Jeremy Hunt (cyclist)

Jeremy Hunt

Hunt (left) near Gent-Wevelgem 2011
To person
Date of birth	12th March 1974 (age 46)
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Road cycling
Team (s)
1996–2000 2004–2006 2006–2008 2011–2012	Banesto MrBookmaker.com Unibet.com Sky ProCycling
Most important successes
Winner GP Ouest France-Plouay , 2002
Last updated: November 19, 2017

Jeremy Hunt (born March 12, 1974 in Macklin , Saskatchewan , Canada ) is a sports director and former British cyclist .

Athletic career

Jeremy Hunt got a contract with the Banesto cycling team in 1996 , where he rode for four years. The sprinter scored its first victories in 1997 at the Tour de l'Avenir and the Tour of Aragon . In 1998 he won two stages in the Tour of Portugal and in 1999 one in the Vuelta a Castilla y León . In the 2000 season he moved to the French team BigMat-Auber 93 , started at the Olympic Games in Sydney in the road race , which he did not finish.

In the following three years he won stages in the Herald Sun Tour , the Mediterranean Tour and the Circuit Franco-Belge . In 2002 he had the greatest success of his career: he won the highly rated French one-day race GP Ouest France-Plouay . From 2004 Hunt drove for the Belgian team MrBookmaker.com and from 2006 for Unibet.com .

In 2008 he signed with Crédit Agricole . He then drove for two years for the Cervélo TestTeam and another two years for Sky ProCycling .

At the end of the 2012 season he ended his career and became sporting director of the Continental Team Synergy Baku Cycling Project .

successes

1997

• British champion - road racing
• Circuito de Getxo

2000

• International Australian Championship - Road Racing

2001

• British champion - road racing

2002

• Grand Prix Plouay

2007

• Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

2008

• one stage Tour de Langkawi

2009

• one stage Post Danmark Rundt

Placement in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	150	-	-	DNF
Tour de France	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	163	-	-
Vuelta a España	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	107	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 1996-1999 Banesto
• 2000-2002 Big Mat-Auber 93
• 2003 MBK Octos
• 2004 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans
• 2005 MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech
• 2006-2007 Unibet.com
• 2008 Crédit Agricole
• 2009–2010 Cervélo TestTeam
• 2011–2012 Sky ProCycling

Web links

• Jeremy Hunt in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Jeremy Hunt in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Jeremy Hunt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jeremy Hunt in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Shane Stokes: Hunt and McCann to work together on the new Synergy Baku Cycling Project team. In: Velonation.com. January 16, 2013, accessed December 25, 2013 .