Tanfield and Hayter selected for British Cycling Podium Programme

The 21-year-old joins fellow team pursuit world champion Ethan Hayter as the latest additions to the programme, with Tanfield revelling in success as part of trade outfit Team KGF.

That's included titles at both world and Commonwealth level, joining forces with Hayter, Kian Emadi and Ed Clancy en route to global gold in Apeldoorn, in March.

But the promising youngster showed he could deliver the goods as a solo rider too, overcoming Scotland's John Archibald to stand atop the podium in the individual pursuit at the Commonwealth Games, securing a Games record in the process.

"I'm delighted to find out I've been selected onto the Great Britain Cycling Team," said Tanfield, whose brother Harry won the first stage of this month's Tour de Yorkshire. "It's great to see that all the hard work has paid off.

"I have some very high ambitions which I want to achieve during my cycling career and the Great Britain Cycling Team men's endurance programme fills me with confidence that I'm the right place.

"Racing, living and training with the KGF boys has been absolutely great and I enjoyed every minute of it, even the 7am training sessions.

"I've made some great mates and would like to thank them for a great season of racing and for putting the team together. I'm sure they'll have some great races next year, I'll just be on the other side of the track."

Hayter, meanwhile, makes the leap from the Senior Academy having also enjoyed a bounty of global honours earlier this year.

Still aged just 19, world gold in the Netherlands saw him into the rainbow jersey for the first time, a promising standpoint from which the teenager was expected to grow.

That came to fruition with two medals last month, taking Commonwealth silver in the team pursuit alongside Emadi, Tanfield and Oliver Wood, while bronze came his way in the points race on the Gold Coast.

Performance director Stephen Park said: "Ethan has followed the more traditional route along our performance pathway to reach the Podium Programme and it will no doubt have served as inspiration for the riders on the Great Britain Cycling Team pathway to have seen Ethan on the top step of the podium wearing the rainbow jersey.

"I've enjoyed following the progress of both Charlie and Ethan and the different pathways they have taken to reach the Podium Programme.

"With team pursuit times continuing to get faster and faster, Charlie and Ethan will be valuable members to the men's endurance squad and I look forward to seeing what they can achieve together in the season ahead."

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