Ryan Cox

Ryan Cox in 2005 at the bike race around the Henninger Tower

Ryan Cox (born April 9, 1979 in Kempton Park , Gauteng , † August 1, 2007 ) was a South African racing cyclist .

Ryan Cox began his career in 2000 with the Amore e Vita cycling team . After a year he switched to Team Cologne , for which he drove for two years. Since 2003, Cox has been driving for the British Professional Continental Team Barloworld . He had his most successful year in 2005. First he won the overall classification of the Tour de Langkawi , and later he was the South African road champion. In the final overall ranking of the UCI Africa and Asia Tour he came in second.

On August 1, 2007, Cox died of blood loss caused by a ruptured artery in his left leg. Just three weeks earlier, he had had an operation on this artery.

successes

2005

Tour de Langkawi
South African road champion

Teams

Web links

Commons : Ryan Cox - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Ryan Cox in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Ryan Cox in the Radsportseiten.net database

Homepage Ryan Cox ( Memento from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ news24.com of August 1, 2007: Tributes pour in for Ryan Cox ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Cox, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South African racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kempton Park , Gauteng
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 2007
Place of death	Kempton Park , Gauteng

[1] ws24.com of August 1, 2007: Tributes pour in for Ryan Cox ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )