A Junior Win?

winoneday
winoneday Posts: 253
edited April 2008 in Pro race
According to the live text coverage of Paris-Roubaix Andrew Fenn won the junior Roubaix. Is this the guy from the Isle of Man who has been ridding quite well on the track? I assume it is but if anyone knows for sure. If it is then a big congratulations (and a small British win). So well done.

The link is here:

http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=12501

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  • Climber_Andy
    Climber_Andy Posts: 852
    From Daily Peloton:

    Juniors, results:
    1. Andrew Fenn, 122km in 3:12'33.
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Etienne Fedrigo
    4. Emil Houmand
    5. Michael Humbert
    6. Barry Markus
    7. Kenneth Vanbilsen
    8. Ramon Domene
    9. Romain Bacon
    10. Nicolas Vereecken
    11. Boris Zimne
    12. Pablo Lechuga
    13. Erick Rowsell
    14. Damien Le Fustec
    15. Toby Meadows
    16. Sebastian Lander
    17. Nejc Kosir
    18. Claudio Mhof
    19. George Atkins
    20. Matvey Zubov
    21. Alphonse Vermote
    22. Luke Rowe
    23. Sjoerd Kouwenhoven
    24. Arnaud Demare
    25. Gennadiy Tatarnov
    26. Benjamin Sydlik
    27. Bastian Burgel
    28. Gil Jacot Descombes
    29. Kokljaer Kristensen
    30. Victor Fobert

    :D Great - didn't Geraint Thomas win in... 2004 was it?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    What exactly do they put in the water on the Isle of Man?
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Didn't Geraint Thomas win it a few years ago too?
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • leguape
    leguape Posts: 986
    Yup, Geraint won it in 2004.
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  • freddymerckx
    freddymerckx Posts: 46
    afx237vi wrote:
    What exactly do they put in the water on the Isle of Man?

    dunno, but i want some.
  • BrianS
    BrianS Posts: 112
    Another great Scot in the making! 8)
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/si ... n_Fenn.asp

    Great result for him 8)
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  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    and who said Trackies can't ride Road eh?
  • peterdowning
    peterdowning Posts: 67
    afx237vi wrote:
    What exactly do they put in the water on the Isle of Man?

    It's not the water, it's because they have three legs and can therefore pedal 1.5 times as fast as the rest of us :D
  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    Actually, I think this guy's from Kent - a rare English success then!

    I can only think of Roger Hammond as an Englishman road racing in Europe and Wiggins who is an Australo-Belg-Londoner.

    The rest of the top British cyclists seem to be Welsh, Manx or Scottish (or Hong-Kong-Maltese)!!
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    ContrelaMontre wrote:
    Actually, I think this guy's from Kent - a rare English success then!

    I can only think of Roger Hammond as an Englishman road racing in Europe and Wiggins who is an Australo-Belg-Londoner.

    The rest of the top British cyclists seem to be Welsh, Manx or Scottish (or Hong-Kong-Maltese)!!

    Steve Cummings is from Liverpool isn't he?

    Jeremy Hunt? Wikipedia says he was born in Macklin, but even after googling I still can't figure out where that actually is.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    Is it Victoria McPendleton?
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

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  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    5 brits in the top 22 placings for that race - the shape of things to come? or does it all fizzle out once they leave the next?
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    I was thinking of male road riders! I'd forgotten Cummings though.

    But it does make me wonder why Wales and the Isle of Man with a population about 5% that of England have better riders.

    I suspect the small sample of UK pro road racers makes any observations statistically insignificant though!
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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    Isle of Man cycling has a good youth scene organised by Dot Tilbury and others.

    Other than that, I'm sure sure about the water but the fierce headwinds blowing in off the Irish Sea will certainly build stamina.
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  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    Gotta be a cultural thing. Why does Belgium produce so many great classics riders?
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    Moomaloid wrote:
    and who said Trackies can't ride Road eh?

    I did.

    So I stand corrected. Some trackies actually can maneuver a bicycle. As for admitting "trackies can ride road" as a steadfast rule, let's not get ahead of ourselves, here. :wink:
  • BrianS
    BrianS Posts: 112
    A true Braveheart!!!

    Andy Fenn, the Kent-based teenager, who won Sunday’s junior Paris-Roubaix road race, has set his sights on riding for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

    The 17 year old member of the British Cycling Olympic Development Programme qualifies through a Glasgow-born mother. His grandmother and great grandmother both still live in the city.

    Fenn rode a well judged race over the 122 kilometre partially cobbled route in Sunday’s race, gradually overtaking the riders ahead of him in the closing stages before catching the leader a kilometre from the finish in Roubaix Velodrome.

    He follows Geraint Thomas as winner of the event. Thomas, who was victorious in 2004, now rides for the Barloworld team and competed in last year’s Tour de France.

    The win comes on top of Fenn’s success in the Future Stars Revolution Track Series over the winter.

    Naturally, Alasdair MacLennan, the performance director at Scottish Cycling, is delighted at the rider’s decision.

    “Obviously there is nothing guaranteed until he has ridden for us, but he has given his commitment”, said MacLennan. “I have spoken to Andrew, his family and his coaches and they are all happy with things. Obviously, his mother is desperate to see him ride at Glasgow in 2014.”
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