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Matt Postle
Matthew Postle (born 1970) is a Welsh racing cyclist, from Newport, Wales. He won stage 3 of the Milk Race in 1993, he also held the King of the Mountains jersey in the Tour of Malaysia for 6 days in 1997. He represented Wales at the 1990, 1994 and the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Palmarès ;1990 :7th Team Time Trial, Commonwealth Games (NZL) :15th Road Race, Commonwealth Games (NZL) ;1991 :1st Bristol Grand Prix (ENG) :7th Stanco Exhibitions Three-Day (WAL) ::1st Stage 2, Stanco Exhibitions Three-Day (WAL) ;1993 :1st Stage 3, Milk Race ;1994 :1st Manx Time Trial :2nd British National 100km Team Time Trial Championships (with Glenn Holmes, Rod Ellingworth & Darren Knight) :4th Team Time Trial, Commonwealth Games (CAN) :8th Road Race, Commonwealth Games (CAN) ;1995 :5th British National Road Race Championships :3rd Stage 2, Tour of Lancashire, Premier Calendar ;1996 :3rd Stage 2, Tour of Lancashire, Premier Calendar ;1998 :17th Time Trial, Commonwealth Games The Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Wales
Newport ( cy, Casnewydd; ) is a city and Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. With a population of 145,700 at the 2011 census, Newport is the third-largest authority with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Wales, and seventh List of Welsh principal areas, most populous overall. Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area. Newport was the site of the last large-scale armed insurrection in Great Britain, the Newport Rising of 1839. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman Britain, Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the borough. Newport gained its first Municipal charter, charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century when its port became the focus of Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
