Kian Emadi will leave the Great Britain Cycling Team after an impressive, long-standing career in the sport which has seen him become team pursuit world champion, alongside two other world championship medals and a Commonwealth Games silver.
Emadi cycled from a young age across a number of disciplines (track, road and cyclo-cross), before moving to Manchester at the age of 18 as a member of the British Cycling Podium Programme.
In his early years of competition, Emadi wracked up junior national titles in sprint and keirin, as well as consecutive national junior keirin titles in 2009 and 2010. The rider took the national kilo title twice more, as an elite, in 2012 and 2013.
Emadi continued to wrack up international medals, including setting a short-lived world record in the team sprint with Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes in round two for the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Cup. Emadi’s sprint career culminated in a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, alongside teammates Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes.
2015 saw Emadi make the switch to endurance, winning the UCI Track Cycling World Cup gold medal in 2016 and 2018 as part of the team pursuit quartet. The accolades kept on coming as Emadi became a world champion for the first time in his career at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn - as alongside Clancy, Ethan Hayter and Charlie Tanfield, the four riders beat Denmark in the team pursuit to win gold.
The following month, Emadi lined up for Team England in the team pursuit at the Commonwealth Games in Australia alongside Hayter, Tanfield and Wood - winning silver.
Emadi and his Great Britain team-mates picked up a silver at the 2019 world championships, followed by a bronze medal in the same event the year after.
