Rod Ellingworth has as we speak been introduced because the race director of the newly packaged Tour of Britain occasions.
The 51-year-old, who resigned as deputy workforce principal of Ineos Grenadiers in November final 12 months, will take up the position with British Biking, returning to the federation he final labored for eight years in the past.
British Biking took over management of the Tour of Britain final month, following the collapse of the earlier race organiser, SweetSpot. In doing so, it relaunched the Girls’s Tour because the Tour of Britain Girls, the race that can mark Ellingworth’s first obligation on 6-9 June.
“This can be a new position and a brand new set of expertise for me, however I’ve been inspired and supported by different race administrators within the sport,” he stated in an announcement. “I’ve spent a superb portion of my life on the highway on the sport’s largest races, and might be drawing on all of that have to make the Excursions of Britain the easiest they are often.”
A former bicycle owner himself, Ellingworth first joined British Biking as a coach in 2002, and went on to assist arrange the Olympic academy programme. Alongside his work with the squad, he was concerned within the unique arrange of Crew Sky in 2010, guiding the workforce to seven Tour de France victories between 2012 and 2019.
Ellingworth stopped working with British Biking in 2017, following the Rio Olympics, and joined Bahrain-McLaren as workforce principal for a 12 months in 2020, earlier than returning to Ineos as deputy principal.
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“Certainly one of my early biking recollections is being on the UCI Highway World Championships at Goodwood Circuit in 1982, and that have lit a hearth in me which has continued to burn day-after-day since,” he stated. “I understand how worthwhile and life-changing the expertise and recollections of main biking occasions may be, and really feel extremely privileged to now have the chance to play such a significant position in the way forward for the Excursions of Britain.”
Ellingworth added that he’s now excited to “play my half in defending and rising [the events] for the following technology”.
“Because the son of an occasion organiser and the dad of a younger boy beginning his personal journey as a rider, I really feel an actual duty to get this proper, but additionally big pleasure in regards to the begin of a brand new chapter and problem within the sport,” he stated.
Particulars of the route of the four-stage Tour of Britain Girls might be launched within the coming weeks, in response to British Biking. The lads’s race is predicted to happen in September.
