Liam Killeen
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| Full name | Liam Killeen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Killa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 April 1982 Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK |
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| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Specialized Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | MTB & Cyclo-cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | XC & Cyclo-cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2005–2008 | Specialized | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Trek World Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012– | Giant Factory Off-Road Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 British Mountain Biking National Champion 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011Commonwealth Games 2006 British Cyclo-cross National Champion (2016) |
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Liam Killeen (born 12 April 1982), is a British professional mountain biker. He represented England in cross country racing at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 where he came 3rd, and became Commonwealth Champion in 2006. He has won the British Mountain Biking National Champion over five consecutive years; 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He competed for Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics and was chosen as the sole male cross-country rider for the British team for the London Games in 2012.
Killeen had been interested in cycling from a young age, but a trip to the Malvern Classic introduced him to cross-country cycling when he was about thirteen. He had previously been interested in .
Having won multiple titles both at the junior and Under-23 levels, he competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where he took the bronze medal. Despite having won his first major medal at the international level, he continued to compete in Under-23 events, winning the silver medal at the Under-23 World Championship in 2004.
Prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics, he won the test event on the Olympic track in Greece. Competing in the Games themselves for the British team, he was held up by a crash early on in the race and ended up finishing in fifth place, outside of the medal spots.
He returned to the English team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. Having placed third at the previous Games, he went two places better, taking the gold medal for his country. In 2007, he suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome and could not compete for an entire season.
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