![]() Rowsell at the
2016 Tour of Britain | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Erick Rowsell |
Born | 29 July 1990 |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur teams | |
2010 | 100% ME |
2011 | Team Corridori/Specialized |
Professional teams | |
2012 | Endura Racing |
2013–2014 | NetApp–Endura |
2015–2019 | Madison Genesis |
Erick Rowsell (born 29 July 1990) is a British former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2019 for the Endura Racing, [1] NetApp–Endura, [2] and Madison Genesis teams. He now works as the Elite Road Racing Manager for British Cycling, [3] having previously been a member of their Olympic Development Programme as an endurance rider. [4]
He won the junior race at the 2007 British National Time Trial Championships in an upset of world champion Peter Kennaugh. [5] The following year, he won the junior race at the British National Road Race Championships. [6]
Having won the prologue time trial of the Junior Tour of Wales in 2008, Rowsell won the three-day event – joining previous winners such as Charly Wegelius and Geraint Thomas – by eight seconds from Norwegian Johan Fredrik Ziesler of the Nymark team. [7]
In November 2014 Madison Genesis announced that Rowsell would be part of the team's line-up for the 2015 season. [8]
His older sister Joanna Rowsell also competed professionally as a road and track cyclist. [9]
Her brother, Erick, will have that chance [...]