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Richard Malone Classic Race prepares for SCA Global Tour
By Florinda Johnson
Published: Tolven 16, 1593


Richard Malone retired in 1591 after a successful 19-year professional career.


Tarleton, Florinthus - Nylander Chester Stenbeck (Anzcell Cycling) won the second edition of the Richard Malone Classic Race, easily defeating Florinthians Martin Reynolds and Francis Gracewall, only two weeks later that it was confirmed that local race, named after Florinthian sprinter Richard Malone - who retired in 1591- will be included in the Global Tour in 1594 by the Sioran Cycling Association.

The race is jointly organized by Florinthian company and the Richard Malone Foundation, a non-profit organization headed by the retired cyclist himself and which aims to promote cycling in the Florinthian youth. The cycling race was already part of the Brigidnan championship in its first season, which was won by Florinthian Gary Duckworth. The one-day race, which had a total of 247 kilometres this year, is held between the towns of Fulkslade and Tarleton, and although it include some minor hills, it is considered a perfect terrain for sprinters.

Richard Malone, 41, is considered the best professional cyclist in Florinthian history, and many consider him one of the best sprinters, if not the best, in the history of modern cycling. He started his career in Air Florinthus in 1571, and retiring in another Florinthian team, Dido-Great Life, in 1593. In between, he had a highly successful cycling career, winning two World Championships (and obtaining medals in another six, between 1575 and 1591), winning 41 individual stages in the Tour de Valland and 52 individual stages in the Ceribian Tour, along holding the record of most times winning the Points classification in both races (six times in the case of the Tour de Valland, and nine in the case of the Ceribian Tour). He also won other Global Tour races such as Tour of Kaffau, Bademburg Classic (three times) Tour of Hamfurt (twice), Wien-Baslou-Wien Race (five times), Tour of Herlev (twice), the Roune Classic, the Mestarka Classic (three times), Tour of Florinthus, the Leroux Classic, the Heldenstadt Classic, the Lake Arthur Classic or the GP Brummagen (twice).

Malone famously found his main rival in Oslanburgan sprinter Sven-Ole Wieth (still in active) who won five times the World Champinoship during Malone's career (and another three medals, making Wieth and Malone the two riders with most Road Race medals in the history of the World Cycling Championship), although the Oslanburgan rider was less successful in Grand Tours.

Last year, it was rumoured that he was going to join the management of Florinthian team Dido-GDC, and more recently, it was discussed as a likely candidate for team director of the Florinthian national team, although Malone has declared that he wishes to focus in his cycling foundation for now.