Personal information | |
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Full name | Yanto Alexander Critchlow-Barker |
Born | Carmarthen, Wales | 6 January 1980
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur teams | |
1998 | Mid Devon Cycling Club |
2001–2002 | VC Roubaix |
2003 | CC Etupes |
2003 | MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin (stagiaire) |
2009 | Colnago Team |
2017 | Le Col |
Professional teams | |
2000 | Linda McCartney Racing Team |
2005–2006 | Driving Force Logistics |
2010–2011 | Pendragon Sports/Le Col/Colnago Team [1] |
2012–2013 | Team UK Youth |
2014 | Team Raleigh |
2015–2016 | ONE Pro Cycling |
Yanto Alexander Critchlow-Barker (born 6 January 1980) is a British former professional racing cyclist from Wales, who was the highest placed Briton in the 2005 Tour of Britain, coming ninth in the general classification. [2]
Born in Carmarthen [3] [4] and despite starting racing late at the age of 15, joining the Mid-Devon Cycling Club, Barker was successful in the junior ranks (aged 16–18). Having won the Junior British National Road Race Championships, he was selected to ride the Junior Road Race World Championships where he finished 11th. [5]
When Barker joined the senior ranks at the age of 19, he was selected to represent Britain as part of the National U23 team, and was paid. He moved to Manchester to be closer to the track and the medical & coaching team. He competed in the Under-23 road races at the UCI Road World Championships in 1999, 2001 and 2002, taking his best finish in 2002 when he crossed the line in 12th place. [6]
By 2000, there was less money available for cyclists such as Barker[ citation needed ] and, following the advice of a coach, he moved to France at the age of 20 to gain experience of continental racing. [4] He represented Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
He initially retired from professional cycling in 2007, returning to live in Devon but returned to cycling in 2010 to ride for the Pendragon Sports / Le Col / Colnago Team. Barker signed for Team UK Youth for 2012. [7]
In 2013, Barker won the inaugural edition of the 200-kilometre (120-mile) UCS Ipswich and Coastal GP when sprinting clear on an eight-man group containing Mike Northey and Rob Partridge.
It was announced in November 2013 that Barker had signed for Team Raleigh for 2014. [8] After one season with Raleigh Barker was announced as the leader of the new ONE Pro Cycling team for the 2015 season. [9] In September 2016 Barker announced that he would retire at the end of the season. [10]
He lived in Wales as a child but later moved to Devon. He runs his own cycling clothing company called Le Col, which became a co-title sponsor of the Team Wiggins Le Col UCI Continental team for 2019. [11] Le Col has provided the cycling kit for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe since the start of the 2022 season. [12]
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