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Matt Cronshaw
- 30/12/1988
- Carnforth, Lancashire
Fifth overall at the 2006 Junior Tour of Wales, where he also won a stage, Lancashireman Cronshaw marked himself out as one to watch in 2007 when he came third at the National Circuit Race Championships behind James McCallum and Ed Clancy.
Cronshaw, who has worked as a class room assistant in a local school, dominated the Liverpool Echo Star Trophy in 2008, taking victory in the season long competition by over twenty points.
- Describe yourself as a rider in one sentence:
- Quietly confident.
- Your best moment in cycling?
- Winning a stage of the Tour de Beauce.
- Worst moment in cycling?
- Crashing out of the Sun Tour.
- Favourite race you've ridden?
- Tour of the North.
- Who would play you in a movie of your life?
- Brian Blessed.
- Cycling hopes for 2010?
- To improve my stage racing, be consistently in the top 10 in Premier Calendars, podium in elite crits.
- Favourite Music Album?
- Once in a life time - Talking Heads
- Favourite Film?
- Old School
- How do you relax?
- By avoiding anything that looks the slightest bit stressful.
- I am a cyclist because…?
- I am a cyclist because its what I love doing!
- If I weren't a cyclist I'd be…?
- If I wasn't a cyclist I would be fat and probably work in some sort of design department.
- How would you like to be remembered?
- I'd just like to be remembered.
- An interesting fact people are unlikely to know about you:
- I was Lancaster Sports Day welly throwing champion 2002!
Palmares
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2006 | 1st Stage 2, Junior Tour of Wales |
| 2008 | 1st Liverpool Echo Star Trophy |
| 2009 | 1st, stage, Tour de Beauce |
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