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The British National Hill Climb Championship is a hill climbing competition held annually by Cycling Time Trials with the location varying year on year. The first edition was in 1944 and it has been won by some of the best all-round British cyclists, such as Brian Robinson , Paul Curran , Malcolm Elliot , Chris Boardman and Jeff Williams .
An Oxford University Cycling Club rider on his way to a hillclimbing victory. Hill climbing is a cycling event, as well as a basic skill of the sport. As events a hill climb may either be an individual time trial (which forbids cooperation, drafting, or team tactics) or make up part of a regular road race. A hill climb usually represents an ...
Ronnie Stringwell is a former amateur cyclist who won the British National Hill Climb Championships at the age of 22 in 1950, and retained the title in 1951. [1] A member of Bramley Wheelers Cycling Club in Leeds, his career was short-lived.
The British Hillclimb Championship (BHC) is the most prestigious hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. The British Hill Climb Championship was held every year from 1947 to 2019, and resumed in 2021. The 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [citation needed] All British Champions have been British.
In 1979 Williams won his first British National Hill Climb Championships [2] setting a new course record that still stands to this day. [3] A rival, Andy Hitchens, who remembers it well, said: "Williams looked like he'd been on starvation rations for months — he was built like a sparrow.
Pullar won the British National Hill Climb Championships in 2012. Pullar was part of the Scottish national team during the 2014 Commonwealth Games [4] where he competed in the Men’s Road Race alongside David Millar, Evan Oliphant and Andrew Fenn, although he failed to finish in a race of attrition with only twelve finishers. [5]
Barbon Hillclimb is a hillclimb held near Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, north-west England.The event is held on the Barbon Manor estate with the course ordinarily being used as a driveway to Barbon Manor, a Victorian shooting lodge.
He joined Rutland Cycling Club in Sheffield at 15 where he was selected for the British team for the world junior championship in Argentina in 1979. In 1980 riding for Rutland CC, Elliott won the British National Hill Climb Championships , beating Jeff Williams by one fifth of a second.