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Full name | Manon Haf Lloyd | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1996-11-05) 5 November 1996 (age 28) Carmarthen, Wales | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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2016–2017 | Team Breeze | ||||||||||||||
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2018–2019 | Trek–Drops | ||||||||||||||
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Manon Lloyd (born 5 November 1996) is a Welsh presenter and former road and track cyclist. She rode professionally for UCI Women's Team Drops in 2018 and 2019. Representing Great Britain at international competitions, she won the bronze medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the team pursuit. She finished third in the individual competition at the 2017 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix.
In 2019, Lloyd joined the Global Cycling Network YouTube channel as a presenter, and departed GCN on July 30, 2024.
Biography
Lloyd is the elder of two children, raised on her family's sheep farm near Kidwelly. She attended Ysgol y Fro in the nearby village of Llangyndeyrn. Having enjoyed swimming and running as a child, she wanted to try triathlon. She joined her local club, Towy Riders, taking up cycling around the age of 14, at Carmarthen Park velodrome.
Major results
- 2016
- UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
- 2017
- UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 1st Madison (with Ellie Dickinson)
- 3rd Points race
- 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
- Track Cycling Challenge
- 1st Madison (with Emily Kay)
- 2nd Scratch race
- 2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
- 3rd Team pursuit, Round 1 (Pruszków), Track Cycling World Cup (with Neah Evans, Emily Kay and Emily Nelson)
References
- Manon Lloyd | GCN, retrieved 10 July 2022
- ^ Chris Kelsey (5 April 2018). "The lanes around her parents' farm were the perfect training ground for Commonwealth Games cyclist Manon Lloyd". Wales Online. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- "Megan Barker rounds out 10-rider squad for Drops". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- "European Track Championships 2016 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines" (PDF). europeantrack2016.veloresults.com. October 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- "Rebecca Durrell leads Drops to the Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series title in Stevenage : Tour Series". Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- The Do's & Don'ts For Cyclists At Christmas | GCN Show Ep.363, retrieved 24 December 2019
- "Taflen Newyddion Cymunedol Llandyfaelog Community Newsletter". llandyfaelog.org.uk. Llandyfaelog Community Council. 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
External links
- Manon Lloyd at ProCyclingStats
- Manon Lloyd on Facebook