Ryan Cox

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Ryan Cox

Personal information
Date of birth	April 9, 1979(1979-04-09)
Date of death	August 1, 2007 (aged 28)
Country	South Africa
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	63 kg (140 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climbing specialist
Professional team(s)
2000 2001–2002 2003–2007	Amore e Vita Team Cologne Barloworld
Infobox last updated on:
August 1, 2007

Ryan Cox (9 April 1979 – 1 August 2007) was a South African professional road racing cyclist. He had been cycling since 1987 but turned professional in 2000. He first joined Amore e Vita but changed, the following year to Team Cologne which was based in Germany. He had been a member of Team Barloworld since 2003. Cox died at Kempton Park Hospital when the main artery in his left leg burst, three weeks after a vascular lesion operation in France for a knotted artery.^[1]

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• SA cyclist Ryan Cox dies
• Profile on Ryan Cox's Official Site
• Thank you Ryan, we will never forget you
• SA cyclist Cox loses fight for his life