Jamie Staff
BMX cruiserweight world champion UCI Track Cycling World Cup in the keirin 2004 UCI Track Cycling World Champion in Team Sprint 2002, 2005 Olympic gold medalist in the team sprint, 2008
Jamie Alan Staff (born 30 April 1973 in Ashford, United Kingdom ) is a British racing driver who was active as a BMX and track cyclist. His greatest successes were a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the team sprint and medals at UCI Track World Championships.
Life and career
Jamie Staff began at the age of nine with the BMX sport. He went to the United States and went to the ABA (American Bicycle Association ) and NBL ( National Bicycle League) series. In 1996, he won a gold medal in the BMX World Cup. Since BMX was not an Olympic sport at the time, however, he switched to track cycling.
Staff was able to qualify immediately for the British cycling team and win at the 2002 Commonwealth Games for England, the silver medal in the team sprint, the bronze medal in the 1000 -meter time trial and break the national record in the 200 m. In the same year he won at the UCI Track World Championships in 2002 in the Danish Ballerup the gold medal in the team sprint with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean.
Jamie started in 2004 at the Olympic Games in Athens and was twelfth in the Keirin and fifth in the team sprint ( with Hoy, MacLean and Jason Queally ). Both the 2006 Commonwealth Games as well as in the track world championships in the same year he won a silver medal in the team sprint. In 2008 he won with Hoy and Jason Kenny in the world record at the team sprint at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Staff drove it the fastest ever driven first round in a team sprint.
In March 2010, Jamie Staff explained because of chronic back problems his retirement from competitive cycling. A little later he was American coach for the short-term range in track cycling.