Elinor Barker

Elinor Jane Barker (born 7 September 1994) is a Welsh road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Uno-X Mobility. As a track cyclist, she is an Olympic champion in the team pursuit and a world champion in the team pursuit, madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines. She is also a Commonwealth Games gold medalist.

Barker competed at senior level for the first time in track cycling in October 2012, and she made her debut for Great Britain the following month where she was part of the team pursuit side that won gold in the World Cup event in Glasgow. In February 2013, she became senior world champion for the first time, in the team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships. Later that year, she won her first European Track Championships gold medal, again in the team pursuit, where Great Britain set a new world record. She helped Britain defend their world team pursuit title in 2014 and in the summer of that year she won a silver and a bronze while representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Further World and European Championships medals followed in 2015, and Barker won an Olympic gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Great Britain again setting a new world record. In 2017 Barker won her first individual title in the points race and in 2018 she won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, triumphing in the points race. In 2019, she became scratch race world champion for the first time and won her second points race world title the following year. Later in 2020 she won gold in the elimination race at the European Track Championships, and at the delayed Summer Olympics, she earned a silver in the team pursuit. Barker gave birth to a son in 2022 and missed much of the season, but returned in 2023 and won two gold medals at both the European and World Track Cycling Championships. At the 2024 Olympics, Barker won a bronze in the team pursuit and a silver in the madison, taking her career tally of Olympic medals to four, a record for a Welsh women.

Barker is an Olympic champion, a three-time World champion and seven-time European champion in the team pursuit, as well as a three-time World champion in the points and scratch races, a World champion in the madison, a two-time European madison champion and one time European elimination race champion. She is also a Commonwealth Games gold medalist in the points race. Barker has largely focused on track cycling during her career and has to date been unable to replicate her track cycling success into her road racing career. Her best ever finish in a UCI event is a seventh place finish at the Gent-Wevelgem in 2023. At national level she has twice finished third at the British National Time Trial Championships.