Felix English

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Felix English Road cycling
Felix English (2018)
Felix English (2018)
To person
Date of birth October 11, 1992
nation IrelandIreland Ireland
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
Most important successes
Track cycling world cup
2019/20 gold 2nd round in Glasgow - Scratch
2016/17 gold 4th round in Los Angeles - two-man team driving
Last updated: February 1, 2020
Felix English (in green) at the omnium elimination run of the European Rail Championship 2018

Felix English (born October 11, 1992 in Brighton , United Kingdom ) is an Irish cyclist .

Athletic career

Felix English is active in road and track cycling . As a junior he won five British national titles until he decided in 2010 to start for Ireland, his parents' home country. At the UEC European Rail Championships in Pruszków in 2010 , the then 18-year-old English caused a stir, as he, as the driver with the worst qualifying time in the first round of the sprint competition, defeated the multiple Olympic champion and fastest in time, Chris Hoy , because he had been inattentive . In the next round, however, English was eliminated.

At a track meeting in Apeldoorn in September 2010, English set a new Irish record in the 1000 meter time trial for juniors with 1: 07.9 minutes . At the UCI Road World Championships 2011 in Copenhagen he started in the U23 class in road races and in the individual time trial . In 2012 he won the fourth stage of the Irish Sea Tour of the North and became Irish champion in the criterion . In 2016 he finished third overall in the British Cycling Elite Circuit Series . At the UEC European Rail Championships in 2016 , he finished fifth in the scratch .

In 2017, Felix English won the two-man team race together with Mark Downey at the fourth round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles and was Irish champion in the Omnium . In 2019 he won the scratch race at the Track World Cup in Glasgow .

successes

Street

2014
2013
2012
  • MaillotIrlanda.PNG Irish Master - Criterion

train

2017
2019

Teams

Web links

Commons : Felix English  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix English interview: Irishman motivated after his David vs Goliath role with Hoy on velonation.com from November 11, 2010 (English)
  2. ↑ Chris Hoy suffers shock Poland defeat to Felix English on news.bbc.co.uk v. November 6, 2010
  3. ↑ New National Records on cyclingireland.ie v. November 12, 2010 ( Memento from March 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME English, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton , UK