Rachel Heal
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Infobox cyclist tracking".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Rachel Elisabeth Heal (born 1 April 1973) is an English former racing cyclist, who currently works a directeur sportif for UCI Women's Continental Team Template:Cycling data TIB.[1]
Career
Professional career
Heal originally took up cycling when she was at Birmingham University as a means of transportation.[2] She joined British Cycling's World Class Performance Plan in 2001[2] to become a full-time cyclist. She turned professional and rode for the Farm Frites team after obtaining a degree in chemical engineering. She has competed in world championships, Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games. Heal is also a British Cycling level 2 coach, and a qualified personal trainer.
Management career
Heal switched to management when she became co-director of the Template:Cycling data Colavita team in 2010 alongside team-mate Tina Pic, replacing Iona Wynter.[2][3] After the Colavita team disbanded at the end of 2011, Heal became director of the new Template:Cycling data RLW team for 2012.[4] Heal left the team at the end of 2013 to join Template:Cycling data UHC2,[5] where she made history in 2014 as the first British woman to direct a men's team at a world tour event.
Major results
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- 2001
- 2nd Points race, British National Track Championships
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2002
- 1st Stage 5 Gracia–Orlová
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 2nd WCRA 2 day, Leicestershire
- 3rd Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 2003
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Points race
- 3rd Individual pursuit
- 3rd Ronde van Drenthe
- 2004
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de l'Aude Féminin
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Holland Ladies Tour
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 3rd Points race, National Track Championships
- 7th Australia World Cup
- 2005
- 1st Omnium, Aztec Track Meet
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Scratch
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 2006
- 1st Tri Peaks Stage Race
- 1st Tour of Elk Grove Crit
- 4th Overall Tour of the Gila
- Commonwealth Games
- 5th Road race
- 5th Time trial
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Toona
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 7th Women's Cycling Criteriums
- 2008
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of the Gila
- 3rd Sea Otter Classic
- 2009
- 7th Sea Otter Circuit Race
References
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External links
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Bebington
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- English female cyclists
- British female cyclists
- Alumni of the University of Birmingham
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in cycling