Katie Prankerd

Catherine Rachel "Katie" Prankerd (née Curtis; born 1 November 1988) is a Welsh former professional road and track cyclist.

For the musician, see Catie Curtis.

Katie Prankerd
Personal information
Full nameCatherine Rachel Prankerd
BornCatherine Rachel Curtis
(1988-11-01) 1 November 1988
Cardiff, Wales
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st)[1]
Team information
Current teamRetired
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeEndurance
Amateur teams
 Maindy Flyers
 Cardiff Ajax
2007Team Global Racing
2008Team Halfords Bikehut
2009Vision1 Racing
2010–2013Cardiff Jif
2017Storey Racing
Professional teams
2014Starley Primal[2]
2016Podium Ambition Pro Cycling
Major wins
United Kingdom British Champion Junior x2
Wales Welsh Champion

Career

Born in Cardiff,[3] Prankerd began competing at a young age with the Maindy Flyers children's cycle club before joining Cardiff Ajax. Prankerd set the record for the 5-kilometre (3.1-mile) Tandem Standing Start event on the track along with Alex Greenfield, with a time of 7 minutes 4.424 seconds. The record was set at the Newport Velodrome on 10 June 2004.[4] They also held the 10-kilometre (6.2-mile) Tandem Standing Start event on the track, with a time of 13 minutes 10.421 seconds. The record was also set at the Newport Velodrome, on 16 May 2006. In 2008 Prankerd rode with Team Halfords Bikehut before moving to Vision1 Racing in 2009.

Prankerd suffered a setback to her cycling career when she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Subsequently, she took up a coaching role at the Wales National Velodrome in Newport and teamed up with partially sighted cyclist Nia Knight with a view to competing in the tandem event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[5] Prankerd subsequently rode solo, representing Wales in the scratch race, where she finished 7th.[1][6]

Major results

Track
2003
3rd Scratch, National Youth Championships
2004
National Youth Championships
1st Points race
1st Scratch
2nd Sprint
3rd Scratch, National Junior Championships
Commonwealth Youth Games
4th 500m time trial
7th Points race
2005
National Junior Championships
1st Scratch
2nd Points race
3rd Sprint
3rd Keirin, National Championships
2006
National Junior Championships
1st Points race
2nd Scratch
National Championships
2nd Scratch
3rd Points race
2007
1st WCRA 'Derny Paced' Championships
National Championships
2nd Points race
3rd Derny
3rd Scratch
8th Scratch, UCI Track World Championships
2013
Newport International Cup
3rd Female B 3km Individual pursuit (with Nia Knight)[7]
7th Female B 1km Time trial (with Nia Knight)[7]
9th Tandem B road race, UCI Paracycling World Cup round 5, Matane (with Nia Knight)[8]
2014
7th Scratch, Commonwealth Games[9]
2015
Revolution Round 6, Manchester
2nd Points race
2nd Scratch
2017
3rd Team pursuit, National Championships

Road
2003
2nd Criterium, National Junior Road Championships
2004
1st Criterium, National Junior Road Championships
2007
1st Road race, Welsh Road Championships
3rd Criterium, National Road Championships
2013
2nd Tandem, National Paracycling Road Circuit Championships (with Nia Knight)[10]
2014
1st Newport Nocturne[11]
5th Milk Race[12]
8th Cheshire Classic[13]
2015
3rd Women's Tour de Yorkshire[14]
3rd Milk Race[15]
5th Cheshire Classic[16]
9th London Nocturne

References
  1. "Katie Curtis: Biography". Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  2. Curtis, Katie (22 March 2014). "Thank you @cardiffjif for all..." Twitter. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  3. "Profile". British Cycling. Archived from the original on 4 January 2008.
  4. "A New Record". Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
  5. Baker, Gary (22 September 2013). "Knight and Curtis come together to form the perfect partnership". Welsh Sports Association. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  6. "Commonwealth Games 2014: Olympic champion Geraint Thomas and world sprint star Becky James head up Welsh cycling team for Glasgow". Wales Online. 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
  7. "Newport International Cup (C1 – Paracycling)". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  8. "UCI Paracycling World Cup #5 – Matane". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  9. Penman, Andrew (26 July 2014). "Bronze for Welsh cyclist Elinor Barker". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  10. "BC National Paracycling Road Circuit Championships". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  11. "The Newport Nocturne". British Cycling. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  12. "The Milk Race 2014". British Cycling. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  13. Wood, Andy (27 April 2014). "2014 Cheshire Classic Results". cheshireclassic.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  14. Abraham, Richard (2 May 2015). "Louise Mahé wins Tour de Yorkshire women's race". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  15. "The Milk Race". British Cycling. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  16. Williams, Huw (26 April 2015). "Victory for Sarah Storey in Women's Road Series". British Cycling. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
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