Paul Manning (cyclist)

{{short description|English cyclist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}

{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Paul Manning
MBE

| image = 2019 UCI Juniors Track World Championships 005.jpg

| caption = Paul Manning (2019)

| fullname = Paul Christian Manning

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|11|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Sutton Coldfield, England

| height = {{height|m=1.89|precision=0}}{{cite web| url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/1/225161.shtml| title=Athlete Biography - MANNING Paul| publisher=Beijing Olympics official website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908182225/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/1/225161.shtml|archive-date=2008-09-08}}

| weight = {{convert|76|kg|lb st|abbr=on}}

| currentteam = Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner

| discipline = Road & Track

| role = Rider

| ridertype =

| amateuryears1 =

| amateurteam1 =

| proyears1 = 2007–2008

| proteam1 = Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner

| majorwins =

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport|Men's track cycling}}

{{MedalCountry| {{GBR2}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|2008 Beijing|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalSilver|2004 Athens|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalBronze|2000 Sydney|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2005 Los Angeles|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalGold|2007 Palma de Mallorca|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalGold|2008 Manchester|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalSilver|2000 Manchester|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalSilver|2001 Antwerp|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalSilver|2003 Stuttgart|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalSilver|2004 Melbourne|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalSilver|2006 Bordeaux|Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalBronze|2006 Bordeaux|Individual Pursuit}}

{{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalGold | 2006 Melbourne | Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalGold | 2006 Melbourne | Individual Pursuit}}

{{MedalSilver | 2002 Manchester | Team Pursuit}}

{{MedalBronze | 2002 Manchester | Individual Pursuit}}

}}

Paul Christian Manning, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|MBE}} (born 6 November 1974, Sutton Coldfield) is a former English professional track and road bicycle racer who rode for the UCI Professional Continental team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner in 2007 and 2008. He is strong in the Individual and Team Pursuit disciplines on track and has won many medals for Britain in the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Track World Championships and Track World Cups.

He was the British national individual pursuit champion in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005. He was also the national points race champion in 2005.

On 17 August 2008, Manning was a member of the Olympic team pursuit squad which broke the world record in the heats with a time of 3:55:202, beating their Russian opponents comfortably to go through to the final ride-off for silver and gold.{{cite web| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/cycling/7566164.stm| title=GB pursuit team set world record| publisher=BBC Sport| date=17 August 2008}} The following day, on their way to winning the gold medal, the British Team pursuit broke their own world record in a time of 3:53:314, beating their Danish competitors by 6.7 seconds.{{cite web| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/cycling/7567845.stm| title=GB storm to gold in team pursuit| publisher=BBC Sport| date=18 August 2008}}

After the Olympics he announced his retirement from professional cycling.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/09/01/paul-manning-i-ve-got-a-gold-medal-but-i-don-t-have-a-job-115875-20719748/ |title=Paul Manning: I've got a gold medal but I don't have a job|date=31 August 2008 | publisher=Daily Mirror}} Manning was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=58929 |date=31 December 2008 |page=19 |supp=y}}

In 2009, he was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.{{cite web| url=http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/sport/article/bc20091216-Hall-of-fame-fifty| title=50 Cycling Heroes Named in British Cycling's Hall of Fame| publisher=British Cycling| date=2009-12-17| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220041110/http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/sport/article/bc20091216-Hall-of-fame-fifty| archive-date=20 December 2009| df=dmy-all}}

After his retirement Manning joined the GB Cycling Team coaching staff as women's endurance coach; since then the women's endurance team has broken the Team Pursuit world record six times, once in winning the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Manning won the ‘High Performance Coach of the Year Award’ at the 2012 UK Coaching Awards.{{cite web|title=[London Marathon] 2013 celebrity biographies|url=http://static.london-marathon.co.uk/downloads/pdf/celeb-list-03-2013.pdf|publisher=Virgin London Marathon|access-date=21 April 2013}}

He studied Earth Sciences at the University of Birmingham and graduated in 1996.

Manning coaches the New Zealand female pursuit team, going to the 2024 Olympics with the team.