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2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour
The 2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour was the sixth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 11 October 2009 with the Herald Sun Tour and ended on 31 January 2010 with the Tour of Wellington. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Peter McDonald (cyclist), Peter McDonald of Australia was the defending champion of the 2008–09 UCI Oceania Tour. Michael Matthews (cyclist), Michael Matthews of Australia was crowned as the 2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows: * Multi-day events: 2.HC, 2.1 and 2.2 * One-da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Oceania Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania) are ranked below the UCI World Tour. UCI Africa Tour Winners There is a rolling ranking for individuals and countries (the total of the top eight ranked riders of the nation), for which points can be won in all UCI road events, regardless of where the races take place. Prior to 2019 there was also a team ranking, and in all three categories points were earned in continental races of category HC or below (1.1 and 2.1 or below from 2020) that took place in Africa, regardless of the nationality of the rider. UCI America Tour Winners There is a rolling ranking for individuals and countries (the total of the top eight ranked riders of the nation), for which points can be won in all UCI road events, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Ginn
Drew Cameron Ginn Order of Australia, OAM (born 20 November 1974) is an Australian five-time world champion Rowing (sport), rower, a four time Olympian and triple Olympic gold medallist. From 1995 to 1998 he was a member of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome. Club and state rowing Ginn was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne where he took up rowing. His senior club rowing was done from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. His first state selection for Victoria came in the 1993 youth eight contesting the Noel Wilkinson Trophy in the Interstate Regatta at the Australian Rowing Championships. He rowed again in the Victorian youth eight in 1994, this time to victory in the Interstate Regatta. On twelve occasions between 1995 and 2008 he was selected in the Victorian senior men's eight to contest the King's Cup (rowing), King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. Eight of those Victorian eights saw King's Cup (rowing), King's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endura Racing
Endura Racing () was a British UCI Continental cycling team. History Endura Racing were a UCI Continental licensed professional road racing team owned by Endura, a Scottish cycling clothing company owned by the Pentland Group. The team rode senior professional events in the UCI Europe Tour and British domestic competitions. The team's UCI Continental status did not allow it to ride in the Grand Tours or UCI World Tour races. In 2013 the team merged with the German-based Pro Continental team, Team NetApp - becoming Team NetApp-Endura. Major wins ;2011 : Overall Tour de Normandie, Alexandre Blain ::Stage 7, Alexandre Blain :Overall Cinturón a Mallorca, Iker Camano ::Stage 2, Iker Camano :Stage 2 Tour de Bretagne, René Mandri :Stage 4 Tour of Norway, Iker Camano :Stage 1 Czech Cycling Tour, Team Time Trial :Preston Grand Prix, Ian Wilkinson :Stage 2 Tour of Utah, Jack Bauer :Overall Cinturó de l'Empordà, Paul Voss ::Stage 1, Paul Voss ;2012 : Overall Tour Méditerrané ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fly V Australia
The Fly V Australia () was an Australian road cycling team. The team was sponsored by Australia airline V Australia, and competed on the UCI Continental Tour. Riders on the team included Jonathan Cantwell, Bernard Sulzberger, Henk Vogels Hendricus "Henk" Vogels (born 31 July 1973, in Perth) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer who retired from competition at the end of the 2008 season, riding with the Toyota–United Pro Cycling Team. He won the Australian ..., David Kemp and David Tanner. The team found some success in the USA. References Cycling teams based in Australia UCI Continental Teams (Oceania) Cycling teams established in 2009 Cycling teams disestablished in 2011 Defunct cycling teams based in Australia {{Australia-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Phinney
Taylor Carpenter-Phinney (born June 27, 1990) is an American retired professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the , and teams. Phinney specialized in time trials on the road as well as the individual pursuit on the track, winning the world title in the discipline in 2009 and 2010. Early life and amateur career Phinney was born on June 27, 1990, to former professional road cyclist and Olympic medal-winner Davis Phinney and former Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist and speed skater Connie Carpenter-Phinney. In 2007 at the age of 16, Phinney began racing on Team Slipstream's junior squad. Slipstream team manager Jonathan Vaughters signed Phinney to the team before he had competed in a race, having heard word-of-mouth reports about Phinney's ability on group rides in Boulder. It was at this time that Phinney was introduced to track cycling. In August 2007, he won the World Junior Championships time trial title. Since then, Phinney ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Feillu
Romain Feillu (born 16 April 1984) is a French former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2019. He is the older brother of Brice Feillu, who also competed professionally as a cyclist. Career Feillu was born in Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir. In August 2005, Feillu joined as a trainee ( stagiaire) and impressed his team managers, resulting in a professional contract. During the 2006 season he won the Grand Prix Tours as well as the overall rankings of the Tour de la Somme. In 2007 he won a stage in the Tour de Luxembourg and the Circuit de l'Aulne. In that year he also made his Tour de France debut finishing three times in the top 10 in mass sprints. He withdrew after stage 8, which was the second mountain stage. Later that year he won the Tour of Britain and the late season Paris–Bourges. At the end of the 2009 season, he won the Grand Prix de Fourmies. He won this race again in 2010. Feillu joined for the 2014 season, after his previous team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Degenkolb
John Degenkolb (born 7 January 1989) is a German professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His biggest wins to date are the 2015 Milan–San Remo and the 2015 Paris–Roubaix, two of cycling's five Cycling monument, monuments. He is a winner of stages in all three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, with ten stages and the Points classification in the Vuelta a España, points classification at the Vuelta a España, one stage of the Giro d'Italia, and one stage in the Tour de France. In 2010 he won his first stage race, the Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23, and finished second in the under 23 race at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships. Degenkolb also took victory in the 2014 Gent–Wevelgem, the 2013 Vattenfall Cyclassics and was the overall winner of the 2012 UCI Europe Tour. Professional career HTC–Highroad (2011) In 2011, Degenkolb turned professional with the UCI World Tour squad, following in the footsteps of other notable s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Marshall (cyclist)
Matt Marshall may refer to: * Matt Marshall (politician), Washington state respresentative-elect * Matt Marshall (writer), writer on ''The Simpsons'' * Matt Marshall (golfer) Matt Marshall (born March 22, 1985) is an American professional golfer from Carlton, Oregon. He made the cut at the 2016 U.S. Open. He qualified for the Open by way of a playoff in sectional qualifying. This was his first U.S. Open. Prior to ... (born 1985), American golfer See also * Matthew Marshall (1791–1873), chief cashier of the Bank of England {{hndis, Marshall, Matt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukiya Arashiro
is a Japanese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career Born in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Arashiro was the Japanese Under-23 National Time Trial and Road Race Champion in 2005. He has also won the Japanese National Road Race Championships three times, in 2007, 2013 and 2022. In 2009 he was selected by his team to ride the Tour de France. Along with Fumiyuki Beppu, he was the first Japanese national to complete that race, as on prior occasions Kisso Kawamuro and Daisuke Imanaka had started, but not finished, the race. By finishing the 2010 Giro d'Italia, he became the first Japanese person to finish two Grand Tour events. He recorded a third-place stage finish on the fifth stage, behind breakaway companions Jérôme Pineau and Julien Fouchard. He completed his third Tour de France in 2012 in 84th place—the highest placing of a Japanese person at that time—and earned the most combative award on Stage 4. He participated in the men's road race at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Bauer (cyclist)
Hans Jacob Bauer (born 7 April 1985) is a New Zealand former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023. Early life Bauer was raised in a remote area of New Zealand called Parapara near the township of Tākaka in Golden Bay. In 2003, Bauer began his tertiary studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, whilst residing at Aquinas College in his first year. He was a nationally ranked mountain biker at the time. Whilst there, he was also often seen around the Dunedin Music scene playing his bass guitar in a band called Dream Farm. In 2006, Bauer earned his bachelor's degree in Physical Education from Otago University in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Bauer then worked as a cycle courier in Wellington for a year. Career Bauer moved to Ghent in 2009. He raced in amateur races and as a result obtained a contract with Endura Racing. While riding for , Bauer won the 2010 New Zealand National Road Race Championships. In a sprint fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Cantwell
Jonathan Cantwell (8 January 1982 – 6 November 2018) was an Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2014 for the Jittery Joe's, , and teams. During his career, Cantwell won a stage of the Herald Sun Tour, and two stages of the Tour de Taiwan. In 2011, he won the Australian National Criterium Championships. Career Cantwell joined for the 2012 season. Cantwell made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as a lead-out man for the team's sprinter, Juan José Haedo; Cantwell took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished sixth on the stage. He finished 137th overall in the Tour. Cantwell left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season. At the end of the 2014 season, Cantwell retired from professional cycling, in order to take up duathlon and triathlon. He competed at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Series. Illness and death In 2017, Cantwell revealed that he had unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thor Hushovd
Thor Hushovd (born 18 January 1978) is a Norwegian former professional road bicycle racer. He is known for sprinting and time trialing; Hushovd is a three-time Norwegian National Road Race Championships, Norwegian national road race champion (2004, 2010, 2013), and was the winner of the 2010 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, 2010 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, World Road Race Championships. He was the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France, and first Scandinavian to win the road race in cycling UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, world road championship. He is also the Scandinavian with the most stage wins in Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. He is widely considered the greatest Norwegian cyclist of all time. He retired in September 2014. Career Born in Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway, Thor won the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Tours before turning professional i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
