Sean Kelly

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sean Kelly
Occupation	Cyclist
Date Of Birth	May 24, 1956(1956-05-24)
Age	68
Birthplace	Carrick-on-Suir
Country	Ireland
Horoscope	Gemini

Sean Kelly Biography

Sean Kelly is one of the most popular and richest Cyclist who was born on May 24, 1956 in Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. A retired Irish road cyclist who was one of the most successful cyclist of the 1980’s.

He and Bradley Wiggins have both won the Paris-Nice race.

John James ‘Sean’ Kelly (born 24 May 1956) is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest classics riders of all time. From turning professional in 1977 until his retirement in 1994, he won nine monument classics, and 193 professional races in total. He won Paris–Nice seven years in a row and the first UCI Road World Cup in 1989. He won the 1988 Vuelta a España and had multiple wins in the Giro di Lombardia, Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Other victories include the Critérium International, Grand Prix des Nations and smaller tours including the Tour de Suisse, Tour of the Basque Country and Volta a Catalunya.

Kelly began cycling after his brother had started riding to school in September 1969. Joe rode and won local races and on 4 August 1970 Sean rode his own first race, at Kennedy Terrace in Carrickbeg, County Waterford, part of Carrick-on-Suir. The race was an eight-mile (13 km) handicap, which meant the weaker riders started first and the best last. Kelly set off three minutes before the backmarkers. He was still three minutes ahead when the course turned for home after four miles (6 km) and more than three minutes in the lead when he crossed the line. At 16 he won the national junior championship at Banbridge, County Down.

He married Linda Grant in 1982.

Sean Kelly Net Worth

Sean Kelly is one of the richest Cyclist from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sean Kelly 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He dropped out of school at age 13 to help on the family farm after his father fell ill.

He was named “John” after his father but was referred to as “Sean” to avoid confusion in the house.

Kelly is the second son of Jack (John) and Nellie Kelly, a farming family in Curraghduff in County Waterford. He was born at Belleville Maternity Home in Waterford city on 21 May 1956. He was named John James Kelly after his father and then, to avoid confusion at home, referred to as Sean. Seán is the Irish form of John.

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Who is Sean Kelly Dating?

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Kelly’s first professional race was the Étoile de Bessèges. It started on 7 February 1977 and lasted six days. Kelly came 10th on the first day. The Flandria team was in two parts: the strongest riders, such as the world champion Freddy Maertens, were in the main section, based in Belgium. Kelly rode with the second section, based more in France because Flandria wanted to sell more of its mopeds, scooters and bicycles there. The strongest riders in both camps came together for big races. Kelly was recruited as a domestique for Maertens in the main team for year’s Paris–Nice – shortly afterwards he won his first race, the opening stage of the Tour de Romandie. In 1978, he started in the Tour de France, in which he also won a stage.

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Sean Ranked on the list of most popular Cyclist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Sean Kelly celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.

By now Kelly had a reputation as a sprinter who could not win stage races, although he did finish fourth in the 1980 Vuelta a España. De Gribaldy employed him as unambiguous team leader, someone he believed could win stage races and not just stages. To this end, de Gribaldy encouraged Kelly to lose weight, convincing the latter that he could target the overall win at Paris–Nice: Kelly won the “Race to the Sun” and four of its stages. On the last of those, a time-trial to the col d’Eze, he beat Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle and pushed him out of the lead. Years later Kelly admitted that his countryman Roche’s emergence during his neo-pro season in 1981, during which he had also won Paris-Nice, was one of the factors which motivated him to adjust his focus to becoming more of an all-round rider. However, the spring classics season proved a disappointment, with Kelly’s best result being a 12th place in Paris–Roubaix after suffering multiple punctures. Despite that, that season he went on to win another of objectives set by de Gribaldy: the points classification of the Tour de France, where he took five second places on flat stages before winning a reduced bunch sprint in Pau after climbing the Col d’Aubisque. His points total was nearly three times that of the points classification runner-up, the yellow jersey winner Bernard Hinault. He finished third in the world championship in England – the first worlds medal for an Irish rider since Shay Elliott’s silver in 1962 – and at the end of the year married his girlfriend, Linda Grant, the daughter of a local cycling club official. Carrick-on-Suir named the town square “the Sean Kelly Square” in tribute to his achievements in the 1982 Tour de France and his bronze medal at the championship The following year Kelly again won Paris–Nice and then the Critérium International and the Tour de Suisse as well as the points classification in the Tour de France the second time in a row.

Did Sean Kelly win Tour de France?

Kelly achieved 33 victories in 1984. He was becoming a contender in the grand tours, as seen by finishing fifth in the Tour de France. This may have caused him to lose his grip on the points classification in that year’s Tour.

Where is Sean Kelly now?

After Kelly retired in 1992, he did build a home near Carrick-on-Suir , where he still lives.

Is Sean Kelly married?

Linda Grant

Can Sean Kelly speak French?

In addition, Kelly, like LeMond and others, was comfortable speaking French , the product of starting their professional careers on the European Continent. Kelly, now a commentator on Eurosport’s English-language channel, will still occasionally jump over to the network’s French booth after stages to do commentary.

What happened to Sean from Storage Wars?

Storage Hunters star Sean Kelly struggled with crippling back pain but losing weight gave him new lease of life. ease his conditions. I’ve struggled with my weight all my life. Both my parents loved food and there was never a limit.