Herety riding for Coop-Mercier in 1982 |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | John P Herety | ||
| Nickname | The Galloping Gourmet | ||
| Born | 8 March 1958 England United Kingdom |
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| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Weight | 61 kg (130 lb; 9.6 st)[1] | ||
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| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||
| Amateur team(s) | |||
1981 |
Cheshire Road Club Abbotsford Park RC Altrincham RC-Rotalac Plastics ACBB |
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| Professional team(s) | |||
| 1982–1984 1985 1986 |
Coop-Mercier Ever Ready Percy Bilton |
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| Managerial team(s) | |||
–2005 2006–2007 2008 2009 |
Percy Bilton Great Britain recycling.co.uk Rapha Condor recycling.co.uk Rapha Condor |
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| Infobox last updated on 2 January 2010 |
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John P Herety (born 8 March 1958) is a former English racing cyclist. He rode for Great Britain in the Olympic Games and won the national road championship as an amateur and then a professional. He is currently manager of the Rapha Condor-Sharp cycling team.[2]
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Born in Cheadle, Cheshire (now in Greater Manchester), England, Herety joined Cheshire Road Club as a young teenager,.[3] His first win was in a Scouts' cyclo-cross race in Woodbank Park, Stockport.[4] He was coached by Harold "H" Nelson and trained regularly with other local riders destined for professional careers, notably Graham Jones, Paul Sherwen and Ian Binder. Further success followed as a junior. He was known as a sprinter but he also won after breaking clear of the main field.[5]
He came third in the in 1980 British National Road Race Championships and won the Manx Trophy. Herety, a chef, received a set of chef's knives when he won a stage of the 1980 Peace Race in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz), a city proud of its steelworks.[4] Herety finished 21st in the road race at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the race was won by Sergei Sukhoruchenkov.[6]
He then joined the French team, Athletic Club Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, Europe’s most successful sports club with fellow British riders Sean Yates and Jeff Williams, before turning professional for Mercier. In 1982 he won the Professional British National Road Race Championships .[5] After three seasons with Mercier Herety joined the British based professional team Ever Ready. In 1986 he then joined Percy Bilton riding alongside Bob Downs and Steve Joughin. The following season he won a stage in the Milk Race and was runner up in the British National Road Race Championships.
Herety became team manager of the Percy Bilton team after his racing career. He went on to become director of racing for British Cycling.[4] He resigned following an inquiry into the 2005 UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, when Charly Wegelius and Tom Southam were alleged to have helped Italian riders rather than those in the British team.[7] He was manager of Recycling.co.uk in 2006 and 2007, for 2008 this evolved into Rapha Condor recycling.co.uk and for 2009 became Rapha Condor.
Herety married Margaret (née Swinnerton) in winter 1983. Margaret is a sister to Paul, Catherine and Bernadette, all former international riders.[4]