Barry Hoban

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Barry Hoban Road cycling
Barry Hoban (1966)
Barry Hoban (1966)
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Date of birth 5th February 1940
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
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
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1973
1974
1975
1978
1979

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
Yellow jersey Vuelta a España 29 47 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 64 - - 62 33 67 DNF 40 70 43 37 68 - 41 65
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Barry Hoban  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championships . Covadonga, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 221 .
  2. ↑ Vin Denson interview. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ William Fotheringham: Put me back on my bike. The Tom Simpson Biography . Covadonga, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 978-3-936973-29-7 , pp. 13 .
  4. ↑ Les Woodland: This Island Race . Mousehold Press, Norwich 2005, pp. 179 (English).
  5. ↑ British cycling legend Barry Hoban launches autobiography. In: Cycling Weekly. May 5, 2015, accessed December 6, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoban, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoban, Peter Barry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wakefield