Zachary Bell
 Bell at the 2014 Tour of Alberta | ||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Zachary Bell | |||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Zach | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
November 14, 1982 Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) | |||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team SmartStop | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track and road | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||
| Rider type |
Endurance (track) Sprinter (road) | |||||||||||||||
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| 2005 | Jet Fuel Coffee-Sympatico | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Rite Aid Pro Cycling | |||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Symmetrics | |||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Kelly Benefit Strategies | |||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | SpiderTech-C10 | |||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Champion System | |||||||||||||||
| 2014– | Team SmartStop | |||||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||||
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UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Omnium (2010–2011) National Road Race Championships (2013) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Infobox last updated on April 18, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||
Zachary "Zach" Bell (born November 14, 1982) is a Canadian professional racing cyclist from Watson Lake, Yukon. He was born in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Bell joined Team SmartStop for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Champion System – folded at the end of the 2013 season.[1]
Notable results
- Finished 7th at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's points race and 12th in the men's madison (cycling).[2]
- Finished 2nd in the men's omnium at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne.[3]
- Finished 8th in the men's omnium at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4]
Career highlights
- 2003
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Delta
- 2004
- 2nd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
- 2005
- 1st Stampede Road Race
- 2006
- 1st Stage 7 Tour of Shenandoah
- 2007
- 1st Overall Tour de Delta
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st Burnaby Six Days
- Vuelta a El Salvador
- 1st Stages 4 & 7
- Tour de Bowness
- 1st Criterium
- 1st Hill Climb
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de White Rock
- 2nd Pan-American Time Trial Championships
- 2nd National Criterium Championships
- 2nd Track World Cup, Sydney – Scratch
- 3rd National Time Trial Championships
- 2008
- 1st Burnaby Six Days
- Pan-American Track Championships
- 1st Madison
- 1st Omnium
- 2009
- 1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
- 2013
- 1st
National Road Race Championships - 1st Stage 4 Tour de Taiwan
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de Korea
- 3rd National Time Trial Championships
- 2014
- 3rd Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
References
- ↑ Malach, Pat (November 7, 2013). "Team SmartStop unveils re-vamped roster for 2014". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved December 23, 2013.
New signings for the UCI Continental team next season include Canadian national road race champion Zach Bell, who won stages at the Tour of Korea and Tour of Taiwan in 2013 while riding for Champion System, and former Bissell rider Mike Torckler, who won the mountains classification at the 2013 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.
- ↑ "Olympics Fan Guide, Zach Bell". www.espn.go.com. 2008.
- ↑ "Canada's Zach Bell wins silver at world track cycling championships". www.theglobeandmail.com. 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
- ↑ "Canada's Zach Bell places 8th in men's omnium". www.cbc.ca. 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
External links
- Zachary Bell profile at Cycling Archives
- COC Profile
- Official website
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