Evan Oliphant (born 8 January 1982) is a

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bicycle racer from

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, 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

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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

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: 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 road bicycle race for Men and Women around Consett and Edmunbyers Derwent Reservoir, Northumberland in the north of England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the Unite ...

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

: 8th Beaumont Trophy ;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

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: 1st Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 1st Hugh Dornan Memorial ;2014 : 1st Road race, Scottish National Road Championships : 6th Beaumont Trophy : 6th Eddie Soens Memorial : 7th

Newport Nocturne The Shropshire Star Newport Nocturne is Britain's first Floodlights (sport), flood lit road bicycle race and is biennially held in Newport, Shropshire. The race was first run in 1970 at a distance of . The race was first run as a night race under ...

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

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