Sid Barras

Sid Barras
Personal information
Full name	Sidney Barras
Nickname	Super Sid^[1]
Born	(1948-04-03) 3 April 1948 England United Kingdom
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
1970	Bantel - Raleigh
1971–1973	Bantel
1974	TI - Raleigh
1975–1977	Bantel
1978	Viking - Campagnolo
1979	Carlton - Weinmann
1980	Weinmann - Chicken
1981	Coventry Eagle - Campagnolo
1982–1984	Falcon - Campagnolo
1985–1986	Moducel
1987	Watertech - Dawes
Major wins
British National Road Race Champion (1979)
Infobox last updated on 20 December 2007

Sid Barras (born 3 April 1948)^[2]^[3] is an English former professional road racing cyclist from Middlesbrough, Cleveland.^[4] He was a professional for 18 years. One of Britain's foremost racing cyclists in the 1970s and 1980s with 380 wins,^[5] in 18 years as a professional. He was national champion three times and won a stage of the Tour of Majorca and in the 1973 Tour of Switzerland.^[6]

In 1999, Barras was directeur sportif of the British UCI division 3 team, Men's Health.^[7] He was manager of Recycling.co.uk in 2007.^[8]

He won the national over-50 championship in 2008.^[9] In 2009, he was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.^[10]

Barras is father of professional cyclist, Tom Barras.^[1]

Palmarès

1970: 4th British National Road Race Championships (Professional); 1st London – Holyhead

1971: 2nd British National Road Race Championships (Professional); 2nd Tom Simpson Memorial (Harworth); 2nd British National Stayers Championships

1973: 1st Stage 10, Tour de Suisse; 1st Tom Simpson Memorial (Harworth)

1974: 1st Tom Simpson Memorial (Harworth)

1976: 2nd British National Road Race Championships (Professional)

1977: 5th British National Road Race Championships (Professional)

1979: 1st British National Road Race Championships (Professional); 1st British National Circuit Race Championships (Professional)

1980: 1st Tom Simpson Memorial (Harworth); 2nd British National Road Race Championships (Professional)

1981: 4th British National Road Race Championships (Professional)

References

1 2 "Sid Barras: Famous Last Words". Cycling Weekly. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
↑ "Profile". cyclingwebsite.net.
↑ "Profile". cyclebase.nl.
↑ "Register of Births, Deaths & Marriages". Tees Valley Indexes.
↑ "Newport Nocturn". cyclingnews.com. 1 September 2007.
↑ "Riders:B". Professional Cycling Palmarès Site.
↑ The Independent, UK, 29 April 1999
↑ "Recycling.co.uk / MG-xPower / Litespeed". world-of-cycling.com. 2005.
↑ "Barras proved he's still a class act". The Telegraph and Argus. 2008-09-09.
↑ "50 Cycling Heroes Named in British Cycling's Hall of Fame". British Cycling. 2009-12-17.

British National Road Race Champions (men)

NCU (1938–1958)	Jack Holmes (1938) Jack Fancourt (1939) Reg Braddick (1944) J. A. O'Driscoll (1945) Ernie Clements (1946) Alex Taylor (1947) Bob Maitland (1948) A D Newman (1949) Gordon Thomas (1950) Peter Procter (1951) Graham Vines (1952) Ted Gerrard (1953) B J Sandy (1954) Bernard King (1955) Alan Jackson (1956) Ron Coe (1957 Independent) Stan Brittain (1957 Amateur) Bill Seggar (1958)

BLRC (1943–1958)	Ernie Clements (1943) Percy Stallard (1944) Ernie Clements (1945) George Edwards (1946) E I Upton (1947) R C Ashwin (1948) Dave Bedwell (1949) Ralph Parkin (1950) Charlie Bland (1951) Mike Howarth (1952) Derek Evans (1953) Reg Browne (1954) Des Robinson (1955) Mike England (1956) Charlie Mather (1957) Bill Baty (1958)

BLRC Independent (1946–1958)	A H Clarke (1946) Dennis Jaggard (1947) Harold Johnson (1948) Bob Thom (1949) Leonard West (1950) Dave Bedwell (1951) Ian Steel (1952) Bob Maitland (1953) Arthur Ilsley (1954) Graham Vines (1955) not held in 1956 Ron Coe (1958–1957)

Amateur (1959–1995)	Bill Baty (1959) Bill Bradley (1960–(1961) Keith Butler (1962) Bob Addy (1963) Pete Gordon (1964) Les West (1965) Arthur Metcalfe (1966) Les West (1967) Pete Matthews (1968) Brian Jolly (1969) Dave Rollinson (1970–1971) Doug Dailey (1972) Grant Thomas (1973) Bill Nickson (1974) Kevin Apter (1975) Doug Dailey (1976) Steve Lawrence (1977) Robert Millar (1978–1979) Steve Lawrence (1980) Mark Bell (1981) Jeff Williams (1982) John Cavanagh (1983) Neil Martin (1984) Paul Watson (1985) Deno Davie (1986) Paul Curran (1987) Neil Hoban (1988) David Cook (1989) Simeon Hempsall (1990) John Hughes (1991) Simon Bray (1992) Rob Harris (1993–1994) Simon Bray (1995)

Professional (1959–1995)	Ron Coe (1959) race was not held in 1960 Dave Bedwell (1961) John Harvey (1962) Bert Hitchen (1963) Keith Butler (1964) Albert Hitchen (1965) Dick Goodman (1966) Colin Lewis (1967–1968) Bill Lawrie (1969) Les West (1970) Danny Horton (1971) Gary Crewe (1972) Brian Jolly (1973) Keith Lambert (1974) Les West (1975) Geoff Wiles (1976) Phil Edwards (1977) Phil Corley (1978) Sid Barras (1979) Keith Lambert (1980) Bill Nickson (1981) John Herety (1982) Phil Thomas (1983) Steve Joughin (1984) Ian Banbury (1985) Mark Bell (1986) Paul Sherwen (1987) Steve Joughin (1988) Tim Harris (1989) Colin Sturgess (1990) Brian Smith (1991) Sean Yates (1992) Malcolm Elliott (1993) Brian Smith (1994) Robert Millar (1995)

1996–	Dave Rand (1996) Jeremy Hunt (1997) Matt Stephens (1998) John Tanner (1999–2000) Jeremy Hunt (2001) Julian Winn (2002) Roger Hammond (2003–2004) Russell Downing (2005) Hamish Haynes (2006) David Millar (2007) Rob Hayles (2008) Kristian House (2009) Geraint Thomas (2010) Bradley Wiggins (2011) Ian Stannard (2012) Mark Cavendish (2013) Peter Kennaugh (2014–2015) Adam Blythe (2016)

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