Keith Lambert

Keith Lambert

Personal information
Born	(1947-06-12) 12 June 1947 Bradford, England
Team information
Current team	Great Britain Under-23 National Team
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider Directeur sportif
Professional teams
1971–1973	Falcon–Tighe
1974–1977	Holdsworth–Campagnolo
1978–1979	Viking–Campagnolo
1980	Weinmann-Chicken
1981–1984	Falcon–Campagnolo
1985	Elswick–Falcon–Maillard
1986	Falcon–Hutchinson
1987	Watertech–Dawes–Imp Sport
Managerial teams
1987	Watertech–Dawes–Imp Sport
1988–1989	P.M.S.–Interent–Dawes
1990–1993	Banana–Falcon
1994	Foremost Contract Furnisher
1995	Peugeot UK-Look-Bell
1998	Team Brite Voice
1999–2000	Linda McCartney Racing Team
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2013–	Great Britain Under-23 National Team

Keith Lambert (born 12 June 1947) is a twice former British cycling champion and manager of the British under-23 road race team.

Cycling career

Lambert signed his first professional cycling contract with Falcon cycling team in 1972 under Albert Hitchen the Falcon team manager. His first win as a pro was on Stage Two of the Tour of the West, into Penzance in Cornwall. He 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. 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. He raced and finished Paris-Roubaix in 1977 before signing for Viking in 1978. At the 1979 World Championship at Valkenburg aan de Geul Lambert finished in 26th place of just 44 riders finishing including no other British finishers. In 1980 Lambert signed with Weinmann and finished third in the Druivenkoers Overijse behind Fons De Wolf and Rudy Pevenage and Lambert pipped Bill Nickson to the 1980 National Road Championship by an inch for his second British champion title in Redditch. Lambert joined Falcon in 1981 and then spent six seasons there. He rode the 1982 World Championship at Goodwood and in 1983 Lambert won the National Criterium Championships. In total Lambert won 64 professional races between 1972 and 1987.

Management career

After his racing career Lambert moved into management and managed British Cycling’s u23 squad up for a decade until retiring after the 2019 UCI Road World Championships held in Harrogate in his home county. Prior to that he was manager of Banana-Falcon when Keith Reynolds won Stage One of the Tour of the Americas and at the Vuelta a Murcia where Dave Rayner finished seventh overall. Lambert would help Raynor earn a move to the continent in Jan Raas CLAS–Cajastur team and would later become a trustee of the Dave Raynor Fund. He was manager at Brite and signed Chris Newton, Rob Hayles, Jon Clay, Bryan Steel and Matt Illingworth. 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. In 2008 Shane Sutton who was with British Cycling rang 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. Following that he was asked to help Max Sciandri with the young British riders coming back from Italy for the Tour of Britain. From 2011 Lambert started full time with British Cycling looking after the u23 team where he would work with riders such as Simon Yates (cyclist) and Tom Pidcock, before retiring at the end of the 2019 season.

Major results

1974

1st Road race, National Road Championships

1975

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

1980

1st Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Druivenkoers-Overijse

1981

2nd London–Bradford

1983

2nd Road race, National Road Championships