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He has indeed. level 3 IIRC
As for coaches who've coached riders that have gone on to "better" things, In some cases, it's usually more a reflection on the rider than the coach IME. A good young rider with a few outside influences, such as BC talent team etc, won't suddenly be made a bad rider by thier club coach if he/she isn't up to standard. It's a club coach's role to encourage and facilitate participation at all levels rather that "train" individual riders.
For example, I know of some currently very successful GB riders who in the past have been coached by people with poor knowledge of exercise physiology and training principle. It's in spite of, rather than because of, this coaching that they went on to achieve so much.
As I say though, that's in some, not all, cases. YMMV