Lewis Oliva

Lewis Oliva

Lewis Oliva (2015)
To person
Date of birth	23rd August 1992
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Train (short term)
End of career	2018
Most important successes
UEC European Rail Championships 2012 - team sprint Commonwealth Games 2018 - Keirin
Last updated: June 2, 2020

Lewis Oliva (born August 23, 1992 in Devauden , Monmouthshire ) is a former Welsh track cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2012 Lewis Oliva was British champion in the team sprint , together with David Daniell and Peter Mitchell , and runner-up in the sprint .

At the UEC European Rail Championships 2012 in Panevėžys , Lithuania , Oliva won the bronze medal in the team sprint together with Matthew Crampton and Callum Skinner and was sixth in the keirin . In 2014 he won the national team sprint title again with Philip Hindes , Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner, and came third in the Keirin. In the semifinals of the sprint competition, Oliva fell, suffered burns and had around 100 splinters of wood in his body. Despite these injuries, he was nominated for the UEC European Track Championships in 2014 , where he finished sixth in the team sprint with Skinner and Crampton.

In 2014 Oliva was British champion in team sprint with Philip Hindes, Kenny and Skinner, in 2015 in sprint, 2017 and 2018 in keirin . At the Commonwealth Games 2018 he won the silver medal in this discipline.

In October 2018, Oliva announced his retirement from cycling to pursue his medical degree . He had previously studied philosophy at the Open University . He is married to the former cyclist Ciara Horne .

successes

2012

• European Championship - Team Sprint (with Matthew Crampton and Callum Skinner )

2014

• British Champion - Team Sprint (with Philip Hindes , Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner )

2015

• British Champion - Sprint

2017

• British champion - Keirin

2018

• Commonwealth Games - Keirin
• British champion - Keirin

Teams

• 2012 Welsh Cycling Team
• 2017 Team Usn

Web links

Commons : Lewis Oliva  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lewis Oliva in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Lewis Oliva to join Team SWI Welsh Cycling in Glasgow on britishcycling.org.uk v. October 18, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ British Championship medals for Devauden youngster on monmouth-today.co.uk v. October 24, 2012
2. ↑ In the team sprint, three drivers start, but a team can consist of four drivers who are exchanged. All four drivers who participated in the race will be honored as winners.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Devauden cyclist breaks pain barrier to compete at European Champs. Monmouthshire Beacon, October 22, 2014, accessed October 25, 2014 . 
4. ↑ 2015 British Cycling National Senior Track Championships. Sprint - Manchester, England - 23 Sep 2015. In: dataride.uci.ch. September 23, 2015, accessed June 2, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Dylan Terry: Commonwealth medal-winning cyclist Oliva to focus on studies. In: southwalesargus.co.uk. October 29, 2018, accessed June 2, 2020 .