Daniel Lloyd
Daniel Lloyd (born August 11, 1980 in Christchurch , England ) is a former British cyclist , later sports director and current cycling commentator.
Career
Lloyd began his international career in 2003 with the British cycling team Endura Sport . In 2006 he won a stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake for the Taiwanese Continental Team Giant Asia and finished the race in fourth place overall. In 2008 he won the overall ranking of the Vuelta a Extremadura as a member of the Irish team An Post . He received his first contract with a team in a higher category in 2009 with the Swiss Cervélo TestTeam , a Professional Continental Team , and switched to the US ProTeam in 2011 after its merger Garmin-Cervélo . During this time he competed and finished the Giro d'Italia 2009 and 2010 and the Tour de France 2010 in 114, 103 and 164 places.
At the end of the 2012 season, he ended his career as a professional cyclist with the IG-Sigma Sport team , which he then became sporting director. He later worked as a cycling commentator for the television channel Eurosport and the Internet service Global Cycling Network . An April Fool's joke in 2016 successfully spread the false report that Lloyd was making a comeback as a driver for the UCI WorldTeam Dimension Data .
successes
- 2006
- one stage tour of Qinghai Lake
- 2008
- Overall standings and team time trial Vuelta a Extremadura
Teams
- 2003 Endurasport.com Principia
- 2004 Flanders-Afin.com
- 2005 Flanders
- 2006 Giant Asia Racing Team
- 2007 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed
- 2008 To Post-M. Donnelly-Grant Thornton-Sean Kelly Team
- 2009 Cervélo TestTeam
- 2010 Cervélo TestTeam
- 2011 Team Garmin-Cervélo
- 2012 Team IG-Sigma Sport
Web links
- Daniel Lloyd in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Daniel Lloyd in the database of Radsportseiten.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Lloyd moves into team management. November 22, 2012, accessed August 5, 2016 .
- ^ Hard roads and stepping stones. (No longer available online.) Anpost.ie, archived from the original on April 18, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Five of the best cycling April Fools jokes of 2016. cyclingweekly.com, January 2016, accessed on August 5, 2016 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lloyd, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christchurch (Dorset) , England |