{"id":565624,"date":"2026-05-04T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565624\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:42:08","slug":"lincoln-grand-prix-cycle-race-to-celebrate-70th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565624\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Grand Prix cycle race to celebrate 70th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix was first staged in the summer of 1956 and the trophy is named in memory of rider Roy Hart, who died during the 1959 edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been held every year except in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A women&#8217;s race was introduced in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previous stars to compete at the event include Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins, record-breaking sprinter Mark Cavendish and Dame Sarah Storey, who is Britain&#8217;s most successful Paralympian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ed Hughes, of the University of Lincoln, which has signed a three-year sponsorship deal, said the race was &#8220;puts Lincoln on the map&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the deal, university students will be given opportunities to gain experience in aspects of the race such as physiotherapy, event management and media relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix was first staged in the summer of 1956 and the trophy is named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-565624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}