Paul Watson (cyclist)

Paul Watson
Personal information
Born	(1962-05-05) 5 May 1962 (age 62) England United Kingdom
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1986	Raleigh - Weinmann
1987	ANC-Halfords
1988	Hitachi

Major wins
National Champion (1985)

Paul Watson (born 5 May 1962) is a former professional English road racing cyclist from Milton Keynes. He was national road race champion, raced in the Tour de France and made headlines finishing 6th in the Belgium classic La Flèche Wallonne.

Palmarès

Road

1984: 2nd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
1985: 14th World Championship road race (Amateur); 1st Stage 10 Milk Race, Halifax; 3rd Overall, Milk Race; Winner of the British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)
1986: 3rd Stage 11 Milk Race, Welwyn Garden City; 3rd in Stage 1 Mercian Two-Day; 3rd Overall, Mercian Two-Day
1987: 3rd La Marseillaise; 6th British National Road Race Championships (Professional); DNF- Tour de France; 3rd GP Besseges; 6th La Flèche Wallonne; 4th Overall, Milk Race; 5th Norwich Spring Classic

General classification results timeline

Race	1987
Giro d'Italia	—
Tour de France	DNF
Vuelta a España	—

Cyclo Cross

1981: 2nd British National Cyclo Cross Championships
1982: 4th British National Cyclo Cross Championships

External links

Paul Watson at Cycling Archives (archived)
"Cycle Base".
"Lunch with Paul Watson, Cycling Podcast, Episode 17".

Sources

v t e 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) William 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) Albert 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) William 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) Steve Cummings (2017) Connor Swift (2018) Ben Swift (2019) not held in 2020 Ben Swift (2021) Mark Cavendish (2022) Fred Wright (2023) Ethan Hayter (2024)

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