Personal information | |
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Full name | Lorna jo Webb |
Born | |
Amateur team(s) | |
Bromsgrove Olympique Cycling Club | |
Professional team(s) | |
2002 | Team PowerBar |
2003 | Life Repair Group Pro Cycling Team |
2006 | Team FBUK |
2007 | Rapha - Condor [1] |
Lorna Webb (born 26 May 1983) [1] is an English professional cyclist from Walsall, West Midlands, born in Runcorn. She represented Great Britain twice at the World Championships in Plouay and Lisbon as a junior. [2]
Walsall is a large industrialised market town in the West Midlands. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Birmingham, 6 miles (10 km) east of Wolverhampton and 9 miles (14 km) from Lichfield.
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England after Greater London. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The county itself is a NUTS 2 region within the wider NUTS 1 region of the same name. The county consists of seven metropolitan boroughs: the City of Birmingham, the City of Coventry and the City of Wolverhampton, as well as the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall.
Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in Halton, Cheshire, in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region. Its population in 2011 was 61,789. The town is on the southern bank of the River Mersey, where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. Directly to the north across the River Mersey is the town of Widnes, upstream and 8 miles (12.9 km) to the northeast is the town of Warrington, and downstream and 16 miles (26 km) to the northwest is the city of Liverpool.
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