James H. Hibbard (born October 19, 1981 in
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
The city was es ...
) is an American
road racing cyclist who competed for the
Shaklee and
Health Net-Maxxis professional cycling Teams. He started racing at the
Hellyer Park Velodrome in
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popu ...
in 1995, and competed through 2005.
Hibbard was the Northern California/ Nevada State Track Cycling Champion at the junior and elite levels, and earned medals at the United States National Track Cycling Championships from 1996–1999 and again in 2001 and 2003. As a member of the United States National Team, he was a bronze medalist at Trinidad and Tobago's
Southern Games. Although a member of several UCI professional road cycling teams, Hibbard competed primarily as track cyclist.
Hibbard has been vocal in his support of drug-free sport. In July, 2002 he was profiled by Elliott Almond of the
San Jose Mercury News
''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...
. His correspondence with Irish Tour de France rider, and cycling journalist
Paul Kimmage about the problem of performance-enhancing drugs in professional cycling appeared in the preface to the 2007 edition of Kimmage's book ''
Rough Ride''.
Hibbard's memoir, ''
The Art of Cycling'' was published by
Quercus Books and was shortlisted for the 2022
British Sports Book Awards, in the cycling category.
Education
James studied philosophy at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of ...
.
References
External links
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*https://penvelo.org/a-look-back-james-hibbard/ ''Penvelo.org.'' Retrieved 10 September 2019.
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1981 births
Living people
American male cyclists
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