Kieran Page

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Kieran Page
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Page at the UK 2008 national road cycling championships, Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Personal information
Full nameKieran Hersey Page
Born (1983-05-02) 2 May 1983 (age 35)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Team information
DisciplineMountain Bike, Road & Track
RoleRider
Amateur team(s)
2001SP Systems/Wightlink RT
2004UVCA Troyes
Aug 2006-Dec 2006 Team L.P.R. ( stagiaire ) [1]
2007AVC Aix-en-Provence
2012-2013Sprinter Club de Nice [1]
Professional team(s)
2008 Pezula Racing

Kieran Page (born 2 May 1983) [2] is a British professional racing cyclist. He represented Britain at the junior road world championship in 2001, and competed in the Under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships in 2004 and 2005. [3]

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The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and as of 2012 Team Time Trials.

2004 UCI Road World Championships

The 2004 UCI Road World Championships took place in Verona, Italy, between September 27 and October 3, 2004. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.

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Page set a new Commonwealth record at the 2002 Commonwealth Games with 4:29:662 in the 4 km pursuit. The previous record was held by Brad McGee in 4:30:594, set in 1998. [4]

2002 Commonwealth Games 17th edition of the Commonwealth Games

The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002 were held in Manchester, England, from 25 July to 4 August 2002. The 2002 Games were to be hosted in the United Kingdom to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, head of the Commonwealth, and Manchester was selected for the 2002 Games ahead of London. The XVII Commonwealth Games was, prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics, the largest multi-sport event ever to be held in the UK, eclipsing the London 1948 Summer Olympics in numbers of teams and athletes participating. In terms of sports and events, the 2002 Games were the largest Commonwealth Games in history featuring 281 events across 17 sports.

Born in Newport on the Isle of Wight, Page now lives in Nice, France. He moved there in 2004, racing for the UVCA Troyes team. [5] Page was a member of British Cycling's World Class Performance Plan until 2006.

Newport, Isle of Wight county town of the Isle of Wight

Newport is a civil parish and the county town of the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. The civil parish had a population of 23,957 at the time of the 2001 census, which rose to 25,496 at the 2011 census. The town lies slightly to the north of the centre of the Island. It has a quay at the head of the navigable section of the River Medina, which flows northward to Cowes and the Solent.

Isle of Wight County and island of England

The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England. It is in the English Channel, between 2 and 5 miles off the coast of Hampshire, separated by the Solent. The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times, and is known for its mild climate, coastal scenery, and verdant landscape of fields, downland and chines.

Nice Prefecture and commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur, France

Nice is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of about 1 million on an area of 721 km2 (278 sq mi). Located in the French Riviera, on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille. Nice is approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the principality of Monaco and 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the French-Italian border. Nice's airport serves as a gateway to the region.

Palmarès

1999
1st Individual Time Trial, European Youth Summer Olympic Days [6]
1st Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Scratch race, British National Track Championships - Junior
2000
1st Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British National Road Race Championships - Junior
1st Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Pursuit, British National Track Championships - Junior
2nd Points race, British National Track Championships - Senior
2nd Kilo, British National Track Championships - Junior
2001
1st Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Pursuit, British National Track Championships - Junior
2nd British National Road Race Championships - Junior
3rd Kilo, British National Track Championships - Junior
2002
2nd Madison, British National Track Championships (with Kieran Page, SP Systems)
2003
2nd Team Pursuit, 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Round 3, Cape Town
2005
3rd Points race, British National Track Championships
2006
2nd Scratch race, British National Track Championships
2008
5th, Race 2 World View Challenge
8th, Overall FBD Insurance Ras

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References

  1. 1 2 Kieran Page at Cycling Archives
  2. Rob Burgess (19 September 2001). "British Cycling Names World Road Team". uksport.gov.uk.
  3. "Brits in the Under-23 World Road Race 1998-2007". Cycling Weekly . 23 September 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  4. "Commonwealth Games 2002: Yesterday at the games". The Independent. 31 July 2002.[ dead link ]
  5. "KIERAN PAGE HEADS FOR FRANCE FOR A SEASON ON THE ROAD". British Cycling. January 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-03-01.
  6. "European Youth Olympic Games, Road, ITT, Novices 1999". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 16 May 2015.