Katie Curtis Selected for GB Ex Maindy Flyer, Katie Curtis, joins another Ex Flyer, Geraint Thomas, in the Great Britain team to compete in the Track World Championships in Palma, Majorca, later this month. Both are members of the endurance squads and Katie becomes the youngest rider ever selected to represent GB on the track. Katie started with the Maindy Flyers when she was 8 and her first success was in the under 9 category of the Welsh Schools Hard Track Championships. That year she went on to claim the British Schools title at Scunthorpe.
These early success were soon followed by other wins and it was clear she had the potential to be a future star.
At 11 she was in the pursuit bronze ride off for the under 16 National Championships, this time just missing out on the medals. At 15 Katie moved on to Cardiff Ajax, riding and training with their senior riders. She was becoming the dominant force in under 16 girls cycling, in both track and circuit racing, going on to win all the endurance British titles, the scratch race, the points race and the road race, becoming the first Welsh girl since her club mate Nicole Cooke to achieve this feat. This success was rewarded with a place on the Olympic Development Programme. While with them she continued her success wining British Junior titles in the points and scratch races and also winning medals in the Junior ladies road race and in the senior ladies track championships. With her ODP team-mates, Lizzy Armistead and Jo Rowsell, Katie was selected at the end of 2006 to join the first Under 23 Women’s Academy.
We all wish her every success in what we hope will be the first of many GB appearances.