Felix English (born 11 October 1992) is a professional cyclist from Brighton who rides for Ireland. English rides on the road and on the track. As a junior, he won five British national titles until he decided in 2010 to represent Ireland, the home country of his parents. In September 2010, he set a new Irish Junior record during a track meeting in Apeldoorn, 1:07.9 over 1000 metres. At the 2010 UEC European Track Championships, English surprisingly defeated Sir

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in the first round of the sprint event. In 2012, English won the fourth stage of the Irish Sea Tour of the North. Twice he started at

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. In 2012, he became Irish National Criterium Champion. In the same year he started to ride for the ''UCI Continental Team''

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and also for the Irish national Team. In 2013, English established himself as one of the leading criterium riders in the UK - taking victories in the British Elite Circuit Series and The Milk Race. In 2014, English showed his potential on the world stage taking 2nd in the first round of the Mitchelton Bay Criteriums and winning the overall sprinters jersey. He then went on to the heavily contested Jayco Herald Sun Tour where he took 4th place in the opening prologue - picking up the young rider leaders jersey - and taking 3rd place in the bunch sprint on stage 3. In November 2015 he was announced as a member of the squad for 2016.

Major results

;2010 :1st Stage 3 Isle of Man International Junior Tour :1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification Irish International Junior Tour ::1st Prologue ::1st Stage 6 ;2011 :2nd National U23 Time Trial Championship :3rd Imperial Winter Series Hillingdon :7th National Time Trial Championship ;2012 :1st MaillotIrlanda

National Criterium Championship :1st Stage 4 Sea Tour of the North :4th National U23 Time Trial Championship :5th Eddie Soens Memorial ;2013 :1st The Milk Race :1st British Cycling Elite Circuit Series Otley :3rd British Cycling Elite Circuit Series Colne :3rd East Yorkshire Classic Roadrace :3rd Overall British Elite Circuit Series, Great Britain :4th Pearl Izumi Tour Series Kirkcaldy :5th British Elite Circuit Series Sheffield :7th Boucles d'Artois Time Trial ;2014 :1st Pearl Izumi Tour Series TTT Stoke :1st Pearl Izumi Tour Series Aberystwyth :1st Pearl Izumi Tour Series Overall :2nd Geelong Bay Crits Round 1 :2nd Pearl Izumi Tour Series Redditch :2nd Jupiter London Nocturne :5th Eddie Soens Memorial :5th The Milk Race :5th Pearl Izumi Tour Series Peterborough :8th Pearl Izumi Tour Series Barrow :9th Pearl Izumi Tour Series Canary Wharf :10th Pearl Izumi Tour Series Stoke ;2015 :1st Beverley Grand Prix :3rd Colne Grand Prix :7th Otley Grand Prix ;2017 :

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