PROFILE
- Born: 25th May 1986
- Team:Team Sky
- Place of birth: Cardiff, Wales
Geraint started cycling after seeing an advert for the Maindy Flyers, a cycling club in South Wales, and decided to go along and try it out. He got off to a flying start, breaking the newcomers lap record and was instantly hooked travelling to races across the UK with the club.
After joining the Olympic Academy Programme in 2005, Geraint’s cycling has gone from strength to strength. In 2007 he signed with Barloworld and went on to win a Gold medal at the World Championships in Mallorca.
Geraint was the youngest rider in the 2007 Tour de France as Team Barloworld picked up one of the three wildcard spots allocated for the race and was the first Welsh rider to compete in the race since Colin Lewis in 1967.
In 2008 Geraint chose to ride the Giro d’Italia rather than the Tour De France before returning to Britain to concentrate on preparations for the Beijing Olympics. After setting a World Record in the heats with a time of 3:55:202 the Olympic team pursuit squad beat their Russian opponents comfortably to go through to the final ride-off for Silver and Gold. The following day they broke their own world record in a time of 3:53:314, beating their Danish competitors by a huge 6.7 second margin to win Gold.
