Keith Lambert was born on 12 June 1947 and is a twice former British cycling champion and manager of the British under-23 road race team.
12 Facts About Keith Lambert
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Keith Lambert rode the 1972 UCI Road World Championships which took place on the 6 August 1972 in Gap, France but punctured twice and did not finish.
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Keith Lambert signed with the Holdsworth cycling team for 1974 alongside Les West and Colin Lewis and won the British National Road Race Championships for the first time that year.
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At the 1979 World Championship at Valkenburg aan de Geul Keith Lambert finished in 26th place of just 44 riders finishing including no other British finishers.
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In 1980 Keith Lambert signed with Weinmann and finished third in the Druivenkoers Overijse behind Fons De Wolf and Rudy Pevenage and Keith Lambert pipped Bill Nickson to the 1980 National Road Championship by an inch for his second British champion title in Redditch.
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Keith Lambert joined Falcon in 1981 and then spent six seasons there.
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Keith Lambert rode the 1982 World Championship at Goodwood and in 1983 Lambert won the National Criterium Championships.
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In total Keith Lambert won 64 professional races between 1972 and 1987.
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Keith Lambert was manager at Brite and signed Chris Newton, Rob Hayles, Jon Clay, Bryan Steel and Matt Illingworth.
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Keith Lambert became assistant team manager at Linda McCartney Racing Team to Sean Yates and was in the team car when David McKenzie won his stage at the 2000 Giro d'Italia.
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In 2008 Shane Sutton who was with British Cycling rang Keith Lambert and asked him to look after the 'foreign based riders' in the British Road Race Championships such as David Millar, Mark Cavendish, Roger Hammond and Jeremy Hunt.
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From 2011 Keith Lambert started full time with British Cycling looking after the u23 team where he would work with riders such as Simon Yates and Tom Pidcock, before retiring at the end of the 2019 season.