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Erick Rowsell
Rowsell at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full name Erick Rowsell
Born (1990-07-29) 29 July 1990 (age 34)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider

Erick Rowsell (born 29 July 1990) is a British former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2019 for the Endura Racing, NetApp–Endura, and Madison Genesis teams. He now works as the Elite Road Racing Manager for British Cycling, having previously been a member of their Olympic Development Programme as an endurance rider.

Career

He won the junior race at the 2007 British National Time Trial Championships in an upset of world champion Peter Kennaugh. The following year, he won the junior race at the British National Road Race Championships.

Having won the prologue time trial of the Junior Tour of Wales in 2008, Rowsell won the three-day event – joining previous winners such as Charly Wegelius and Geraint Thomas – by eight seconds from Norwegian Johan Fredrik Ziesler of the Nymark team.

In November 2014 Madison Genesis announced that Rowsell would be part of the team's line-up for the 2015 season.

Personal life

His older sister Joanna Rowsell also competed professionally as a road and track cyclist.

Major results

2007
National Junior Road Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial
3rd Road race
2nd Overall Junior Tour of Wales
3rd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships
2008
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Junior Road Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Junior Tour of Wales
1st Stage 1
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Track Championships
2nd Overall Driedaagse van Axel
3rd Points race, National Junior Track Championships
3rd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud Juniors
2009
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
2010
3rd Madison, National Track Championships (with George Atkins)
2011
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Beijing
3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
2012
2nd Overall Tour Doon Hame
1st Stage 1
6th Overall Tour Alsace
7th Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Stage 5
7th Overall Tour de Bretagne
2014
5th Dwars door Drenthe
2015
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of the Reservoir
1st Stage 1
8th Overall Tour de Yorkshire
2018
5th Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic

See also

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