Rayner Fund to back 27 riders in 2016

The British-based Dave Rayner Fund has announced that it will be backing 27 riders this season, supporting each of them in chasing their dream of a professional career in the sport by racing abroad. Among those who will receive backing are Tao Geoghegan-Hart, who rode as a stagiaire with Team Sky towards the end of last season, and Andy Leigh, who won the Lewis "Spadger" Barry Award of the fund's rider of the year in 2015 and will be racing in the colours of the Colna Superano Ham Belgian continental team.

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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