News – Dave Rayner Funding 27 Riders

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The Dave Rayner Fund Committee has selected the 27 riders that will receive support during the season 2016.

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News – Dave Rayner Funding 27 Riders

The Dave Rayner Fund Committee has selected the 27 riders that will receive support during the season 2016. The Dave Rayner Fund, with the support from individuals, companies clubs and organisations who have donated over the past 21 years continue to help young riders in the sport of cycling.

“Whatever the outcome we know that all of these riders will be able to broaden their horizons to an extent that they would not have if they had stayed in the UK” says the Fund.
“We do always hope that some of the riders funded go on to be successful professionals as it is examples such as Adam Yates, Dan Martin, Dan McLay, Mark McNally, Matt Brammeier, Nikki Harris etc that fuel the interest of everyone who supports the Fund”.

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TAO GEOGHEGAN HART – a funded rider again in 2016

The funded riders in numbers
17 have been funded before, 10 of them are first timers.
26 male and 1 female
5 to Italy
11 to Belgium
4 to France
4 to USA
3 Summer Funded riders will probably also go to Belgium
6 are first year U23

The riders are:

SCOTT AULD
Second year U23 from Stockton on Tees was funded last year to go to Italy with Zappis Racing Team. His performances merited a second years support by the Dave Rayner Fund.

JACK BILLYARD
is a first year U23 from Devizes in Wiltshire. He performed well as a Junior and is also going to Italy with Zappis Racing Team.

TOM BRACEGIRDLE
is a 21 year old from Lymm in Cheshire. He goes back to Belgium where he joins the Goma Dakwerken-VDB Steenhouwerij Cycling Team.

ALEX BRAYBROOKE
 is a first year U23 from Wilmslow in Cheshire and goes to Belgium to race with Lotto Soudal U23 Team

CHRISTOPHER DREDGE
 from Milton Keynes had a short trial in Belgium after finishing his University Studies now and goes to Belgium for the 2016 with Nieuwe Hoop Tielen Cycling Team

CALLUM FERGUSON
 spent last year in Italy with Zappis Racing Team. The 20 year old from Bromsgrove spends season 2016 again with them where he has been promoted to Road Captain

DAN GARDNER
 from West Sussex is spending his 2nd Year as U23 with Astellas Cycling Team in the USA. He had some great results and represented his Team at the World Championships in Richmond at the TTTT.

TAO GEOGHEGAN HART
 is remaining in the USA Axeon Hagens Berman Cycling Team for the 3rd season. He had a stagiare contract with Sky Pro Cycling at the end of 2015 and we will be hoping he has another opportunity again by the end of 2016.

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Jessie Walker, another funded rider and racing in Italy again in 2016

LEON GLEDHILL
from Huddersfield is going to the USA to join the Team Cycle Sport Specialized p/b Muscle Milk.

DUNCAN HEYWOOD
the 20 year old from Cornwall goes back to Belgium to join Team De Jonge Rakkers Vollezele.

ROBERT HOGG
first year U23 from Somerset is going to go abroad during the summer months.

TAYLOR JOHNSTONE
returns to Belgium. This season he joins the Baguet MIBAA -Indulek- Derito Cycling Team.

ANDREW LEIGH
After 2 years already in Belgium Andrew from Urmston in Manchester has made a big step up to the Continental Team Colba Superano Ham in Belgium.

ADAM LEWIS
 from Willenhall is going in to his third year in Belgium and joins Nieuwe Hoop Tielen.

LEON MAZZONE
 from the Isle of Man had a great start in Belgium with Illi Bikes Cycling Team and joins them again for his 2nd year.

PETER MERRITT
 from Kent is going to Belgium for his first season as U23. He joins Goma Dakwerken-VDB Steenhouwerij Cycling Team.

LOUIS MODELL
 from Hackney in London is joining Zappis Cycling Team in Italy for his first season as U23.

OLIVER MOORS
 from West Sussex will go abroad for the first time to Astellas Cycling Team in the USA. He is 2nd year U23.

MATTHEW NOWELL
 had a month in Belgium in 2015 and will go there again as soon as his studies at Sheffield University are done. His aim is to do well enough to join a Team abroad for 2017.

KIERAN SAVAGE
is a student at Sheffield University and will go to Belgium for a couple of months in summer during the mid-summer break.

JACOB SCOTT
 from Holmfirth had fantastic season in Belgium in 2015 with Illi Bikes Cycling Team. His performances earned him a place in the Sean Kelly An Post Continental Team this season.

JAMES SHAW
 from Heanor had a great first year with Lotto Soudal U23 in 2015 and returns to Belgium with them this season.

MAX SPEDDING
 a first year from Heswall on the Wirral is going to France to join Entente Cyclisme Moselle 57.

DANIEL STEWART
 from Belfast steps up this year to the Sean Kelly An Post Chain Reaction Continental Team.

MATTHEW TEGGART
 2nd year U23 from Banbridge spends another season in France with AC Bisontine.

JESSIE WALKER
from Sheffield returns to Italy to race with Team Servetto Footon the team she joined halfway through last season. Her big aim is to do well in the Giro Rosa a race she completed in 2015 a week after joining the Team!

JESSE YATES
from Forest Row is a 2nd year U23 and goes to France to race with Team UCL Hennebont.

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