Seamus Elliott
Seamus Elliott in 1963
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| Full name | Seamus Elliott | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Shay | ||||||||||||
| Born |
4 June 1934 Dublin, Irish Free State |
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| Died | 4 May 1971 (aged 36) Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
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| -1955 | Dublin Wheelers | ||||||||||||
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| 1956–1958 | Helyett-Potin | ||||||||||||
| 1959–1961 | Helyett-Fynsec | ||||||||||||
| 1962–1964 | Saint Raphael-Geminiani | ||||||||||||
| 1965 | Ford France-Gitane | ||||||||||||
| 1966–1967 | Mercier-BP-Hutchinson | ||||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Did not ride | ||||||||||||
| 1970 | Falcon | ||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||
 Irish National Road Race Championship (1954, 1955)Tour de France 1 stage (1963) Giro d'Italia 1 stage (1960) Vuelta a España 2 stages (1962, 1963) Omloop Het Volk (1959) |
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Seamus 'Shay' Elliott (4 June 1934 – 4 May 1971) was an Irish road bicycle racer.
Shay Elliott was the first Irish cyclist to make a mark as a professional rider in continental Europe. A talented rider, he spent most of his career riding as a domestique for stars such as Jacques Anquetil and Jean Stablinski. He won stages in all the Grand Tours and was 2nd (to Stablinski) in the 1962 World Road Championship at Salò, Italy.
He was the first Irishman to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France (1963) and he came third in the 1962 Vuelta a España. He won the Omloop "Het Volk" semi-classic in 1959.
Elliott was the eldest son of James and Ellen Elliott. He played Gaelic football and hurling and didn't learn to ride a bicycle until he was 14. He used it to ride to the town of Naas. He joined a small cycling club attached to St Brendan's Church, Coolock, when he was 16 and took part in races of about 20 miles that the church organised around the city streets. He came second in his first race,riding a scrap bike with a single fixed wheel that led his pedals to bang the road on corners. The winner had a specialised racing bike.
Elliott joined the Southern Road Club when he was 17 and, on a racing bike, won the Grand Prix of Ireland run over 50 km in the Phoenix Park. The club broke up soon afterwards and Elliott joined the Dublin Wheelers in March 1952. That summer he won the Mannin Veg, a race over one lap of the TT motorcycling circuit on the Isle of Man. He also won the Dublin-Galway-Dublin two-day race, winning the race back to Dublin in a sprint.
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