Waylon Woolcock

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Waylon Woolcock
Personal information
Full nameWaylon Woolcock
NicknameWay
Born (1982-07-08) 8 July 1982 (age 42)
Middelburg, South Africa
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current team USN Purefit
DisciplineMTB
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2001Omega
2002-2003Minolta
2004-2005Tuks Aerosud
2006Microsoft
Professional teams
2007-2008MTN
2009-2010Medscheme
2011-2012Bonitas [1]
2011-2013RE:CM
2014Cannondale Blend
2015Blend Red-E
Major wins
Tour d'Egypte
JoBerg2c
MTN Crater Cruise
Cape Pioneer Trek
Sani2c

Waylon Woolcock (born 8 July 1982 in Middelburg) is a South African professional mountain biker, riding for Team RE:CM [2] Woolcock started cycling as a road rider at the age of 15 and turned professional at the age of 19. In 2007, he won his first major cycling tour, Tour d'Egypte. In 2008 he finished second in the South African National Road Race Championship. In 2011 to 2013, Woolcock took to mountain biking and in those years he won the JoBerg2c mountain bike stage race once and 2nd twice including nine stage wins in total. [3] Woolcock's latest achievements are the MTN Crater Cruise Ultra Marathon and Cape Pioneer Trek stage race.

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Achievements

2003
National Team Representation
Under-23 Tour of Berlin, Germany
2004
National Team Representation
Under-23 Tour of Berlin, Germany
Under-23 Turingen Rundfahrt, Germany
Under-23 World Championships, Italy
2005
National Team Representation
Tour d'Egypte
Tour of Qinghai Lakes, China
Tour of Senegal
2007
1st Stage 3 Tour du Maroc
1st Jock Cycle Classique
Tour d'Egypte
1st Overall General Classification
1st Stage 3
National Team Representation
Tour d'Egypte
Tour of Hainan, China
2008
2nd SA National Road Race Championships
1st Tour of Soweto
National Team Representation
Tour de Langkawi
2011
Sani2c
2nd Overall General Classification
1st Stage 3
JoBerg2c
1st Overall [3] General Classification
1st Stages 2,3,5,6,7 & 8
2012
JoBerg2c
2nd Overall General Classification
1st Stages 5 & 9
2013
JoBerg2c
2nd Overall General Classification
1st Stage 3
1st MTN Crater Cruise [4]
Cape Pioneer Trek
1st Overall [5] General Classification

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References

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