The 2025 Lloyds National Track Championships are only a few weeks away, when the finest riders in the country descend on Manchester for the three-day event running from Friday 21 to Sunday 23 February.
Some of the biggest names in the sport will be racing at the home of British Cycling, the National Cycling Centre, with Olympic and Paralympic champions taking to the track in pursuit of domestic honours. A limited number of tickets are still available so do not miss your chance to see world-class riders in action.
Women’s sprint
Olympic champions Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell will be among those entertaining the crowds as teammates become rivals in the women’s keirin and sprint events, which will take place across the Saturday and Sunday respectively. They will also face fierce competition from reigning national sprint and keirin champion Lauren Bell and Scottish champion Kirsty Johnson.
Olympian Lowri Thomas and previous sprint champion Rhian Edmunds will team up with Bell for the team sprint.
Daphne Schrager spearheads the para-cycling women’s time-trial, while Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl will be hoping to take the title in the tandem 1km event, with competition from Lizzi Jordan and Dani Khan, and Lora Fachie with new pilot Charlotte Deykin.
Men’s sprint
Matthew Richardson will be competing in his first British National Track Championships and will be looking for a title clean sweep in the sprint, keirin and team sprint.
2024 sprint champion Pete Mitchell will be hoping to reclaim the individual title, having recently taken the win at the SD Team CymruVelo Cup last weekend, with Olympian Hamish Turnbull, 2023 champion Harry Ledingham-Horn and Scottish rider Lyall Craig also challenging for the title.
A stacked keirin field will also excite fans, with Hayden Norris hoping to defend his title after a photo finish in last year’s final.
Paralympic royalty including gold medallists James Ball and pilot Steffan Lloyd, and Jody Cundy will be looking to take those national stripes in their first track event since the medal rush of last summer’s Games. The para-cycling team sprint will also be awarded national championship status for the first time.
Women’s endurance
Two-time Olympic champion Katie Archibald will return to her training ground in Manchester, ready to take on the bunch races in a fantastic women’s field. Archibald will be challenged for the scratch and points titles by the likes of her pursuit world champion teammates Anna Morris, Josie Knight, Jess Roberts and Meg Barker, as well as Olympian Neah Evans. Double defending champion Jenny Holl will also be one to watch, alongside junior world gold medallists Cat Ferguson, Imogen Wolff, Carys Lloyd and Erin Boothman.
Pursuit world champion Morris is the hot favourite for the individual pursuit, with previous national champion Evans also fighting for another title. Schrager will be looking for the para-cycling pursuit title, while Unwin and Holl, Jordan and Khan and Fachie and Deykin are the podium tandem favourites.
Men’s endurance
Pursuit silver medallist and previous world record holder Josh Charlton is the hot favourite for the men’s pursuit and will also be competing in both the scratch and points races. Reigning points champion Will Perrett will be hoping to defend his title, as will Sam Fisher in the points who shocked the crowd with his title-winning race last year at just 17-years-old.
Other ones to watch include 2023 scratch world champion Will Tidball, Olympic silver medallists Ollie Wood and Mark Stewart, world medallist Rhys Britton, junior pursuit champion Henry Hobbs and 2024 pursuit national champion Michael Gill.
Paralympians Fin Graham and Archie Atkinson are the para pursuit favourites, while Steve Bate and Chris Latham will be hoping to take the tandem title.
There are not many tickets left to see world-class racing in Manchester, so click here for more details.
The event timetable can be found here and media can apply for accreditation here.
