Paul Christian Manning, (born 6 November 1974, Sutton Coldfield) is a former English professional track and road bicycle racer who rode for the UCI Professional Continental team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner in 2007 and 2008. He is strong in the Individual and Team Pursuit disciplines on track and has won many medals for Britain in the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Track World Championships and Track World Cups.
He was the British national individual pursuit champion in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005. He was also the national points race champion in 2005.
On 17 August 2008, Manning was a member of the Olympic team pursuit squad which broke the world record in the heats with a time of 3:55:202, beating their Russian opponents comfortably to go through to the final ride-off for silver and gold. The following day, on their way to winning the gold medal, the British Team pursuit broke their own world record in a time of 3:53:314, beating their Danish competitors by 6.7 seconds.
After the Olympics he announced his retirement from professional cycling. Manning was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
In 2009, he was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.
After his retirement Manning joined the GB Cycling Team coaching staff as women's endurance coach; since then the women's endurance team has broken the Team Pursuit world record six times, once in winning the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Manning won the ‘High Performance Coach of the Year Award’ at the 2012 UK Coaching Awards.
He studied Earth Sciences at the University of Birmingham and graduated in 1996.
Manning coaches the New Zealand female pursuit team, going to the 2024 Olympics with the team.
Palmares
Olympics 2000 Sydney 3rd, Team Pursuit (bronze medal) 2004 Athens 2nd, Team Pursuit (silver medal) 2008 Beijing 1st, Team Pursuit (gold medal)
World Championships 2000 Manchester 2nd, Team Pursuit 2001 Belgium 2nd, Team Pursuit 2003 Stuttgart 2nd, Team Pursuit 4th, Individual Pursuit 2004 Melbourne 2nd, Team Pursuit 2005 Los Angeles 1st, Team Pursuit 2006 Bordeaux 2nd, Team Pursuit 3rd, Individual Pursuit 2007 Palma de Mallorca 1st, Team Pursuit 2008 Manchester 1st, Team Pursuit
Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester 2nd, Team Pursuit 3rd, Individual Pursuit 2006 Melbourne 1st, Individual Pursuit 1st, Team Pursuit 9th, Men's Road Time Trial
UCI Track World Cup 2002 Mexico 1st, Individual Pursuit 2003 South Africa 2nd, Team Pursuit 2003 Mexico 2nd, Team Pursuit 3rd, Individual Pursuit 2004 Sydney 1st, Individual Pursuit 1st, Team Pursuit 2004 Manchester 3rd, Individual Pursuit 1st, Team Pursuit 2005/6 Manchester 1st, Team Pursuit 1st, Individual Pursuit 2006 Moscow 1st, Team Pursuit 3rd, Individual Pursuit
British Championships 2001 1st, Individual Pursuit 2003 1st, Individual Pursuit 2004 1st, Individual Pursuit 1st, Team Pursuit 2005 1st, Points Race 1st, Individual Pursuit
Other results 1996 Duo Normand (with Chris Boardman) 2001 FBD Milk Ras 2002 FBD Milk Ras stage 6 2003 Herald Sun Tour stage 8 2007 Tour of Britain stage 6
References
External links Paul Manning Bio on Britishcycling.com Paul Manning interviewed by students