Adam Blythe

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Adam Michael Blythe (born 1 October 1989) is an English former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2010 and 2019 for the Template:Cycling data BMC, Template:Cycling data NPC, Template:Cycling data OBE, Template:Cycling data TNK, Template:Cycling data ABS and Template:Cycling data LTS teams.[1] Blythe began racing at a young age and went on to become a member of British Cycling's Olympic Development Programme.

Amateur career

Born in Sheffield, Blythe began cycling at a young age with the Sheffield Phoenix club. Cycling was a family activity, his sister Kimberley Blythe was also fairly successful as a young rider.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Blythe became Derbyshire's Junior Sportsman of the Year in the East Midlands Sports Personality of the Year Awards, 2005.[2]

Blythe left British Cycling's Academy Programme by mutual consent in February 2008, and went to race in Belgium.[3] He stayed with the ex-professional cyclist, Tim Harris, in Westmeerbeek, near Antwerp. Blythe was awarded a Cycling Time Trials scholarship to enable him to race on the continent and develop further. He raced for the Wielerclub Des Sprinters Malderen which is a feeder club for a professional team.[4] He also received support from the Dave Rayner Fund during his time in Belgium.[5]

Professional career

Blythe returned to Belgium to ride for the DAVO squad in 2009, under the tutelage of Kurt Van De Wouwer, a former professional.[6] He had joined pro-tour team Template:Cycling data OLO as a trainee in July 2009,[7] it was announced on 7 September 2009 that he had signed a two-year contract with Silence-Lotto in the wake of a string of good results for the team.[8][9]

In 2012, Blythe followed his teammate and close friend Philippe Gilbert to the Template:Cycling data BMC.[10] In October 2012, Blythe sprinted his way to victory in the semi-classic Binche–Tournai–Binche, popping out of his teammate's wheel on a cobbled sector with Script error: No such module "convert". to go, edging Adrien Petit (Template:Cycling data COF) and John Degenkolb of Template:Cycling data ARG.[11]

In 2014, Blythe rode for the newly formed British Template:Cycling data NPC team.[12] After a very successful year competing on the British domestic scene, Blythe joined Australian team Template:Cycling data OBE for the 2015 season.[13] After one season there in August 2015 it was announced that Blythe would be moving to Template:Cycling data SAX for the 2016 season, where he would be reunited with directeur sportif Sean Yates, who worked with Blythe during his time with NFTO.[14]

With Template:Cycling data SAX folding at the end of 2016, Blythe joined the Template:Cycling data ABS squad for its inaugural season in 2017.[15] Following the announcement of Template:Cycling data ABS's collapse, in September 2018 Blythe announced that he would return to Template:Cycling data LTS for the 2019 season, linking up with former Template:Cycling data OBE teammate Caleb Ewan as part of the latter's sprint train, with an additional role as a domestique for the team's classics squad.[16]

In October 2019, Blythe announced that he would retire at the end of the season.[1]

Post-racing career

Blythe is a pundit for Eurosport's coverage of cycling, having worked part-time in this role on the channel's coverage of the Grand Tours during his final professional season in 2019.[17] He was also "on-site" reporter for NBC Sports' coverage of the 2020 Tour de France,[18] and fulfilled that role again in 2021.[19]

In November 2019, Blythe announced that he was taking up a role with David Millar's cycling clothing brand CHPT3 as a product marketing executive.[17]

Personal life

He currently lives in Bollington, Cheshire, England.[20]

Major results

Road

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2006
3rd National Criterium Championships
2007
1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall Driedaagse van Axel
1st Sprints classification
1st Points classification
1st Combination classification
1st Stages 1 & 4
1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne Juniores
6th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
2008
Tour of Hong Kong Shanghai
1st Stages 2 & 3b
2009
1st Circuit du Port de Dunkerque
1st Stage 7 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
2nd Grote 1-MeiPrijs
5th Antwerpse Havenpijl
2010 (4 pro wins)
1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
1st File:Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stages 1 & 3
1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
3rd Omloop van het Houtland
4th Grand Prix de Fourmies
4th Schaal Sels
2011
2nd Houtem–Vilvoorde[21]
3rd Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
4th Overall Ronde van Drenthe
1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
7th Overall Tour de Wallonie-Picarde
2012 (2)
1st Binche–Tournai–Binche
1st Stage 1 Paris–Corrèze
2nd Omloop van het Houtland
3rd Handzame Classic
4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
10th Overall Tour of Qatar
2013
4th Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
2014 (1)
1st File:MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Criterium Championships
1st RideLondon–Surrey Classic
1st Otley GP[22]
1st Ipswich and Coastal GP[23]
1st Circuit of the Fens[24]
1st Jersey International Road Race[25]
2nd Beverley GP[26]
3rd Beaumont Trophy
6th Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic
2015
2nd Stafford GP
3rd Overall Tour de Korea
2016 (1)
1st File:MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Championships
2017
2nd Nokere Koerse
2nd Handzame Classic
4th Ronde van Drenthe
2018 (1)
1st Elfstedenronde
2nd Road race, National Championships
5th Handzame Classic
7th Ronde van Limburg
9th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia DNF DNF — 166 — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France Did not contest during his career
A red jersey Vuelta a España — — — — — — — 155
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

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2006
1st File:UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships
National Junior Championships
1st File:MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Scratch
2nd Points race
2nd Madison, National Championships (with Matthew Rowe)
2007
1st File:UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships
1st File:MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Luke Rowe)
1st UIV Cup, Six Days of Ghent (with Peter Kennaugh)
National Junior Championships
2nd Scratch
3rd Points race
2013
2nd Madison, National Championships (with Peter Kennaugh)
2014
2nd Team pursuit, National Championships

References

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External links

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