Heath Blackgrove

Heath Blackgrove

To person
Full name	Heath Denyer Murray Blackgrove
Date of birth	5th December 1980
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Elevate Pro Cycling P / B Bicycle World (2016)
function	driver
End of career	2016
Last updated: November 17, 2017

Heath Denyer Murray Blackgrove (born December 5, 1980 in Oamaru ) is a retired New Zealand cyclist .

Heath Blackgrove began cycling around the age of eleven, following his father's example. In 1998 he won four New Zealand junior titles, two on the road, in the individual time trial and in the road race, two on the track , in the points race and in the team pursuit . In the same year, he was twice named South Canterbury Sports Person of the Year , in the elite and in the junior category.

Heath Blackgrove became the New Zealand elite road racing champion for the first time in 2003. In 2004 he started at the Olympic Games in Athens and finished 32nd in the individual time trial, he did not finish the road race. He then went looking for a team in Europe and in 2005 drove for the Belgian Continental Team Jartazi Granville . From 2006 to 2008 he was under contract with the US Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team .

In 2009 Blackgrove won the Tour of Southland in his home country, which he himself describes as his “proudest moment”, and shortly afterwards he married his girlfriend. At that time he was already living in the USA, most recently in Austin , where he worked for various teams and mainly competed there.

successes

1998

• New Zealand Junior Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial, Points Trial, Team Pursuit

1999

• New Zealand Champion (U23) - Individual Time Trial

2001

• New Zealand Champion (U23) - Individual Time Trial

2003

• Track Cycling World Cup in Sydney - Team Pursuit (with Hayden Godfrey , Marc Ryan and Lee Maxwell Vertongen )
• New Zealand Champion - Street
• one stage Tour of Southland

2004

• New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial
• New Zealand Champion - Street

2006

• New Zealand Champion - Team Pursuit (with Marc Ryan , Hayden Roulston and James Fairweather )

2008

• Team Time Trial Tour of Southland
• Tobago Cycling Classic

2009

• Overall ranking Tour of Southland

Teams

• 2005 Jartazi Granville
• 2006 Toyota-United
• 2007 Toyota-United
• 2008 Toyota-United
• 2016 Elevate Pro Cycling P / B Bicycle World

Web links

• Heath Blackgrove in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Heath Blackgrove in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Heath Blackgrove in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Stu Piddington: Blackgrove's wheels still turning. In: stuff.co.nz. Retrieved November 20, 2016 .