Eileen Roe (born 24 September 1989) is a Scottish former

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...

, who competed between 2008 and 2019, including for

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s , and . Roe was the winner of the 2014 and 2016 British National Circuit Race Championships.

Biography

Born in

Dunfermline Dunfermline (; , ) is a city, parish, and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. Dunfermline was the de facto capital of the Kingdom of Scotland between the 11th and 15th centuries. The earliest ...

, Roe began competitive cycling at the age of 10. She has been employed at the Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative on a part-time basis for several years, which allowed her the time to dedicate to her cycling career. In October 2014 the team announced that Roe would join them with immediate effect to ride in the Australian criterium season and the subsequent 2015 season. Roe joined Belgian team for the 2016 season. At the start of 2017, Roe became a member of the squad.

Major results

Source: ;2008 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

800m, National Grass Track Championships ;2012 : 1st Round 3, Johnson Health Tech Grand Prix Series, Colchester : 2nd

Criterium A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 400 m to 10,000 m. Overview Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time, ...

, National Road Championships : National Track Championships ::3rd Madison ::3rd

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;2013 : 2nd Overall Surf & Turf Weekend ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Points race, Revolution – Round 2, Glasgow : 3rd Road race, Scottish Road Championships ;2014 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series ::1st Round 2, Peterborough ::1st Round 5, Woking : 3rd Stan Siejka Launceston Cycling Classic ;2015 : 2nd

, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Rás na mBan ::1st Stage 6 : 2nd Women's Tour de Yorkshire : 2nd London Nocturne : 10th Marianne Vos Classic ;2016 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

, National Road Championships : 1st Round 1, Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series, Motherwell : Rás na mBan ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 6 : 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen : 9th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour

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