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Pezula Racing
Pezula Racing () were a UCI Continental cycling team registered in Ireland that participated predominantly in races on the UCI Europe Tour. The team was managed by Brian O'Loughlin with assistance from directeur sportif A ''directeur sportif'' (French for sporting director, although the original French term is often used in English-language media; plural ''directeurs sportifs'') is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is se ... David McQuaid. Their biggest wins were 2 stages in the 2008 Rás Tailteann It was announced in July 2008 that due to economic pressures in Ireland and the downturn in the construction industry, Pezula Construction would stop the sponsorship of the team. However, the directeur sportif David McQuaid has stepped in and his company DMC Sports Ireland will take over the sponsorship of the team. This was announced while the team were racing in Quinghai Lake, China. Major wins : East Midlands International Cicle Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Bicycle Racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a Handicapping, handicap) and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual time trial, individual riders or team time trial, teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively. Professional racing originated in Western Europe, centred in France, Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. Since the mid-1980s, the sport has diversified, with races held at the professional, semi-professional and amateur levels, worldwide. The sport is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). As w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Connor (cyclist)
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Defunct Cycling Teams Based In Ireland
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Alexander Wetterhall
Alexander Wetterhall (born 12 April 1986) is a Swedish road bicycle racer and mountain biker. Career Born in Gislaved, Wetterhall was born with dysmelia of his feet, which needed several surgeries to be corrected. He first competed as a professional in 2011, competing for prior to the squad's merger with for the 2013 season. He was the winner of the Swedish National Time Trial Championships in 2009, and 2016. Wetterhall is also a former winner of the Rás Tailteann, and the Ronde van Drenthe races. For the 2014 season, Wetterhall joined the new Firefighters Upsala CK team. In November 2014 he was announced as part of the squad for the new Swedish outfit for the 2015 season. Major results Source: ;2004 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Mountain Bike Championships ;2007 : 1st Team relay, National Mountain Bike Championships ;2008 : National Mountain Bike Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Cross-country ::3rd Team relay ;2009 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Petrie-Armstrong
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Kieran Page
Kieran Page (born 2 May 1983) is a British professional racing cyclist. He represented Britain at the junior road world championship in 2001, and competed in the Under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships in 2004 and 2005. Page set a new Commonwealth record at the 2002 Commonwealth Games with 4:29:662 in the 4 km pursuit. The previous record was held by Brad McGee in 4:30:594, set in 1998. Born in Newport on the Isle of Wight, Page now lives in Nice, France. He moved there in 2004, racing for the UVCA Troyes team. Page was a member of British Cycling's World Class Performance Plan until 2006. Palmarès ;1999 :1st Individual Time Trial, European Youth Summer Olympic Days :1st Scratch race, British National Track Championships - Junior ;2000 :1st British National Road Race Championships - Junior :1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships - Junior :2nd Points race, British National Track Championships - Senior :2nd Kilo, British National Track Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Jennings
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Martyn Irvine
Martyn Irvine (born 6 June 1985) is a Northern Ireland-born former cyclist, who competed professionally between 2008 and 2017 for the Pezula Racing, Planet X, , , and teams, and rode at the 2012 Olympic Games. He was also a directeur sportif for the team. Irvine is a 7-time Irish national track and road cycling champion cyclist, who represented the Irish National track team in the Omnium event at the World Cup Classics, and was world champion in the scratch race in 2013. He was UCI World Ranked 17th at the end of the inaugural 2010/11 Omnium season, with 315 ranking points. Career He signed with the UCI Asia based for the 2011 season. After the 2012 London World Cup event, he had 470 ranking points. He qualified for the Omnium event at the London Olympics where he finished 13th. UnitedHealthcare (2013–2014) In November 2012, Irvine signed a contract to ride with the team for the 2013 season. In February 2013 he won gold at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Healion
Paul Healion (3 June 1978 - 16 August 2009) was an Irish racing cyclist from Dunboyne, County Meath. In 2000 and 2008 he was the National Time Trial Champion. In 2001 he won his first National Criterium Championships. He won the event again in 2009 during a spell of superb form. Healion died on the evening of 16 August 2009 after his car, in which he was alone, crashed near Ardee, County Louth. He leaves a widow, Ann. He had been due to ride the Tour of Ireland stage race the following weekend as part of the Irish Cycling Team. Major results ;1998 *3rd, Irish National Time-trial (10 mile) Championship (CN) ;2000 *1st, Irish National Time-trial Championship (CN) ;2001 *1st, Irish National Criterium Championship (CN) ;2002 *5th, Irish National Time-trial Championship (CN) ;2003 *3rd, Irish National Time-trial Championship (CN) *5th, Irish National Criterium Championship (CN) ;2004 *1st, Irish National Elite Track Pursuit Championship (CN) *3rd, Irish National Criteriu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Fox (cyclist)
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Fredrik Ericsson (cyclist)
Fredrik Ericsson (born 18 September 1978) is a Swedish former professional road cyclist. He notably competed in the time trial at the 2008 UCI Road World Championships and won the Ringerike GP and the Swedish National Time Trial Championships the same year. Major results ;2003 : 1st Skandisloppet ;2004 : 9th Overall Ringerike GP ;2006 : 3rd Overall Ringerike GP : 9th De Drie Zustersteden ;2007 : 6th Overall Ringerike GP ;2008 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Ringerike GP : 2nd Univest Grand Prix : 4th Scandinavian Open Road Race : 10th GP Copenhagen : 10th Tartu Grand Prix ;2009 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd Time trial : 3rd Overall Ringerike GP : 4th Duo Normand : 5th Grand Prix Herning : 5th Scandinavian Race Uppsala : 6th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon : 6th Overall Okolo Slovenska : 6th Grand Prix Cristal Energie : 10th Overall Danmark Rundt Danmark Rundt is a Danish stage race for professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Connolly (cyclist)
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