Oliver's Real Food Racing

Oliver's Real Food Racing is a UCI Continental team founded in 2010 that is based in Australia. It competes in its home country as well as in the UCI Asia Tour. The team gained UCI Continental status for the 2018 season.[1][2][3] It is managed by former rider Samuel Layzell and was originally founded in Newcastle, NSW.[4]

Oliver's Real Food Racing
Team information
UCI codeOLI
RegisteredAustralia
Founded2010 (2010)
Discipline(s)Road
StatusNational (2010–2017)
UCI Continental (2018–)
Key personnel
General managerSamuel Layzell
Team name history
2010–2012
2013–2014
2015–
Two Wheel Industries
Paradice Investment Cycling Team
Oliver's Real Food Racing

Team history

The team had a breakthrough season in 2017. In January Logan Griffin took second place overall to Joseph Cooper at the New Zealand Cycle Classic.[5] Sprinter Sean Whitfield then took the team's first Union Cyclist International win at the 2.2 ranked le Tour de Filipinas in February.[6]

The mid-season recruitment of South African Brendon Davids helped continue the team's run of success. He took the team's first Australian National Road Series win at Battle Recharge in September.[7] This was followed by a win for Davids in the General Classification at the Union Cycliste Internationale 2.2 ranked Jelajah Malaysia. Davids won stage 3 of the race with a solo breakaway, and clinched the overall classification by 24 seconds over Colombian Víctor Niño. Teammate Ryan Thomas won the youth classification at the event.[8]

In 2019, William Hodges won the 59th edition of the Grafton to Inverell Cycle Classic.[9]

Team roster
As of 21 April 2020.[10]
Rider Date of birth
 Tom Bolton (AUS) (1998-11-20) 20 November 1998
 Kai Chapman (AUS) (1999-08-20) 20 August 1999
 Fintan Conway (AUS) (1999-04-12) 12 April 1999
 Brendon Davids (RSA) (1993-02-04) 4 February 1993
 Riley Fleming (AUS) (1999-08-09) 9 August 1999
 Will Hodges (AUS) (1997-04-30) 30 April 1997
 Campbell Jones (AUS) (1999-01-25) 25 January 1999
 Angus Lyons (AUS) (1996-01-12) 12 January 1996
Rider Date of birth
 Karl Michelin-Beard (AUS) (1994-10-14) 14 October 1994
 Conor Murtagh (AUS) (1993-07-10) 10 July 1993
 Callum Pearce (AUS) (1998-01-04) 4 January 1998
 Sebastian Presley (AUS) (1998-01-23) 23 January 1998
 Jack Sykes (AUS) (2000-02-17) 17 February 2000
 Liam White (AUS) (1994-11-09) 9 November 1994
 Sean Whitfield (AUS) (1995-05-11) 11 May 1995

Major results
2018
Stage 1 New Zealand Cycle Classic, Nicholas Reddish
2019
Stage 4 New Zealand Cycle Classic, Jesse Featonby
Stage 2 PRUride PH, Brendon Davids
Stage 1 Tour of Indonesia, Angus Lyons

References
  1. "Oliver's Real Food 2018".
  2. "Oliver's Real Food 2017".
  3. "Oliver's Real Food 2016".
  4. Oliver's Real Food Racing (17 July 2016), Interview with Sam Layzell, retrieved 15 January 2018
  5. "Report Stage 5". www.cycletournz.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  6. News, ABS-CBN. "Cycling: Australia's Whitfield takes Stage 2 of Le Tour". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  7. "Davids destroys NRS field at Battle Recharge". Cycling. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  8. "Jelajah Malaysia 2017". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  9. "Hodges triumphs in brutal Grafton to Inverell". Cycling. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  10. "Oliver's Real Food Racing". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
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