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Kirk O'Bee

Key Stats

Team: Bissell
Nationality: American
Born: April 9, 1977
Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Residence: North Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
Height: 5-foot-9
Weight: 154 pounds
Strengths: One day racing
Turned Pro: 2000

Palmares

Career Highlights:

1st overall, Tour of Taiwan 2006
U.S. criterium champion 2001, 2007
2nd, CSC Invitational 2005

2007
USPro Criterium Champion
1st Stage 2, Nature Valley Grand Prix
1st Stage 4, Nature Valley Grand Prix
1st Stage 6, Cascade Classic
1st Tour de Gastown
1st Giro di Burnaby

2006
1st overall, Tour of Taiwan (plus stage 5)
2nd overall, Tour de Delta 

3rd overall, Tour de Gastown

10th overall, Herald Sun Tour



2005
1st overall, Tour de Delta

1st, stage 4 and 6, Cascade Classic 

1st, stage 2, Tour de Delta

1st, Tour de White Rock Road Race

1st overall, Canada Cup Road Race Series

2nd, CSC Invitational
5th, U.S. road championship


2004
3rd, Rund um Koln

3rd, GP de Rennes

5th, T-Mobile Invitational

2002
1st, GP Pino Cerami

1st, GP de Rennes 



2001
1st, U.S. criterium championship

1st, sprint competition, Saturn Classic



1999
1st, Hasselt-Spa-Hasselt


Biography

O’Bee is a one-day specialist who can get over the climbs and still have enough left in the tank to finish it off with a sprint.