Eileen Roe

Eileen Roe

Roe in 2015
Personal information
Full name Eileen Roe
Born (1989-09-24) September 24, 1989
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)[1]
Team information
Current team Lares-Waowdeals
Discipline Road & Track
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Professional team(s)
2012 Team Ibis Cycles
2013 Breast Cancer Care
2014 Starley-Primal
2014–2015 Wiggle–Honda
2016– Lares-Waowdeals
Infobox last updated on
9 January 2016

Eileen Roe (born 24 September 1989)[2] is a Scottish racing cyclist from High Valleyfield, Fife, the 2014 British National Circuit Race Champion.[3]

Biography

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 gives her the time to dedicate to her cycling career.[4] In October 2014 the Wiggle–Honda team announced that Roe would join them with immediate effect to ride in the Australian criterium season and the subsequent 2015 season.[5] Roe joined Belgian team Lares-Waowdeals for the 2016 season.[6]

Palmarès

2008
1st 800m British National Grass Track Championships
2012 – Team Ibis Cycles 2012 season
1st Round 3, Johnson Health Tech Grand Prix Series, Colchester[7]
2nd British National Circuit Race Championships
3rd British National Madison Championships
3rd British National Team Pursuit Championships
2013
2nd Overall Surf & Turf Weekend
1st Stage 3[8]
3rd Scottish National Road Race Championships[9]
2014
1st British National Circuit Race Championships
1st Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series[4]
1st Round 2, Peterborough[10]
1st Round 5, Woking[11]
3rd Stan Siejka Launceston Cycling Classic[12]
2015
2nd National Circuit Race Championships[13]
2nd Tour de Yorkshire[14]
2nd Overall Ras na mBan
1st Stage 6[15]
2016
3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen[16]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rider Profile". British Cycling. 2013-03-14.
  2. "Eileen Roe". Cycling Website.
  3. "Adam Blythe and Eileen Roe take national circuit race titles in Hull". Cycling Weekly. 2014-07-10.
  4. 1 2 "Our Cycling pro, Eileen Roe". Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative. 2012-11-07.
  5. "Eileen Roe joins Wiggle Honda in time for the Australian Criterium Season". Wiggle Honda. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  6. "News shorts: Prudhomme keen on 2017 Tour de France start in Germany". Cyclingnews.com. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  7. "Eileen Roe wins wet Colchester race in the Johnson Health Tech Grand Prix Series". British Cycling. 7 June 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  8. Whitehouse, Andrew (16 June 2013). "Road: Roberts wins overall at the Surf n Turf Weekend". British Cycling. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  9. Hazlett, Janette (29 May 2013). "Scottish Road Race Championships". British Cycling. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  10. Bull, Nick (21 May 2014). "Rapha Condor-JLT extend Tour Series lead as Gibson and Roe win in Peterborough". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  11. "Eileen Roe wins 2014 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series in Woking". Tour Series. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  12. Pender, Kieran (7 December 2014). "Neil van der Ploeg wins as Porte and Froome abandon". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  13. "BC National Circuit Race Championships: Womens Championships" (PDF). British Cycling. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  14. Abraham, Richard (2 May 2015). "Louise Mahé wins Tour de Yorkshire women’s race". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  15. "Ras na mBan Womens Stage Race 2015". British Cycling. 9 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  16. "Despite bombings, racing continued in Belgium". Ella CyclingTips. 24 March 2016.

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