Kristian House (born 6 October 1979 in

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, England) is a British former

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who rode for the team from 2008 to 2015, and joined in 2016. He was the 2009 British Road Race Champion. He has raced in Europe and Australia. He rode for Great Britain in

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track events. In 2006, he rode for the team and in 2007 he signed for . Kristian House was born in Britain but moved to the United States as a child, growing up initially in

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and then

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, where he began racing as a junior. At 17 he began racing in

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, where he stayed for two-and-a-half years. He was selected for the Great Britain Under-23 squad at the

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and

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, although he did not compete in 2000 after crashing out of Paris-Tours at the same corner as

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. After considering retiring from the sport at the age of 23 due to not securing a professional contract, he joined the Team GB track endurance squad after being introduced to team coach Simon Jones by

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, the manager of the British road team. After representing Britain in road and track world championships, he concentrated on road-racing in 2006 after joining the Recycling.co.uk team, now managed by Herety, and won ten races in Europe and

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. They included Ireland's

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, where he overhauled

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. After one year with the American

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Navigators, House returned to the UK to link up with Herety again at . In 2009 House became national road race champion in

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, having finished in the top five six times previously: initially joining the breakaway to provide anticipated support to his planned team leaders for the race,

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and

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, House was part of a trio alongside Dan Lloyd and

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that caught race leader

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with 800 metres to go, before House won the sprint for the line. He remained with the Rapha Condor team until 2016, when he joined . In April 2017 he announced that he would retire from competition at the end of the season. In December of that year, JLT-Condor announced that House would be rejoining the team for the following year, taking up a role as the team's performance manager. House was granted the

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in 2014.

Major results

;2000 : 1st Stars of Tomorrow Road Race : 1st Essen–Diksmuide : 1st Tielt : 1st Wervik : 1st Hollian : 2nd Geluveld : 2nd Westkerke : 3rd Poperinge : 3rd Leke–Diksmuide ;2001 : 1st Nieuwekerken : 1st Rumbeke : 1st GP Harelbeke : 1st Boezinge : 2nd Chase Classic ;2002 : 1st Overall Surrey 5-Day ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd National Individual Pursuit Championships : 3rd Castletown criterium : 5th

Manx Trophy The Manx Trophy or Isle of Man International Road Race is a bicycle road race run annually on the Isle of Man. In the 1960s the race attracted the world's top professional cyclists including Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. Th ...

: 9th Havant International GP ;2003 : 1st Stage 6b

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually ...

: 1st Western Australia Criterium Championships : 1st Eemegem : 2nd Castle criterium : 2nd Dougland criterium : 2nd Geeling – Botanic Gardens criterium : 3rd Armadale criterium : 3rd Nieuwekerken : 3rd National Madison Championships : 4th Overall Tour of Queensland : 5th

;2004 : 2nd ECCA Festival senior road race : 3rd Port Arlington Bay criterium : 10th Overall Tour of Queensland ;2005 : 1st Bendigo criterium : 1st Kortrijk GP : 1st Overall Tour of the South : 1st KOM Cranbourne Chase stage race : 2nd Omloop Van De Grensstreek : 2nd GP Dadizele : 2nd Ingelmunster : 3rd Guildford Criterium ;2006 : 1st jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 6 (TTT) : 1st Overall Girvan cycle race ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Lincoln GP : 1st Stage 3

Tour de Bretagne Cycliste Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, also known as the Tour de Bretagne trophée des granitiers and formerly known as Ruban Granitier Breton, is an annual early season professional road bicycle racing, cycling stage race held in late April and early May i ...

: 8th Overall

Boucles de la Mayenne The Boucles de la Mayenne is a road bicycle race held annually in the Mayenne department and Pays de la Loire region in France. It was first held in 1975 and from 2006 until 2019, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race b ...

: 8th Overall

Tour of Southland The Tour of Southland is a road bicycle racing stage race held in the Southland region of New Zealand. From 2005 until 2009, the Tour of Southland has been part of the UCI Oceania Tour however the 2010 event was held as a National Tour. The To ...

::1st Stage 9 ;2008 : 2nd East Yorkshire Classic : 2nd Overall

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: 7th Overall

Grand Prix Cycliste de Gemenc The Gemenc Grand Prix is a cycling race held annually in Hungary. It was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UC ...

: 9th Overall

Tour du Loir-et-Cher The Tour du Loir-et-Cher is a cycling stage race that takes place in the Loir-et-Cher region of France. The race traditionally starts and finishes in the capital of Blois. Since at least 2009, the final stage has consisted of a 12-lap circuit ra ...

;2009 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Rochdale Grand Prix Circuit Race : 6th Overall Mi-Août Bretonne : 6th Overall Girvan Three Day ::1st Points classification : 10th Overall

Tour of Britain The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after the S ...

;2010 : 1st Day 2 La Primavera at Lago Vista : 1st Stage 6

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: 1st Richmond GP : 3rd Overall Mi-Août Bretonne ;2011 : 1st Overall Tour of South Africa ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 5

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: 2nd Grand Prix des Marbriers : 3rd Roy Thame Cup : 6th Road race, National Road Championships ;2012 : 1st

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Stage

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: 1st

Mountains classification

: 3rd Lincoln GP : 6th

Tobago Cycling Classic The Tobago Cycling Classic is a one-day road bicycle race held annually in Tobago, the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean. Created in 1986, at the beginning of October, for many yea ...

;2013 : 1st

Stage

: 5th Overall

: 6th Road race, National Road Championships : Overall Combativity award,

;2014 : 1st

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 ...

: 1st Sheffield Grand Prix : 1st Prologue (TTT)

Mzansi Tour The Mzansi Tour is a staged cycling race held annually in South Africa. It is part of UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste International ...

;2015 : 1st Milk Race : 1st Round 4 – Motherwell,

: 5th Grand Prix des Marbriers ;2016 : 1st Stage 3

New Zealand Cycle Classic The New Zealand Cycle Classic (previously known as the Tour of Wellington) is a road cycling race held in and around the Wairarapa near Wellington, New Zealand. The race is a men's competition over five stages and part of the UCI Oceania Tour ...

: 1st Stage 7

Tour de Korea The Tour de Korea is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in South Korea since 2000 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It was rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race between 2005 and 2013, then promot ...

References

External links

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