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1988 Tour Of Britain
The 1988 Tour of Britain was the second edition of the Kellogg's Tour of Britain cycle race and was held from 9 August to 14 August 1988. The race started in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle and finished in London. The race was won by Malcolm Elliott of the Fagor (cycling team, 1985–1989), Fagor team. Route General classification References {{Tour of Britain Tour of Britain, 1988 1988 in road cycling, Tour of Britain 1988 in British sport, Tour of Britain August 1988 sports events in the United Kingdom, Tour of Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Elliott
Malcolm Elliott (born 1 July 1961) is a former English professional cyclist, whose professional career has lasted from 1984 to 1997 when he retired and from 2003 up to 2011 when he made his comeback in British domestic racing. Known as a sprinter, his career includes three stages and the points classification in the Vuelta a España, two gold medals in the Commonwealth Games, and winning the amateur Milk Race and its professional version, the Kellogg's Tour. He rode and finished the Tour de France in 1987 and 1988. Elliott also competed at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1996. Early life and amateur career Elliott was brought up in the Wadsley area of Sheffield. He joined Rutland Cycling Club in Sheffield at 15 where he was selected for the British team for the world junior championship in Argentina in 1979. In 1980 riding for Rutland CC, Elliott won the British National Hill Climb Championships, beating Jeff Williams by one fifth of a second. He also raced for the UV Aube cycli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Demierre
Serge Demierre (born 16 January 1956) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila .... In 1983, Demierre won the Combativity award in the Tour de France, Combativity award and the 4th stage of the 1983 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race Championships, Swiss National Road Race champion in 1983. Major results ;1976 : National Amateur Road Race Championship ;1981 :Trofeo Baracchi (with Daniel Gisiger) ;1982 :Buch am Irchel ;1983 : National Road Race Championship :1983 Tour de France, Tour de France ::Winner stage 4 ::Winner Combativity award in the Tour de France, Combativity award ;1987 :Lausanne :Sion References External links *Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Webster
Darryl James Webster (born 7 May 1962) is a former English professional cyclist from Walsall. Cycling career He rode for Great Britain at the Olympic Games and won twenty three national championship titles. He also famously won a stage in the 1988 Nissan Classic from a 101-mile solo break. Webster has always claimed to be strongly against the use of drugs in sport, but in April 2013 he was caught growing cannabis worth £24,000. He represented England and competed in the 4,000 metres individual pursuit and won a bronze medal in the 4,000 metres team pursuit, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Palmarès ;1978 :1st GHS Schoolboy National TT 10 miles championship ;1980 :1st Overall National Junior Road Series :3rd Junior World Championships, Track, Team Pursuit ;1981 : 3rd British National Hill Climb Championships ;1982 :3rd Commonwealth Games, Track, Team Pursuit ;1983 : 5th Tour of the Cotswolds : 1st British National Hill Climb Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hoste
Frank Hoste (born 29 August 1955, in Ghent) is a retired Belgian racing cyclist, who won the points classification in the Tour de France in 1984 as well as three stage victories. Hoste was a professional cyclist from 1977 to 1991, then he started a bicycle factory. He rode in 13 grand tours throughout his career, eight times in the Tour de France and five times in the Giro d'Italia. All total he won five stages in the Tour de France and during the 1983 Giro d'Italia he came in the top 5 on eight different stages, one of which was a stage win. Major results ;1982 : Gent–Wevelgem : Belgian cycling road championship : Four Days of Dunkirk : 1982 Tour de France: 8th stage ;1983 : Giro d'Italia: Stage 16A : Tour de Suisse: Stages 1, 2 and 8 ;1984 : 1984 Tour de France ::Winner stages 1, 6 and 21 :: Winner of the Points classification : Grand Prix de Wallonie : Hasselt-Spa-Hasselt ;1985 : Giro d'Italia: Stage 6 ;1986 : 1986 Tour de France: Stage 15 : GP Kanton Aargau Gippingen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Roche
Stephen Roche (; born 28 November 1959) is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming the second of only two cyclists to win the Triple Crown of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia general classification, plus the World road race championship, the first was Eddy Merckx. Roche's rise coincided with that of fellow Irishman Sean Kelly. Although one of the finest cyclists of his generation and admired for his pedalling style, he struggled with knee injuries and never contended in the Grand Tours post-1987. He had 58 professional career wins. All of these wins still stand, despite Roche having been accused by an Italian judge of taking EPO in the later part of his career. Early life and amateur career On completion of his apprenticeship as a machinist in a Dublin dairy and following a successful amateur career in Ireland with the "Orwell Wheelers" club coached by Noel O'Neill of Dundrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Yates
Sean Yates (born 18 May 1960) is an English former professional cyclist and directeur sportif. Career Yates competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, finishing sixth in the 4,000m individual pursuit. As an amateur in 1980, he won the British 25-mile individual time trial championship, and took the national record for 10-mile time trials with 19m 44s. As an amateur Yates rode for Athletic Club Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, Europe's most successful sports club with fellow British riders Kevin Reilly from Southport, John Herety and Jeff Williams. Yates first race for the ACBB was the Grand Prix de Saint-Tropez which he won by riding off the front of the peloton. Yates won fifteen races in total for the ACBB and also finished third in the prestigious individual time trial Grand Prix des Nations which was won by Martial Gayant. Yates had developed a reputation as a strong time trialist and for an incredible turn of speed and power. He turned professional in 1982 for Peugeot riding al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Hanegraaf
Jacobus Johannes Henricus "Jacques" Hanegraaf (born 14 December 1960) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1981 to 1994. He twice won the Dutch title in the men's road race (1981 and 1985). His other major wins include the 1984 Amstel Gold Race. Hanegraaf later became a cycling manager, first for and later for Team Bianchi and Unibet.com. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1980 :Ronde van Midden-Nederland ;1981 :Maastricht : Dutch National Road Race Championship :'s Heerenhoek :Maastricht-Amby ;1982 :Grand Prix of Aargau Canton :Galder :Paris–Brussels ;1983 :Zwevezele ;1984 :Acht van Chaam :Amstel Gold Race :Rotterdam :Zuiddorpe :Made :Ede :Meerssen :Diemen :1984 Tour de France: ::Winner intermediate sprints classification ::Wearing yellow jersey for two days ;1985 :Breda :Elfstedenronde : Dutch National Road Race Championship :Zuiderzee Der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster
Westminster is an area of Central London, part of the wider City of Westminster. The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and much of the West End of London, West End shopping and entertainment district. The name ( ang, Westmynstre) originated from the informal description of the abbey church and royal peculiar of St Peter's (Westminster Abbey), west of the City of London (until the English Reformation there was also an Eastminster, near the Tower of London, in the East End of London). The abbey's origins date from between the 7th and 10th centuries, but it rose to national prominence when rebuilt by Edward the Confessor in the 11th. Westminster has been the home of Governance of England, England's government since about 1200, and from 1707 the Government of the United Kingdom. In 1539, it became a city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wegmüller
Thomas Wegmüller (born 28 September 1960) is a former Swiss racing cyclist. He rode in the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España, won a stage in the 1989 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and was named the Most Combative rider on the Champs-Élysées stage during the 1990 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1992. Major results ;1987 : 1st GP Lugano : 1st Kaistenberg Rundfahrt : 1st Stage 6 GP Tell : 2nd Tour du Nord-Ouest : 3rd Grand Prix de Mauléon-Moulins ;1988 : 1st Stage 5 Tour of Britain : 2nd Paris–Roubaix : 5th Grand Prix des Nations : 7th GP Ouest France-Plouay ;1989 : 1st Grand Prix de Wallonie : 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 2nd Grand Prix des Nations : 2nd Tour du Nord-Ouest : 3rd Overall Tour of Ireland : 5th GP Ouest France-Plouay : 5th Wartenberg Rundfahrt ;1990 : 1st Grand Prix des Nations : 1st Kaistenberg Rundfahrt : 1st Tour du Nord-Ouest : 2nd GP des Amériques : 3rd GP Ouest France-Plouay : 3rd Tre Valli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in South West England. The wider Bristol Built-up Area is the eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as (Old English: 'the place at the bridge'). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts. A major port, Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497, John Cabot, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Lammerts
Johan Lammerts (born 2 October 1960 in Bergen-op-Zoom, North Brabant) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1982 to 1992. His biggest success came in 1984, when he won the Tour of Flanders and the Ronde van Nederland. Lammerts also won the 20th stage in the 1985 Tour de France. Teams *1982: TI–Raleigh(Netherlands) *1983: TI–Raleigh(Netherlands) *1984: Panasonic (Netherlands) *1985: Panasonic (Netherlands) *1986: Vini Ricordi (Italy) *1987: Toshiba (France) *1988: Toshiba (France) *1989: AD Renting-Coors Light (Belgium) *1990: Z (France) *1991: Z (France) *1992: Z (France) Tour de France *1983 – 72nd *1985 – 75th *1988 – 130th *1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ... – 123rd References * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
