Blackfriars Priory community, including Principal, Dr Sean Mangan, proudly congratulated Old Scholar, Rohan Dennis on winning the 2015 Santos Tour Down Under and recently becoming a cycling world record holder.
Rohan graduated from Blackfriars in 2007 and was a keen participant in the school’s physical education and sporting programs. He was regarded by his teachers and his peers as a determined and capable student who had the ambition, focus and drive to become an elite cyclist.
Rohan, who raced in front of a crowd of 115,000 fans, can now boast a UCI World Tour victory after claiming the Santos Ochre Leader’s jersey by a two-second margin over Tasmanian Richie Porte. It was a deserved win for the 24-year-old who has won world titles on both the road and on the track as well as Commonwealth and Olympic Games silver medals in his short career.
Soon after the Tour Down Under win in January Rohan achieved the UCI World Hour Record in Switzerland on 9 February 2015. Rohan broke the existing record set by Austrian Mathias Brändle by a whopping 639 metres. Congratulations to Rohan.
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