Ian Stannard: Rider Profile

• Tuesday, 8 March 2011
• Andrew Canning and Will Irwin
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IAN STANNARD
Date of birth: 25/05/1987
From: Chelmsford
Team: Sky
Previous teams: ISD (2009); Landbouwkrediet (2008); T-Mobile (2007)

Ian Stannard career profile
Ian Stannard is the youngest of all the current crop of British professionals.

Stannard made a breakthrough on the road in 2007, riding the latter part of the season as a stagiare for the T-Mobile team and winning the Milano-Brusetto race.

The young Briton then joined the Belgian Landbouwkrediet team, which although not a ProTour team, was more beneficial for Stannard as it allowed him to ride some of the Classics in the early part of the season, something which would not have been possible at a bigger team. Stannard used this opportunity to his advantage, riding and completing the Tour of Flanders, Ghent-Wevelgem and Paris-Roubaix: no mean feat for a neo-pro.

Stannard is also a strong track rider, becoming Under-23 European team pursuit champion in 2006.

Stannard then joined the new British-backed Sky team for 2010 after a year spent with the Italo-Ukranian ISD outfit.

Stannard's move to Sky seemed to be working for him in 2010, with his most eye-catching performance coming in the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne - he recorded a third place finish, following a successful breakaway move. Stannard topped that in 2011 with a stage win in the Tour of Austria from an escape group.

Ian Stannard results
2011
Tour of Austria; stage five

2010
Tour of Qatar, stage 1 TTT
British National Road Race Championships, 3rd
Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne, 3rd

2009
Settimana Coppi e Bartali, stage 1 TTT

2008
Tour of Britain, 3rd

2007
Milano-Brusetto
Eddy Soens memorial race

2006
Under-23 European team pursuit champion

Ian Stannard photos
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