Katy Marchant

Katy Marchant
MBE
Marchant in 2024
Personal information
Full nameKaty Louise Marchant
Born (1993-01-30) 30 January 1993
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
DisciplineTrack
RoleRider
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2024 Paris Team sprint
2016 Rio de Janeiro Sprint
World Championships
2024 Ballerup Team sprint
2024 Ballerup 500 m time trial
2024 Ballerup Keirin
European Championships
2024 Apeldoorn 500 m time trial
2023 Grenchen Team sprint
2024 Apeldoorn Team sprint
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold Coast Team sprint

Katy Louise Marchant (born 30 January 1993) is a British track cyclist who specialises in the keirin, sprint, team sprint and track time trial disciplines. She is an Olympic and world champion in the team sprint, and a European champion in the 500 m time trial.

Marchant began her sporting career as a heptathlete and represented Great Britain at the 2012 World Junior Championships. She switched to track cycling in 2013, and became the European under-23 champion in the keirin in 2015. She also won four national titles that year, and the following year, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the sprint. In 2018, she won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the Commonwealth Games and won her first World Cup gold medal the following year in the keirin. In 2024, she became the European champion in the 500 m time trial, and an Olympic and world champion in the team sprint.