeen Bira	Iurreta, ESP
84	2019	Road Race	RideLondon Classique	London, GBR

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, OTL - Outside the Time Limit

Learning sign language. (uci.org, 20 Dec 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Human Biology - Open University, Great Britain

Languages spoken:

Wiggle Honda [Great Britain]

Sporting relatives:

Her sister Megan Barker won gold in track cycling [madison] at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. She has also competed in road cycling and represented Wales in the sport at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (SportsDeskOnline, 16 Apr 2020; uci.org, 20 Dec 2019)

Other sports:

She has represented Great Britain at the world championships in both track cycling and road cycling. (SportsDeskOnline, 16 Apr 2020; Twitter profile, 09 Apr 2020)

2012 for Great Britain, World Cup in Glasgow, Great Britain (britishcycling.org.uk, 04 Mar 2016)

She broke her collarbone after crashing during the 2019 RideLondon Classique in England. (bbc.co.uk, 04 Aug 2019)

In November 2015 she was unwell at the World Cup event in Cali, Colombia. She still started the bronze medal race in order to fulfil competition rules, before stepping off the track when the race started. (bbc.co.uk, 06 Nov 2015)

She struggled with injury in 2015 and missed three months of the season. (mancunianmatters.co.uk, 17 Jan 2016; walesonline.co.uk, 22 Oct 2015)

National team:

2012 (britishcycling.org.uk, 04 Mar 2016)

She began cycling at age 10 with the Maindy Flyers Cycling Club in Wales. (wigglehighfive.com, 18 Sep 2012)

She took up cycling as a way of getting out of swimming classes. "There was a cycling track at the pool and the two sessions were at the same time. I knew if I did one I couldn't do the other. I have no idea how I got away with it because swimming was cheaper, a lot less dangerous and it was inside so mum could sit in the cafe and chat." (cyclist.co.uk, 10 Jan 2018; rouleur.cc, 21 Oct 2015)

To win multiple medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (bbc.co.uk, 04 Mar 2020)

Winning gold in team pursuit at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (cyclist.co.uk, 10 Jan 2018)

In 2017 she was named Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire [MBE] in Great Britain. (thegazette.co.uk, 31 Dec 2016)

She was presented with Welsh Cycling's Outstanding Performance of the Year award for 2015 alongside Ciara Horne and Amy Roberts. The honour was in recognition of the gold medal they won in team pursuit at the 2014/15 World Cup event in Guadalajara, Mexico. (walesonline.co.uk, 08 Nov 2015)

In 2012 she was named Junior Sportswoman of the Year at the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year awards. (sportsister.com, 12 Dec 2012)

General Interest

General
CAREER SAVER
She had surgery in mid-2018 to relieve the symptoms of endometriosis. Although she had been experiencing symptoms for several years, she was not diagnosed with the condition until the early part of 2018. "I don't know how much longer I would have been able to compete if I had not had the operation. What was affecting my racing was prolonged periods of constant uncomfortable pain. It felt never ending. It took three or four years to get a diagnosis but the average is seven, so I'm glad it didn't go on any longer." (theguardian.com, 22 Feb 2020; telegraph.co.uk, 21 Nov 2019)

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Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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