Barry Hoban
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Barry Hoban (1966) | |
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Date of birth | 5th February 1940 |
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discipline | Road / train |
End of career | 1980 |
Last updated: September 22, 2019 |
Peter Barry Hoban (born February 5, 1940 in Wakefield ) is a retired British cyclist .
Cycling career
In 1960 Barry Hoban became British Champion in the Individual Pursuit and took part in the team pursuit (with Mike Gambrill , Charles McCoy and Joseph McClean ) at the Olympic Games in Rome. The following year he was British road racing champion as well as in the individual time trial of the amateurs .
In 1962 Hoban joined the Independants and was able to compete with amateurs and professionals, including the Tour de l'Avenir 1963, where he was able to finish second. In August he switched to the professionals and worked as such until 1981, with the exception of a few years in the French team Mercier . He finished on the podium in several classics, in 1966 he won Around the Henninger Tower , in 1971 the Grand Prix de Fourmies , in 1974 Gent – Wevelgem (the only Briton until 2015) and Paris – Bourges . At the road world championships he was placed in the front field only once when he crossed the finish line in 1965 in Lasarte, Spain. In 1967 he crossed the finish line as 31st in Heerlen in the Netherlands .
He took part in the Tour de France twelve times , which he finished eleven times: 1964: one stage second, 1967: 62nd, 1968: 33rd, 1969: 67th, 1971: 40th, 1972: 70th, 1973: 43rd, 1974: 37th, 1975: 68th, 1977: 41st, 1978: 65th - so he holds the British record. Until the success of his compatriot Mark Cavendish , he also held the British record with eight stage wins; Even his achievement in 1969, the only Briton to have won two Tour stages in a row, was only discontinued by Cavendish 30 years later, in 2009. After the British cyclist Tom Simpson was killed in the Tour de France in 1967 , Hoban was allowed to win this stage the next day. His team-mate Vincent Denson had a different reading of the events at that time . He described the situation in such a way that the opinion leaders in the driver's field agreed, on the initiative of Jean Stablinski , that a Briton, Vincent Denson, should win the subsequent stage in Simpson honor, but Hoban did not stick to it and questioned the agreement. He later said that he was not informed of the appointment.
In the 19 years of his professional career from 1963 to 1981, he won a total of 35 road races - in France (25), Great Britain (5), Belgium (2), Spain (2) and Germany (1). It was only in the last two years of his cycling career that he rode in British teams and ended his active career at the age of 41.
Honors
In 2009, Barry Hoban was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame .
Private
Two years after Tom Simpson's death, Barry Hoban married his widow. He now lives in Wales near a company that makes frames in his name. In 2015 he published his autobiography Vas-Y Barry: My Cycling Story .
successes
- 1964
- two stages Vuelta a España
- one stage Grand Prix Midi Libre
- 1966
- 1967
- a stage Tour de France
- 1968
- a stage Tour de France
- 1969
- two stages Tour de France
- a stage 4 Jours de Dunkerque
- 1970
- 1971
- 1973
- two stages Tour de France
- 1974
- a stage Tour de France
- a stage Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
- a stage Tour de l'Aude
- Overall ranking and two stages of the Grand Prix Midi Libre
- Paris – Bourges
- Gent – Wevelgem
- 1975
- a stage Tour de France
- 1978
- a stage 4 Jours de Dunkerque
- 1979
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 |
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29 | 47 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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64 | - | - | 62 | 33 | 67 | DNF | 40 | 70 | 43 | 37 | 68 | - | 41 | 65 |
Web links
- Barry Hoban in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Barry Hoban in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Barry Hoban in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Barry Hoban in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championships . Covadonga, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 221 .
- ↑ Vin Denson interview. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
- ^ William Fotheringham: Put me back on my bike. The Tom Simpson Biography . Covadonga, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 978-3-936973-29-7 , pp. 13 .
- ↑ Les Woodland: This Island Race . Mousehold Press, Norwich 2005, pp. 179 (English).
- ↑ British cycling legend Barry Hoban launches autobiography. In: Cycling Weekly. May 5, 2015, accessed December 6, 2015 .
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SURNAME | Hoban, Barry |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoban, Peter Barry (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wakefield |