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Kristian House
House at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full nameKristian House
NicknameThe Dude[1]
Born (1979-10-06) 6 October 1979 (age 45)
Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeBreakaway specialist[2]
Amateur teams
2003Team PCA Orbea Veneto Zeus
2003Colombia–Selle Italia (stagiaire)
2004Bendigo
2005Midex T-Mobile
Professional teams
2006Recycling.co.uk
2007Navigators Insurance
2008–2015Rapha Condor–Recycling.co.uk
2016–2017ONE Pro Cycling
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2009)

Kristian House (born 6 October 1979 in Canterbury, England)[3] is a British former racing cyclist who rode for the JLT–Condor team from 2008 to 2015, and joined ONE Pro Cycling in 2016.[4] He was the 2009 British Road Race Champion.[5] He has raced in Europe and Australia. He rode for Great Britain in UCI World Cup track events. In 2006, he rode for the Recycling.co.uk team and in 2007 he signed for Navigators Insurance.

Kristian House was born in Britain but moved to the United States as a child, growing up initially in New Jersey and then Austin, Texas, where he began racing as a junior. At 17 he began racing in Belgium, where he stayed for two-and-a-half years. He was selected for the Great Britain Under-23 squad at the UCI Road World Championships in 2000 and 2001,[6] although he did not compete in 2000 after crashing out of Paris-Tours at the same corner as Jan Ullrich. After considering retiring from the sport at the age of 23 due to not securing a professional contract, he joined the Team GB track endurance squad after being introduced to team coach Simon Jones by John Herety, the manager of the British road team.[2]

After representing Britain in road and track world championships, he concentrated on road-racing in 2006 after joining the Recycling.co.uk team, now managed by Herety, and won ten races in Europe and Tasmania. They included Ireland's FBD Insurance Rás, where he overhauled Danny Pate. After one year with the American UCI Professional Continental team Navigators, House returned to the UK to link up with Herety again at Rapha Condor–Recycling.co.uk.[2]

In 2009 House became national road race champion in Abergavenny, having finished in the top five six times previously: initially joining the breakaway to provide anticipated support to his planned team leaders for the race, Chris Newton and Tom Southam, House was part of a trio alongside Dan Lloyd and Peter Kennaugh that caught race leader Chris Froome with 800 metres to go, before House won the sprint for the line. He remained with the Rapha Condor team until 2016, when he joined ONE Pro Cycling.[2] In April 2017 he announced that he would retire from competition at the end of the season.[7] In December of that year, JLT-Condor announced that House would be rejoining the team for the following year, taking up a role as the team's performance manager.[8]

House was granted the Freedom of the City of London in 2014.[9]

Major results

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2000
1st Stars of Tomorrow Road Race
1st Essen–Diksmuide
1st Tielt
1st Wervik
1st Hollian
2nd Geluveld
2nd Westkerke
3rd Poperinge
3rd Leke–Diksmuide
2001
1st Nieuwekerken
1st Rumbeke
1st GP Harelbeke
1st Boezinge
2nd Chase Classic
2002
1st Overall Surrey 5-Day
1st Stage 2
2nd National Individual Pursuit Championships
3rd Castletown criterium
5th Manx Trophy
9th Havant International GP
2003
1st Stage 6b Herald Sun Tour
1st Western Australia Criterium Championships
1st Eemegem
2nd Castle criterium
2nd Dougland criterium
2nd Geeling – Botanic Gardens criterium
3rd Armadale criterium
3rd Nieuwekerken
3rd National Madison Championships
4th Overall Tour of Queensland
5th Manx Trophy
2004
2nd ECCA Festival senior road race
3rd Port Arlington Bay criterium
10th Overall Tour of Queensland
2005
1st Bendigo criterium
1st Kortrijk GP
1st Overall Tour of the South
1st KOM Cranbourne Chase stage race
2nd Omloop Van De Grensstreek
2nd GP Dadizele
2nd Ingelmunster
3rd Guildford Criterium
2006
1st Overall FBD Insurance Rás
1st Stage 6 (TTT)
1st Overall Girvan cycle race
1st Stage 2
1st Lincoln GP
1st Stage 3 Tour de Bretagne Cycliste
8th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
8th Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stage 9
2008
2nd East Yorkshire Classic[10]
2nd Overall Tour of the Reservoir[11]
7th Overall Grand Prix Cycliste de Gemenc
9th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher
2009
1st Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Rochdale Grand Prix Circuit Race[12]
6th Overall Mi-Août Bretonne
6th Overall Girvan Three Day[13]
1st Points classification
10th Overall Tour of Britain
2010
1st Day 2 La Primavera at Lago Vista
1st Stage 6 Tour of Japan
1st Richmond GP
3rd Overall Mi-Août Bretonne
2011
1st Overall Tour of South Africa
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a León
2nd Grand Prix des Marbriers
3rd Roy Thame Cup[14]
6th Road race, National Road Championships
2012
1st Durham Stage Tour Series
1st Mountains classification Tour of Britain
3rd Lincoln GP
6th Tobago Cycling Classic
2013
1st Durham Stage Tour Series
5th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher
6th Road race, National Road Championships
Overall Combativity award, Tour of Britain[2]
2014
1st Beaumont Trophy
1st Sheffield Grand Prix[15]
1st Prologue (TTT) Mzansi Tour
2015
1st Milk Race[16]
1st Round 4 – Motherwell, Tour Series[17]
5th Grand Prix des Marbriers
2016
1st Stage 3 New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Stage 7 Tour de Korea

References

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  1. ^ Hickmott, Larry (14 August 2009). "The Dude: Kristian House". British Cycling. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cleverly, Ian (18 April 2017). "Kristian House: One More For the Road". Rouleur. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Profile". velobios.co.
  4. ^ "New Riders for 2016". oneprocycling.com. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Olympic stars shocked in national". news.bbc.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Brits in the Under-23 World Road Race 1998-2007". Cycling Weekly. 23 September 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  7. ^ Pitt, Vern (27 April 2017). "Kristian House retires". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 18 May 2018 – via PressReader.
  8. ^ "Kristian House rejoins JLT Condor in new role". JLT–Condor. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Grant awarded Freedom of the City". Condor Cycles. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  10. ^ McManus, Gerry. "Russell wraps up Downing double". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  11. ^ "Tour of the Reservoir". Rapha Condor–Recycling.co.uk. 31 March 2008. Archived from the original on 12 August 2010. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  12. ^ "Rochdale Grand Prix Circuit Races". British Cycling. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  13. ^ "Marcin Bialoblocki wins the Girvan". Cycling Weekly. 13 April 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  14. ^ "Road: Moses Claims Roy Thame Cup". British Cycling. 12 March 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  15. ^ "Kristian House (Rapha Condor-JLT) wins penultimate round of the 2014 British Cycling Elite Circuit Series". British Cycling. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  16. ^ "The Milk Race". British Cycling. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  17. ^ Wynn, Nigel; Jones, Andy (27 May 2015). "Katie Archibald and Kristian House win in Motherwell Tour Series round (photos)". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
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