Teams Represented By Most Nations/Countries?

[steve roberts 9,242]

During one of my quieter moments I began thinking which team over the years has been represented by the most Nations/Countries? Oxford must be up there with them? Using one example from each Nation/Country I've come up with the following:

England - Gordon Kennett

Scotland - Ken McKinlay

Wales - Bryan Woodward

Australia - Garry Middleton

New Zealand - Rick Timmo

Zimbabwe - David Steen

Sweden - Hasse Holmqvist

Norway - Dag Lovaas

Denmark - Hans Nielsen

Finland - Kaj Laukhanen

Slovenia - Jernej Kolenko

Poland - Seb Ulamek

Germany - Klaus Lausch

Italy - Armando Castagna

France - Phillipe Berge

Hungary - "Mark Frost"

Russia - Roman Povazhny

I make that seventeen?

PS Eighteen if you count Yorkshire (John Dews) knowing how pedantic some Yorkshire folk are!!

 

[847084 99]

I believe Wolves have 17 also

Ermolenko,  PK, Olsen, Skornicki, Woffinden, McMillan, Airey, Stancl, Francis (Wales), Peterson, Stangeland, Povazhny, Pijper, Riss, Marzotto, McWilliams (South Africa), Aarnio

 

Unless of course someone knows better!

[HenryW 1,178]

If we are counting the UK nations separately, I think I have 21 for Edinburgh (22 if I cheat a little bit!)
 

Argentina	Fernando Garcia
Australia	Sam Masters
Austria	Alfred Sitzwohl
Czech Republic	Jiri Stancl Jnr
Denmark	Frede Schott
England	Les Collins
Estonia	Rene Aas
Finland	Kalle Katijisto
Germany	Kevin Wolbert
Hungary	Jozsef Tabaka
Italy	Stefano Alfonso
Netherlands	Theo Pijper
New Zealand	Wayne Briggs
Norway	Reidar Eide
Poland	Dariusz Fliegert
Scotland	William Lawson
South Africa	Byron Bekker
Sweden	Tomas Jonasson
USA	Mike Faria
Wales	Glyn Taylor
Zambia	James Hayhow
Zimbabwe	Dave Steen

 

EDIT 1 - Oops...Hit submit a bit quick there.

The cheat one is Glyn Taylor as he really had Aussie nationality, but was born in Wales, as far as I know.

Riders on the list were just randomly selected when multiple from the same nation had ridden. No suggestion that these were the best from each nation 

I may have forgotten someone or got a Nationality wrong 

EDIT 2 - I forgot Rene Aas.

Edited December 27, 2021 by HenryW

[frigbo 518]

7 hours ago, steve roberts said:

During one of my quieter moments I began thinking which team over the years has been represented by the most Nations/Countries? Oxford must be up there with them? Using one example from each Nation/Country I've come up with the following:

England - Gordon Kennett

Scotland - Ken McKinlay

Wales - Bryan Woodward

Australia - Garry Middleton

New Zealand - Rick Timmo

Zimbabwe - David Steen

Sweden - Hasse Holmqvist

Norway - Dag Lovaas

Denmark - Hans Nielsen

Finland - Kaj Laukhanen

Slovenia - Jernej Kolenko

Poland - Seb Ulamek

Germany - Klaus Lausch

Italy - Armando Castagna

France - Phillipe Berge

Hungary - "Mark Frost"

Russia - Roman Povazhny

I make that seventeen?

PS Eighteen if you count Yorkshire (John Dews) knowing how pedantic some Yorkshire folk are!!

 

Holland - Henk Steman

[iris123 20,939]

1 hour ago, frigbo said:

Holland - Henk Steman

Didn't a Latvian rider also ride for Oxford ? 

[steve roberts 9,242]

1 hour ago, frigbo said:

Holland - Henk Steman

I also missed out the USA - Hancock

[steve roberts 9,242]

35 minutes ago, iris123 said:

Didn't a Latvian rider also ride for Oxford ? 

Trouble was Nigel Wagstaff was signing riders "left, right & centre" after I re-located and I lost count of the number of riders and nationalities!

[iris123 20,939]

Just now, steve roberts said:

Trouble was Nigel Wagstaff was signing riders "left, right & centre" after I re-located and I lost count of the number of riders and nationalities!

Thought so. Just wasn't sure of the spelling 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjasts_Puodžuks

[chunky 6,087]

21 hours ago, steve roberts said:

During one of my quieter moments I began thinking which team over the years has been represented by the most Nations/Countries? Oxford must be up there with them? Using one example from each Nation/Country I've come up with the following:

England - Gordon Kennett

Scotland - Ken McKinlay

Wales - Bryan Woodward

Australia - Garry Middleton

New Zealand - Rick Timmo

Zimbabwe - David Steen

Sweden - Hasse Holmqvist

Norway - Dag Lovaas

Denmark - Hans Nielsen

Finland - Kaj Laukhanen

Slovenia - Jernej Kolenko

Poland - Seb Ulamek

Germany - Klaus Lausch

Italy - Armando Castagna

France - Phillipe Berge

Hungary - "Mark Frost"

Russia - Roman Povazhny

I make that seventeen?

PS Eighteen if you count Yorkshire (John Dews) knowing how pedantic some Yorkshire folk are!!

 

Sounds to me like you mind's going, Steve!

Wot? No Drymls? 

[steve roberts 9,242]

48 minutes ago, chunky said:

Sounds to me like you mind's going, Steve!

Wot? No Drymls? 

Blimey!

I forgot the Czechs as well!

[alanf2 18]

Denzil Kent from South Africa rode for Oxford back in the day.

[steve roberts 9,242]

52 minutes ago, alanf2 said:

Denzil Kent from South Africa rode for Oxford back in the day.

I maybe wrong but I think that Denzil was from Zimbabwe?

[chunky 6,087]

26 minutes ago, steve roberts said:

I maybe wrong but I think that Denzil was from Zimbabwe?

He was Zimbabwean...

[iris123 20,939]

40 minutes ago, steve roberts said:

I maybe wrong but I think that Denzil was from Zimbabwe?

Dennis Newton rode for Oxford, and was South African. But unfortunately, only after he left Oxford 

[spin king 1,918]

Sheffield have had

(1) Argentina; Emiliano Sanchez

(2)  Australia; Josh Grajczonek

(3) Canada; Kyle Legault

(4) Scotland; Bert Harkins.

(5) England; Simon Stead

(6) Denmark; Lasse Bjerre

(7) Sweden; Bengt Larson

(8) USA;  Shawn Moran

(9) Czech; Josef Franc

(10) Hungary; Zoltan Adjorn

(11) Germany; Robbie Kessler

(12) Finland; Rauli Makinen

(13) Norway; Lars Gunnestad

(14) Estonia; Rene Aas

(15) Holland; Henny Kroeze

(16) France; David Bellego

(17) New Zealand; Wayne Brown

(18) Italy; Paco Castangna

And when this season gets underway we can Poland to the list.