Evan Oliphant (born 8 January 1982) is a Scottish

bicycle racer Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling ...

from

Wick, Caithness Wick ( gd, Inbhir Ùige (IPA: �inivɪɾʲˈuːkʲə, sco, Week) is a town and royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay. "Wick Locality" had a population ...

, who currently rides for British amateur team Spartans Velo Club. He competed in the Under-23 road race at the

2004 UCI Road World Championships The 2004 UCI Road World Championships took place in Verona, Italy, between 27 September and 3 October 2004. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women. Events summary {{ ...

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. Oliphant represented

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on the track and in the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...

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on the road.

Major results

;2005 : 1st Road race, Scottish National Road Championships : 1st Warrnambool Criterium : 1st East Yorkshire Classic : 3rd 5 Valleys Road Race : 5th Shay Elliott Memorial Race ;2006 : 1st Overall Bay Crit Elite Criterium Series : 1st Kym Smoker Memorial Track Race : 3rd Road race, Scottish National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour Wellington ::1st Stage 4 : 4th

Points race A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men between 1984–2008 and for women 1996–2008. Starting in 2012, the points race is one of the omnium even ...

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

: 6th Bendigo Madison (with James McCallum) ;2007 : 1st Road race, Scottish National Road Championships ;2008 : 1st Road race, Scottish National Road Championships : 1st

Sea Otter Classic The Sea Otter Classic is a bicycling and outdoor sports festival and exposition held each spring since 1991 at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. The four-day event is considered the world's largest cycling festival, ...

: 2nd Overall Bikeline 2 Day ::1st Stage 2 : 6th Overall Girvan Stage Race : 6th Overall

Tour of the Reservoir The Tour of the Reservoir is a two-day road bicycle race around the Derwent Reservoir, Northumberland in the north of England, part of the British Premier Calendar The British Cycling Premier Calendar Road Race Series is a season-long compe ...

: 7th Grand Prix of Wales : 7th NRC Circuit Race : 10th Richmond Grand Prix ;2009 : 6th

: 8th

Beaumont Trophy The Beaumont Trophy is a cycle road race first run in 1952. The Trophy was presented to the Gosforth Road Club by Rex Beaumont who was a local cycle wholesaler on Tyneside. The Gosforth Road Club had been created in July 1951 as an offshoot of ...

;2010 : 1st Road race, Scottish National Road Championships : Dumfries Bike Fest ::4th Circuit race ::6th Grand Prix : 6th York Cycling City Centre Race : 10th

;2011 : 2nd Ryedale Grand Prix ;2012 : 2nd Road race, Scottish National Road Championships ;2013 : 1st Overall

Premier Calendar The British Cycling Premier Calendar Road Race Series is a season-long competition run by British Cycling. It comprises a series of road bicycle races for the country's top domestic road riders. Organisation and events In 2010 points were awar ...

: 1st Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 1st Hugh Dornan Memorial ;2014 : 1st Road race, Scottish National Road Championships : 6th

: 6th Eddie Soens Memorial : 7th Newport Nocturne : 10th Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 10th Cycle Wiltshire Grand Prix : 10th Lincoln Grand Prix : 10th Jersey International Road Race ;2015 : 1st Overall British Cycling Grand Prix Series ::5th Grand Prix of Wales ::10th Stafford Kermesse : 1st Crit on the Campus : 5th Stockton Grand Prix : 5th Hugh Dornan Memorial : 7th

Stafford GP __NOTOC__ The Stafford GP is a criterium cycle race held in the town of Stafford owned and organised by Leadout Cycling Ltd under the technical regulations of British Cycling. Since 2010 it has been part of British Cycling’s Elite Circuit Race ...

: 8th National Circuit Race Championships : 8th Colne Grand Prix : 9th Overall Totnes-Vire Stage Race

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliphant, Evan 1982 births Living people Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games People from Wick, Caithness Scottish male cyclists Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Highland (council area) Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games