Edward Laverack (born 27 July 1994) is a British cyclist and YouTuber from Wales. Predominantly a climber, Laverack rode professionally between 2013 and 2019 for

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s and , and he was the winner of the 2019 British National Hill Climb Championships.

Career

Born in

Llanelli ; ) is a market town and community (Wales), community in Carmarthenshire and the Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is on the estuary of the River Loughor and is the largest town in the Principal areas of Wales, ...

, Laverack attended Bryngwyn Comprehensive School (). At the age of 14 he was inspired to have a go at cycling having witnessed

Nicole Cooke Nicole Denise Cooke, MBE (born 13 April 1983) is a Welsh former professional road bicycle racer and Commonwealth, Olympic and World road race champion. At Beijing in 2008 she became the first British woman to win a Gold Olympic medal in any ...

's performance at the

2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fr ...

. Having started racing at the age of 17 with Bynea Cycling Club in 2011, Laverack joined British

in 2013. The following year he won the under-23 race at the

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, finishing 13th overall. He moved to UCI continental team for the 2019 season, and won the British National Hill Climb Championships later that year in Haytor Vale,

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, setting a new course record in the process. He returned to the podium in 2023, finishing second to Andrew Feather on The Struggle in

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Major results

Source: ;2014 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2016 : 10th Overall

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 ...

;2019 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

National Hill Climb Championships ;2023 : 2nd National Hill Climb Championships

References

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