Chris Froome is one of the most popular and richest Cyclist who was born on May 20, 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya. Cyclist Cyclist Lance Armstrong was also a Tour de France winner, but Armstrong’s multiple titles were revoked due to his performance-enhancing drug use. was also a Tour de France winner, but Armstrong’s multiple titles were revoked due to his performance-enhancing drug use.
Christopher Clive Froome, OBE (born 20 May 1985) is a British road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Ineos. He has won several stage races, including four editions of the Tour de France (in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017), the Giro d’Italia in 2018 and the Vuelta a España twice (2011 and 2017). Froome has also won two Olympic bronze medals in road time trials, in 2012 and 2016, and also took bronze in the 2017 World Championships.
After finishing primary school at the Banda School in Nairobi, Froome moved to South Africa as a 14-year-old to attend St. Andrew’s School, a publicly funded school in Bloemfontein and St John’s College, a boarding independent school in Johannesburg. Whilst in South Africa he was the school’s cycling captain and kept in contact with Kinjah. He then studied economics for two years at the University of Johannesburg. In South Africa Froome started to participate in road cycling. On one of his school holidays, his home club gifted him with a second-hand yellow jersey. Being unaware of the Tour de France, he failed to see the significance. It was not until he was 22 that he turned professional. Froome started road racing in South Africa, specialising as a climber. Froome competed for Kenya in the road time trial and the road race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he finished 17th and 25th respectively, catching the attention of future Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford: “The performance he did, on the equipment he was on, that takes some doing… We always thought he was a bit of a diamond in the rough, who had a huge potential.” While representing Kenya at the 2006 Road World Championships in the under-23 category in Salzburg, Austria, Froome crashed into an official just after the start of the time trial, causing both men to fall; although neither was injured, he finished in 36th place. Froome’s appearance at the Worlds came about after he impersonated Kenyan cycling federation president Julius Mwangi by using Mwangi’s email account to enter himself into the Championships, in order to add some European racing experience to his CV and boost his chances of obtaining a contract with a professional team.
He was committed with Michelle Cound in 2013 and they were married in 2014.
His Tour de France win to his mother, Jane, who had been diagnosed with cancer and passed away five years before.
Froome was born on 20 May 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, the youngest of three boys to mother Jane and English father Clive, a former field hockey player who represented England at under-19 level. His mother’s parents had emigrated from Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England to Kenya to run a crop farm. Whilst living abroad his parents maintained British customs with Sunday roast dinners and Beatles songs which contributed to his desire to represent Great Britain in cycling. In Kenya he would sell avocados and discarded bike parts. Froome’s two older brothers, Jonathan and Jeremy, went to Rugby School in Warwickshire, England. When Froome was 13, his mother took him to his first organised bike race, a charity race that he won despite being knocked from his bike by his mother. There he met professional cyclist David Kinjah, who became Froome’s mentor and training partner. Initially Kinjah misjudged Froome’s attitude, fearing he lacked the “work ethic to keep pace with more experienced riders of the group” His mother was upset with his cycling, often driving out ahead, attempting to drive him back home.
