Andrew Pinfold

Andrew has been a consistently strong performer throughout the decade, but he started earning wider attention in 2007 with two podium finishes in stages of the Tour of Missouri. He’s a strong sprinter who has shown solid climbing ability and a knack for getting in successful breaks. He brings significant horsepower and experience to the team.

Date of Birth/Location:
August 14, 1978; Woodbridge, Ontario

Height/ Weight:
6’2”, 173 lbs.

Current Residence:
North Vancouver, British Columbia

Education (include years):
Bachelor of Science, Geography, University of Victoria, 2000
Master of Science, Medical Geography, University of Victoria, 2008

Years Racing: 17
Years as a Pro: 7

Strengths on the bike: Sprinting
Strengths off the bike: Eating

Nickname: Pinner

Family Status: Married to Keltie Dow

Favorite Movies: FUBAR

Currently on my iPod: Neil Diamond

Little known fact about Andrew:
I can spin plates.

Palmares

Career Highlights:
Former Canadian Criterium Champion
Podium Finishes at the Tour of Wellington, Tour of Hokkaido, Vuelta El Salvador, Vuelta Chihuahua, Vuelta Sonora Arizona, Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, Tour de Beauce, Tour de Georgia, Tour de Missouri, and the Canadian National Road Championships.

Wins:

2008
1st Stage 3,Tour de Delta
1st Stages 1, Tour de White Rock
1st Stages 2, Tour de White Rock
1st Giro di Burnaby
1st Tour of Gastown
1st St. Lawrence Market Criterium
1st Stage 5, Mount Hood Classic
1st Bastion Square GP

2007
1st Tour de Delta Road Race
1st Yaletown GP
1st Stage 3a TTT, La Vuelta a El Salvador
1st Washington Stage Omnium Championships, Criterium

2006
1st Overall, Tour de White Rock
1st Stage 6, Tour de Beauce
1st Stage 2, Mount Hood Cycling Classic
1st Tour de White Rock Road Race
1st Stage 3, Willamette Valley Stage Race
1st B.C. Criterium Championships

2005
1st BC Provincial Road Race Championships
1st BC Provincial Criterium Champioships
1st Overall, BC Cup of Cyclocross Winner
1st Stage 2 Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race
1st Stage 3 Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race
1st Stage 4 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic
1st Yaletown GP
1st Best in BC Competition, Tour de Delta
1st BC Cup of Cyclocross #2
1st BC Cup of Cyclocross #3
1st BC Cup of Cyclocross #5
1st BC Cup of Cyclocross #6
1st BC Cup of Cyclocross # 7

2004
1st BC Road Championships
1st Crescent Beach Cyclocross
1st Vancouver Island Cyclocross Championships
1st BC Cyclocross Championships

2003
1st Stage 3, Tour of Wellington, NZL
3rd Stage 6, Tour of Wellington, NZL
1st New York State Road Championships
1st New York State Omnium Championships
1st Tour de White Rock Hill Climb (course record)
1st Eden Valley Road Race
1st Ontario Criterium Championships
1st OBC GP, Ottawa
1st Mardis Lachine, Stage 10.

2002
1st Overall, 3 stage wins, La Bicicletta GP, Ontario
1st Tour de White Rock Hill Climb
1st Tour de Via Italia GP, Ontario
1st Buffalo Criterium
1st Welland Ontario Cup

2001
1st Tour de White Rock RR
1st Ontario Cup

2000
Canadian Elite Criterium Champion
1st Ontario Elite Road Race Championships
1st Welland Rose Festival Criterium
1st Preston Street Italian Festival Criterium

1999
Ontario U23 Road Champion

1996
1st Ontario Cyclocross Championships

Other Major Results:

2008
2nd Prologue, Tour de Delta
2nd Overall, Tour de White Rock
3rd Points Classification, Tour de Georgia
3rd Stage 3, Tour de White Rock
3rd Stage 7, Tour de Georgia
4th Stage 5, Tour de Georgia
4th Stage 1, Mount Hood Cycling Classic
4th Stage 3, San Dimas Stage Race
5th Stage 2, Tour de Georgia
5th Stage 2, Tour of Missouri
6th Stage 5, Tour of Missouri
6th Stage 3, Tour de Georgia
6th Stage 3, Redlands Bicycle Classic
8th Stage 2, Tour of Missouri
9th Stage 2, San Dimas Stage Race
10th Lehigh Valley Classic

2007
2nd Stage 4, Tour of Missouri
2nd Stage 6, Tour of Missouri
2nd Overall, Tour de Delta
2nd Stage 4, La Vuelta a El Salvador
2nd Stage 4, La Vuelta a Cuba
2nd SFU Kermesse
3rd Stage 5, La Vuelta a Cuba
3rd Tour de Delta Criterium
3rd Giro di Burnaby
3rd Tour de White Rock Hillclimb
4th Stage 8, La Vuelta a Cuba
4th Points Competition, Tour of Missouri
5th Stage 13, La Vuelta a Cuba
5th U.S. Cycling Open
6th Gastown GP
7th Stage 2, La Vuelta a Cuba
15th Commerce Bank Classic

2006
2nd Stage 4, Vuelta Sonora-Arizona
2nd Stage 5, Vuelta Chihuahua,
2nd Tour de White Rock Criterium
2nd Stage 5, La Vuelta a El Salvador
2nd Stage 1, Tour of Utah
3rd Stage 5, Mount Hood Cycling Classic
3rd Canadian National Criterium Championships
4th Stage 5, Tour de Beauce
4th Stage 6, Vuelta Sonora-Arizona
4th Stage 2, Tour of Utah
4th Gastown GP
4th Tour de Delta

2005
2nd Canadian National Criterium Championships
2nd Overall Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race
2nd Stage 1, Tour de White Rock
2nd BC Cup of Cyclocross #8
3rd Overall, KoM Competition, Mt. Hood Cycling Classic
3rd Bastion Square GP
4th Stage 3, Tour de Delta
5th Overall, Tour de White Rock
6th Overall, Tour de Delta
6th Stage 2, Tour de White Rock
7th Health Net Twilight Criterium
8th Aurora Cyclocross
10th McLane Pacific Road Race
13th Crank Brothers GP of Cyclocross #1
29th Overall, Tour de Beauce Bell

2004
2nd Canadian National Criterium Championships
2nd Tour de White Rock Criterium
2nd Stage 2, Enumclaw Stage Race
2nd BC Criterium Championships
3rd Tour de Tunnel Cyclo-Cross Race
3rd Tour de White Rock Hill Climb
3rd Yaletown Grand Prix
3rd Bastion Square Cycling Festival
3rd Stage 6, Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce
4th Stage 3, Tour of the Gila
4th Hatzic Valley BC Cup
6th Tour de Delta Criterium
6th Stage 1, Cascade Classic
7th Starcrossed Grand Prix Cyclo-Cross Race

2003
2nd Overall, BC Superweek
2nd New York Sate Criterium Championships
5th Canadian Cyclo-Cross Championships
7th Stage 5b, Tour de Beauce,
8th Stage 3, Tour de Beauce,
8th Stage 7, Tour de Beauce,
13th Housatonic Classic Road Race
26th Overall, Tour de Beauce

2002
2nd Stage 1, Tour de Hokkaido, Japan
4th Overall, BC Superweek
5th Overall, Tour of Bermuda
5th Stage 5b, Tour de Beauce
5th Canadian National Criterium Championships
5th Syracuse Criterium
5th Tour de White Rock RR
7th Housatonic Valley Classic (1st amateur)
7th Stage 7, Tour de Hokkaido, Japan

2001
3rd Overall BC Superweek
3rd Canada Criterium Championship
3rd Stage 5b, Tour de Beauce
2nd Ontario RR Championships
3rd Ontario TT Championships

2000
2nd U23 Canadian RR Championships
5th U23 Canadian Time Trial Championships
6th Burlington-Burlington Road Race Iowa
7th Stage 5a TT, Tour de Hokkaido Stage, Japan
8th Stage 5b, Tour de Hokkaido, Japan

1997
2nd Canada Summer Games Road Race
2nd Espoir Canadian Cyclocross Championships
3rd Elite Canadian Cyclocross Championships

1995
5th Canadian, Junior World Road Trials
2nd Canadian, Junior National Cyclocross Championships

In his own words

What are your goals or expectations for the 2009 season?
I would like to be an integral part of the success achieved by Team OUCH, whether by posting victories myself, or by helping teammates achieve wins. In terms of expectations, I expect this team to pick up where Health Net left off and be a force to be reckoned with at every race.

How did you spend this past off-season? What did your off-season  training program look like?
Jeremy Storie is my coach and he had me doing lots of specific wattage workouts on the bike, some xc skiing when the weather got ugly, and lots of track riding at the Burnaby Velodrome (until the roof caved in).

You’ve been racing for, essentially, more than half your life. What still fuels your passion to race?
It’s pretty simple: I love this sport, the racing, the travel, the camaraderie, and winning. The day that I lose the passion I have for racing and stop enjoying it, is the day I call it a career.

Do you think having a cyclocross background will endear you to team captain Tim Johnson?
Probably not. He is a way better ‘crosser than I was, am, and ever will be.  Although I don’t think he beat me by much at 1997 World Champs. I think I was 2nd last and Tim was a couple places ahead.

Did getting a degree in Geography make you the go-to guy for reading course maps and profiles?
Only if we’re trying to read an earthquake hazard or a disease prevalence map.  In terms of profiles, my former teammates will tell you I’m pretty useless at that.  Once at the Tour of Utah thought a 15-mile Hors Cat. climb would be easy highway grade based on the profile. It wasn’t.

Who were/are your cycling mentors and/or influences?
I have plenty of people who have been big influences for me. In particular though, I would say my father and John Harris have been the biggest influences on my career. My father has supported and encouraged me my entire career, while John mentored me when I first began road racing.

What was your first bike? When/how did you get it?
It was a yellow cruiser bike I got when I was 7 or 8. I crashed on it and left it on the street while I went to get bandaged up. Unfortunately, some guys from a local biker gang saw it on the street and decide it would be fun to run it over.

What was your first win?
A cyclocross race in Toronto put on by Mike Barry Sr., in 1992.

What would you consider your finest moment on the bike?
Several moments come to mind but a couple standouts include winning the final stage of the Tour de Beauce in 2007, and helping Svein Tuft win the 2007 U.S. Open.

What was your worst or most embarrassing moment on the bike?
Any time you crash and have your arse hanging out your shorts it’s pretty embarrassing.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen on a bike ride?
Having an irate Kiwi driver swerve and try to run me off the road only to run himself into the ditch, hit a large boulder, total his truck and blame me for it.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve done on a bike ride?
Go pick up a truck from the Port Renfrew First Nations reserve.

What’s the one thing you’ve done on a ride (training or race) that you will absolutely never do again?
Go on an “easy” ride with Floyd Landis without lights.

When you’re not on your bike, what do you like to do?
Spend time with my wife.

If you weren’t a professional cyclist, what would you be doing?
I’d probably be sitting behind a desk.