Alex Dowsett

Alex Dowsett
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Dowsett (2019)
Personal information
Full nameAlex Edward Albert Dowsett
Born (1988-10-03) 3 October 1988 (age 31)
Maldon, Essex, England[1]
Height1.82 m (5 ft 1112 in)[2]
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)[2]
Team information
Current teamTeam Katusha–Alpecin
DisciplineRoad and track
RoleRider
Rider typeTime trialist
Amateur team(s)
2009100% Me
Professional team(s)
2010Trek–Livestrong
2011–2012Team Sky
2013–2017Movistar Team
2018–Team Katusha–Alpecin[3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2013)

Stage races

Bayern–Rundfahrt (2015)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships
(2011–2013, 2015, 2016, 2019)

World Hour record

2 May 2015, 52.937 km

Alex Edward Albert Dowsett (born 3 October 1988) is a British professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Katusha–Alpecin.[4] He is a time trial specialist. In 2015, he broke track cycling's world hour record by 446 metres (1,463 feet), with a distance of 52.937 kilometres (32.894 miles).

Early life

The son of former British Touring Car Championship driver Phil Dowsett,[5] Dowsett was educated at Elm Green Preparatory School in Little Baddow, followed by King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford. He initially took up swimming as a sport before starting cycling on a mountain bike along with his father.[6] He trained as a pastry chef alongside his early cycling career.

Career

Early career

Dowsett began his career at the Maldon and District Cycling Club in the City of Chelmsford.[7] His talent was soon recognised and Dowsett became part of the British Olympic Academy development team. He won the under-23 version of the British Time Trial Championships in 2008 and 2009. In 2010, he rode for American Trek–Livestrong team and won the under-23 European time trial championship.[8] He also won a silver medal in the Time Trial at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Modelling Career

Dowsett started his modelling career in 2010 and was featured in the Argos catalogue (Autumn-Winter 2010) and various VeloNews articles between 2010 and 2011.

Team Sky (2011–12)

Dowsett at the 2011 Tour of Britain

Dowsett signed for British-based Team Sky as a neo-pro for the 2011 season. His first victory for Sky came in the London Nocturne event. Dowsett finished fifth overall in the Danmark Rundt, helping teammate Simon Gerrans to overall victory. He won the fifth stage of the Tour du Poitou-Charentes to finish second overall. In September, he won the British National Time Trial Championships. Dowsett won the Stage 8a time trial of the Tour of Britain.

In March 2012, Dowsett suffered a broken elbow in the Three Days of De Panne and as a result missed the classics season. Dowsett recovered to finish second in the National Road Race Championships, and later retained his National Time Trial Championships title. Later in September, Dowsett competed at the UCI World Road Race Championships in all three men's elite events, with a best placing of eighth in the individual time trial.

Movistar (2013–2017)

On 30 October 2012, Dowsett signed with the Spanish Movistar Team for the 2013 season hoping to gain a ride at a Grand Tour.[9] After competing in the Classics season for Movistar Team, Dowsett was selected to ride the Giro d'Italia, his first Grand Tour appearance. Dowsett helped Movistar Team take second place in the team time trial on stage two. On stage eight, a 54.8 km (34.1 mi) individual time trial, Dowsett set the fastest time to record his biggest career victory to date, setting a time ten seconds faster than the second placed Bradley Wiggins.[10] In June, Dowsett won the British National Time Trial Championships for the third year in a row despite crashing early on in the course.[11]

Dowsett at the 2014 Tour of Britain

In May 2014 Dowsett set a new British 10-mile time trial record in Cambridgeshire, clocking in at 17 minutes 20 seconds and beating Michael Hutchinson's previous record by 25 seconds.[12] Competing for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Dowsett won gold in the Individual Time Trial.[13] After a long breakaway, Dowsett took the lead of the Tour of Britain on the sixth stage[14] but lost it before the end of the race to Dylan van Baarle and finished eighth overall.[15] His team announced that Dowsett had signed a three-year contract extension with them in September.[16]

Dowsett (centre) in the leading group of the 2015 Vattenfall Cyclassics

In December 2014, Dowsett announced he would attempt to break the UCI Hour Record at the Lee Valley VeloPark on 27 February 2015.[17] However, he was forced to postpone the attempt after breaking his collarbone in a training accident.[18] The attempt instead took place at the Manchester Velodrome on 2 May 2015[19] where Dowsett set a new world record of 52.937 kilometres (32.894 miles), beating Rohan Dennis' previous record by almost half a kilometre.[20] Two weeks later, Dowsett won his first ever stage race, the Bayern–Rundfahrt, where he claimed the overall victory a day after winning the Stage 4 individual time-trial. In June 2015 Dowsett clinched his fourth national time trial title.[21] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[22]

Team Katusha–Alpecin (2018–present)

In August 2017, it was announced that Dowsett would join Team Katusha–Alpecin for the 2018 season.[3]

Personal life

Dowsett suffers from haemophilia.[23] Speaking on ITV's Cycle Show in July 2013, Dowsett cited this medical condition as being a key factor in his choosing competitive cycling in his youth, above other sports, because contact games such as football and rugby were considered too risky. He is believed to be the only able-bodied elite sportsman or woman with the condition.[6] As a result, he has a special exemption from the Union Cycliste Internationale's no needles policy, introduced in 2011,[24] to inject himself with the clotting protein Factor VIII every 48 hours. Dowsett runs the charitable foundation Little Bleeders to raise awareness of haemophilia.[6]

Major results

2005
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Junior Tour of Wales
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
2006
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
3rd Overall Junior Tour of Wales
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
2007
6th Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic
2008
National Under-23 Road Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial
4th Road race
1st Prologue (TTT) Tour Alsace
2009
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Richmond Grand Prix
7th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
2010
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
1st Chrono des Nations Espoirs
1st Stage 5 Cascade Cycling Classic
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Time trial, Commonwealth Games
8th Tour of the Battenkill
2011
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st London Nocturne
1st Stage 8a (ITT) Tour of Britain
2nd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
1st Stage 5
3rd Chrono des Nations
5th Overall Danmark Rundt
6th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
2012
National Road Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial
2nd Road race
2nd Duo Normand (with Luke Rowe)
8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2013
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Stage 8 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
2nd London Nocturne
2014
1st Gold medal blank.svg Time trial, Commonwealth Games
1st Stage 3 (ITT) Circuit de la Sarthe
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Madison (with Joe Holt), National Track Championships
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
8th Overall Tour of Britain
2015
World Hour record: 52.937 km
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
1st Stage 4 (ITT)
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2016
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tour de Pologne
2017
1st Stage 2b (ITT) Circuit de la Sarthe
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
10th Overall Dubai Tour
2018
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
5th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
2019
National Road Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial
4th Road race
5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
5th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
10th Overall ZLM Tour

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 147 120
A yellow jersey Tour de France DNF 151
A red jersey Vuelta a España Has not yet contested during career
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ "Alex Dowsett Biography". Team Sky. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Alex Dowsett - Team KATUSHA ALPECIN". Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Britain's Alex Dowsett to leave Movistar for Katusha-Alpecin". BBC Sport. BBC. 21 August 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Katusha-Alpecin announce reduced 24-rider roster for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  5. ^ "A family affair for Airwaves Racing at Dunton shakedown". Airwaves Racing. Motorbase Performance. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  6. ^ a b c "Alex Dowsett: Haemophilia no barrier to cyclist's hour record bid". bbc.co.uk. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  7. ^ [1] Archived 23 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Lionel Birnie (6 November 2009). "Dowsett signs with Trek-LiveStrong". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  9. ^ Wynn, Nigel (30 October 2012). "Dowsett signs to Movistar team for 2013". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Limited. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  10. ^ Wynn, Nigel; Brown, Gregor (11 May 2013). "Alex Dowsett wins Giro d'Italia stage eight time trial". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  11. ^ "Dowsett claims third straight British time trial title". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  12. ^ Wynn, Nigel (31 May 2014). "Alex Dowsett sets new British 10-mile time trial record". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  13. ^ "Alex Dowsett wins men's time trial gold". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  14. ^ "Brändle claims second successive win at Tour of Britain". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  15. ^ "Dylan van Baarle wins 2014 Tour of Britain". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 14 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  16. ^ "Great Britain's Alex Dowsett signs new three-year contract with Movistar". The Guardian. 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  17. ^ http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/alex-dowsett-announces-hour-record-attempt-february-27-150124
  18. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/30946525
  19. ^ Clarke, Stuart (27 April 2015). "Storey shares Hour Record advice as Dowsett's attempt draws near". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  20. ^ "Alex Dowsett sets new Hour Record of 52.937km". cyclingnews.com. 2 May 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  21. ^ Allen, Eddie (25 June 2015). "Dowsett, Simmonds and Davies take British time trial titles". British Cycling. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  22. ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  23. ^ Ellis Bacon (22 March 2010). "Dowsett delivers for Trek-Livestrong". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  24. ^ Farrand, Stephen (2 February 2015). "UCI approves no needle policy". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

External links

Records
Preceded by
Rohan Dennis
UCI hour record (52.937 km)
2 May 2015 – 7 June 2015
Succeeded by
Bradley Wiggins

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