Who is Marțian Cioană

Gabriela Moldovan & Anton Kovacs

If we talk about Romania and high performance cycling you will probably discover some 3 names, one of them being Martian Cioana.

If we talk about cycling superanduranta, apart from a few episodic presence will remain only Martian Cioana.

You have not heard of him because Martian is not the kind of sport which is written in journals Gossip that participating in social events, possibly with various girls injected with silicone, he is a modest man who Saturdays climb on the bike and  do several hundred kilometers. Not on a Saturday but almost every Saturday.

And he do that so long that the British learned that there is a bicyclist, who came from Romania and who went through every city in England without any exception.

Therefore, even if he is not very known by Romanian, Martian is well known, we can even say he is a personality in the world of cyclists and specially in the UK.

In rest is a normal person, like all of us, is from Timisoara, he has parents who live somewhere very close to us, in Romania, he has a wife, Dorina, he has cats, he works like most of us to earn the bread to put on the table, he is loved by colleagues with whom they are currently working.

And last but not least is our friend.

You can learn more about Martian an interview which was taken a few months ago:

Dorina, which probably will cry with emotion throughout the race.

With his colleagues at Rosewood London

With David Hasselhoff ( yes, the one from Knight Rider and Baywatch)

Martian at work.
So are rewarded good guys who give up the car and travel by bike

With Mike Hall, Transcontinental Race organizer

Martian’s assistant calculates various parameters

Marțian’s 2014