News: Jason Kenny Retires

Britain’s most successful Olympian, Sir Jason Kenny, has today been announced as the new Podium Men’s Sprint Coach for the Great Britain Cycling Team, bringing down the curtain on an illustrious career which has seen him win seven Olympic titles across four Games.

News: Jason Kenny Retires

Where winning at world level began for Jason Kenny, Austria 2005 and the Junior Worlds where he won the Men’s Keirin but was dq’d. The next year he made up for it winning three titles!

Kenny will take up the role with immediate effect as the men’s sprint team continue their preparations for Paris 2024, where they will look to continue a proud record of finishing on the podium in every men’s sprint event since Beijing 2008. A product of British Cycling’s Rider Route, Kenny burst onto the international scene by winning a clean sweep of three gold medals at the 2006 UCI Junior World Track Cycling Championships, before making his senior debut later that same year.

He won his first Olympic gold at Beijing in the team sprint, and was second to Sir Chris Hoy in the individual sprint, before taking both titles four years later in London. Remarkably, he then went one better in Rio in 2016, taking a clean sweep of team sprint, individual sprint and keirin titles to match Hoy’s six Olympic titles. Yet Kenny wasn’t finished there, and after taking team sprint silver in Tokyo he then produced one of the all-time great Olympic performances to claim a seventh gold in the keirin, catching the field by surprise with a searing acceleration to blaze to an unprecedented solo victory. With that medal Kenny became Britain’s most successful Olympian, and was knighted in the New Year Honours list in December last year.

Sir Jason’s former team-mate and six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy, said: “I was really excited to hear that Jason has been appointed as the men’s sprint coach. He was a fantastic team-mate and an extraordinary athlete, and I’m looking forward to seeing him translate his experiences over four Olympic Games into supporting the next generation of talented British riders to achieve their best.”