Sean Yates
Sean Yates (born May 18, 1960 in Ewell ) is a former British cyclist and sports director .
Cycling career
In 1980 Sean Yates started at the Olympic Games in Moscow on the track : In the team pursuit he finished sixth (with Tony Doyle , Malcolm Elliott and Glen Mitchell ) and in the single pursuit seventh place.
In 1982 Yates moved to the pros, in the same year he was British runner-up in road racing and national champion in the single pursuit. He was able to successfully defend the title in the single pursuit in 1983. In the 15 years of his professional career he was mainly active as a domestic, but could also boast victories. In 1989 he won the Tour of Belgium and the Eddy Merckx Grand Prix . He started twelve times in the Tour de France . His best place was 45th. In the 1988 Tour he won the sixth stage and in 1994 he wore the yellow jersey for one day . In 1992 he was British road racing champion; In 1994 he won the US Commerce Bank International Championship road race .
1996 Sean Yates resigned from active cycling and became manager of the "Linda McCartney Racing Team". In 2001, after the end of this team, he went to the Australian team "itTeamNova", then after a few months he moved to Team CSC-Tiscali and in 2005 to Discovery at the invitation of Lance Armstrong . In 2008 he managed the Astana team . In 2009 he became the sporting director of the Sky ProCycling team and left this position at the end of 2012 for "personal reasons". The team management stated that there was no connection to the doping affair of his former teammate and protégé Lance Armstrong.
As a " veteran ", Sean Yates continues to race successfully despite heart problems; so he was several times British champion in the 50-mile time trial. He also plays football as a goalkeeper on a hobby team.
Honors
In 2009, Sean Yates was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame .
Web links
- Sean Yates in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Sean Yates in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
1946 A.-H. Clark | 1947 Dennis Jaggard | 1948 Harold Johnson | 1949 Bob Thom | 1950 Leonard West | 1951, 1961 Dave Bedwell | 1952 Ian Steel | 1953 Bob Maitland | 1954 Arthur Isley | 1955 Graham Vines | 1956 Mike England | 1957, 1958, 1959 Ron Coe | 1962 John Harvey | 1963, 1965 Albert Hitchen | 1964 Keith Butler | 1966 Dick Goodman | 1967, 1968 Colin Lewis | 1969 Bill Lawrie | 1970, 1975 Les West | 1971 Danny Horton | 1972 Gary Crewe | 1973 Brian Jolly | 1974, 1980 Keith Lambert | 1976 Geoff Wiles | 1977 Phil Edwards | 1978 Phil Corley | 1979 Sid Barras | 1981 Bill Nickson | 1982 John Herety | 1983 Phil Thomas | 1984, 1988 Steve Joughin | 1985 Ian Banbury | 1986 Mark Bell | 1987 Paul Sherwen | 1989 Tim Harris | 1990 Colin Sturgess | 1991, 1994 Brian Smith | 1992 Sean Yates | 1993 Malcolm Elliott | 1995 Robert Millar | 1996 David Rand | 1997, 2001 Jeremy Hunt | 1998 Matthew Stephens | 1999, 2000 John Tanner | 2002 Julian Winn | 2003, 2004 Roger Hammond | 2005 Russell Downing | 2006 Hamish Robert Haynes | 2007 David Millar | 2008 Rob Hayles | 2009 Kristian House | 2010 Geraint Thomas | 2011 Bradley Wiggins | 2012 Ian Stannard | 2013 Mark Cavendish | 2014, 2015 Peter Kennaugh | 2016 Adam Blythe | 2017 Steve Cummings | 2018 Connor Swift | 2019 Ben Swift
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yates, Sean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cyclist and sports director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ewell |