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My Take
Chris Boardman is one of those athletes whose mind impressed me as much as his legs. Winning individual pursuit gold at the 1992 Olympics and breaking the world hour record three times would already make him a legend, but it's his engineering instinct that fascinates me most. He treated cycling as a problem to be solved, obsessing over aerodynamics and equipment, and that thinking helped reshape how the sport approaches speed. The MBE and his Tour de France yellow jerseys confirm the pedigree. I see him as a bridge between raw competition and innovation, the rare champion who kept influencing the sport long after he stopped racing.
Overview
Christopher Miles Boardman, (born 26 August 1968) is an English former racing cyclist. A time trial and prologue specialist, Boardman won the inaugural men's World time trial championship in 1994, won the individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, broke the world hour record three times, and won three prologue stages (and consequently wore the yellow jersey on three occasions) at the Tour de France.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Chris Boardman
- Name (Japanese)
- クリス・ボードマン
- Reading
- くりす・ぼーどまん
- Born
- August 26, 1968 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- Hoylake, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 175 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- track cyclist / sport cyclist / engineer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Hilbre High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.