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NEWS: Feb '20 After a hard season of World Cups and the World Championships in Berlin, Amber finishes the year ranked 20th in the UCI rankings for the Omnium (the Olympic event) and in the World top 12 for the Scratch Race and Points Race. A good season and hopefully good opportunities ahead.
Feb '19: Amber qualifies for the World Championships in Poland and takes 7th in the Scratch Race and 11th in the Points (see Video), projecting her upto 3rd in the UCI end-of-season rankings for the Scratch and 10th for the Points Race.
Jan '19: Amber Finishes 2018 ranked 12th in the World for the Scratch & 19th for Points Race, in her first year as a senior. Then hits 2019 with a 4th in the Scratch at Roubaix and 3rd in IP despite having a backful of splinters from a crash in the Omnium. Oct '18: UCI Track World Cups: Amber takes 13th in the Paris Scratch race and in Canada she rides her 1st World Cup Omnium. She moves up to 14th In the world for the Scratch Race and 25th in UCI world rankings for the Points race. Sept '18: Amber wins U23 Scratch at Dudenhofen and takes 5th in Senior Pan-Am Champs taking her to 18th in the UCI World Rankings. June'18: Competing in the USA at Texler Town, Amber takes 4th in the UCI Omnium, 1st with Christina Birch in the UCI Madison and hoovers up podium places in T-Town's Pro-Am races. April'18: Amber represents Barbados at the Commonwealth Games. Jan '18: Amber completes her first 6-Day at Copenhagen, qualifying for the 6-day final, unfortunately the date clashed with Commonwealth Games.
As a coach you expect to see your athletes progress, but sometimes their progress surprises you. Amber’s progress astounds me. She came to UK in Nov 2013, from Barbados, with very little experience of track cycling and originally found the level of competition in the UK pretty difficult. Amber had a lot of work to do, but in 36months, Amber's hard work and focus had taken her from bunch race novice to a rider ranked as one of the top-5 Junior in UCI rankings. In 2016 Amber had focussed on the sprint route but she also retained her endurance base and after the BC National Champs 2016, where she placed 4th in Sprint she made the jump to track-endurance and went to the 2016 Junior Pan-American Track Champs, where she rode for Barbados, taking 4th in the Scratch Final and a SILVER medal in the Omnium. She then competed as the youngest rider (at 16yrs) in the Revolution Series for the VoxWomen Team in a field peppered with World and Olympic Champions. Amber returned to the Junior Pan-American Track Champs in 2017 repeating her silver in the Omnium, but taking GOLD in the Points Race Championship with an impressive 46pts. In 2018 she turned Senior and competed in the Elite Pan-American Track Champs, placing 5th, 6th & 7th in a field with world class riders such as Valente (USA), Beveridge (Can), Salazar (Mex). Alongside her on-bike tenacity and toughness is a lively and enthusiastic personality that has led to her being the Junior Ambassador for PedalSure , with senior international riders Alex Dowsett and Andy Tennant. Amber also assisted with promotion of the WATTBIKE ATOM
Amber is now based at the UCI Centre in Aigle Switzerland under the experienced eye of Craig Maclean and riding internationally for Barbados. I think Amber will go far, or go fast, or probably both © John Wann, CyclingCoach
Amber is being supported by PowerhouseFitness, AffinityCycles USA, Wattbike, Pedalsure and Bunn Leisure. We are grateful to all these sponsors, who have provided support for Ambers development, alongside support from Barbados Cycling, Barbados Olympic Assoc and ODA & RSR coaches at British Cycling. Finally all the wonderful race organisers, commissaires, UCI officials and other riders who have helped Amber - you know who you are!
2019 Results Update (Yellow=track; Blue = Road/Circuits)
UCI World Championships Scratch Race: 7th
UCI World Championships Points Race: 11th
UCI CL1 France; Pursuit 3rd; Scratch 4th; Omnium 8th
2018 Results Update (Yellow=track; Blue = Road/Circuits)
UCI CL1 Gretchen, Dec, Scratch 7th; Omnium 10th
UCI CL1 Portugal, Dec, U23 Points 4th; Omnium 14th
UCI CL1 Geneva, Nov, Scratch 3rd; Omnium 11th; Points 13th.
UCI World Cup, Canada Scratch 20th; Omnium 23rd
UCI World Cup, Paris. Scratch 13th, Points 23rd.
Elite Pan-Am Track Championship, Aguacalientes
Scratch Race: 5th: Silver medal in Caribbean Championship
Omnium: 6th: Gold medal in Caribbean Championship
Points Race: 7th: Silver medal in Caribbean Championship
UCI CL1: U23 Scratch Race GER: 1st
Pro-Am Omnium 19/6 Elim 1st; Points 1st; Overall 2nd
UCI Madison, T-Town USA 15/6/18: 1st (with Christina Birch)
UCI Scratch Race T-Town USA: 9th
Pro-Am 12/6 Scratch 1st; Pro-Am Points 1st; Pro-Am 'Snowball' 2nd
Pro-Am Tempo: 2nd; Pro-Am Win-out 2nd
UCI Women's Omnium USA Sprint GP, T-Town:8/6/18: 4th
BC National Women's Omnium 5/5/18 R1 1st
Commonwealth Games Points Race 6/4/18 15th
Commonwealth Games Scratch Race 5/4/18 16th
Copenhagen 6-Day 1-4/2/18:
General-Classification 3rd (with Anita Stenberg)
Madison (with Anita): 4th
Scratch 4k: 3rd
Scratch 3k : 4th
UCI International Meeting Belgium 27-28/1/18:
Scratch 11th; Omnium 13th;
Revolution UCI Elite 6/1/18: Scratch Race 7th.
2017 Results Update
Revolution UCI Elite 2/12/17 Scratch Race: 4th
Caribbean RR Champs 5/11/17: GOLD
Caribbean TT Champs 4/11/17: Silver
GP Vienna UCI Elite 12/10/17
Scratch 14th; Omnium 6th; Points 10th
National Women's Omnium R5 23/9/17 1st
Dave Creasy 2-Day Omnium 9-1/9/17 1st
Scratch 1st; FlyingLap 1st; Elim 1st; Pursuit 1st;
500 1st; Points 1st; Madison (with Gaby Homer) 1st
Junior World Track Championships
Omnium: 9th; Points Champ 11th
National Women's Omnium R4 12/8/17 1st
Junior Pan-American Track Championships
JW Scratch 4th : Omnium - Silver : Points Race - GOLD
Bournemouth Arrowfest 8/7/17 1st
Thruxton Crit 9 (E/1/2/3) 4/7/17: 1st
UCI Grand Prix Poland 30/6/17
Omnium: 6th; Points: 6th
National Women's Omnium R2 3/6/17 1st
National Women's Omnium R1 28/5/17 1st
Thruxton Crit 5 (E/1/2/3) 30/5/17: 1st
Thruxton Crit 4 (E/1/2/3) 23/5/17: 2nd
Full Gas Crit 2 (E/1/2/3) 19/4/17: 3rd
Thruxton Crit 1 (E/1/2/3) 18/4/17: 1st
Herne Hill Women's TL 15/4/17
Points Race: 1st
Scratch Race: 1st
SSCU Good Friday Track Meet 14/4/17
Elimination Race: 1st
Points Race: 1st
Scratch Race: 3rd
Overall Series Winner Icebreaker Series
Icebreaker 3 Junior Omnium 26/2/17: 1st
Junior Scratch Race 1st
Elimination 1st
Points 1st
Overall Series Winner Milton Keynes Series
Milton Keynes Crit 4 (E/1/2/3) 25/3/17: 2nd
Milton Keynes Crit 3 (E/1/2/3) 18/3/17: 1st
Milton Keynes Crit 2 (E/1/2/3) 11/3/17: 1st
Milton Keynes Crit 1 (E/1/2/3) 4/3/17: 3rd
Icebreaker 2 Junior Omnium 26/2/17: 3rd
Icebreaker 1 Junior Omnium 29/1/17: 1st
Junior Scratch Race 1st
Elimination 1st
Points (23/25pts) 1st
"Next Generation" Junior Int Meet Apeldoorn 8/1/17
Junior W Points Race 4th
Junior W Scratch 5th
Junior W Tempo 5th
Junior W Elimination 10th
, Dec, U23 Points 4th; Omnium 14th
UCI CL1 Geneva, Nov, Scratch 3rd; Omnium 11th; Points 13th.
UCI World Cup, Canada Scratch 20th; Omnium 23rd
UCI World Cup, Paris. Scratch 13th, Points 23rd.
Elite Pan-Am Track Championship, Aguacalientes
Scratch Race: 5th: Silver medal in Caribbean Championship
Omnium: 6th: Gold medal in Caribbean Championship
Points Race: 7th: Silver medal in Caribbean Championship
UCI CL1: U23 Scratch Race GER: 1st
Pro-Am Omnium 19/6 Elim 1st; Points 1st; Overall 2nd
UCI Madison, T-Town USA 15/6/18: 1st (with Christina Birch)
UCI Scratch Race T-Town USA: 9th
Pro-Am 12/6 Scratch 1st; Pro-Am Points 1st; Pro-Am 'Snowball' 2nd
Pro-Am Tempo: 2nd; Pro-Am Win-out 2nd
UCI Women's Omnium USA Sprint GP, T-Town:8/6/18: 4th
BC National Women's Omnium 5/5/18 R1 1st
Commonwealth Games Points Race 6/4/18 15th
Commonwealth Games Scratch Race 5/4/18 16th
Copenhagen 6-Day 1-4/2/18:
General-Classification 3rd (with Anita Stenberg)
Madison (with Anita): 4th
Scratch 4k: 3rd
Scratch 3k : 4th
UCI International Meeting Belgium 27-28/1/18: