Lizzie Armitstead
Elizabeth Mary "Lizzie" Armitstead (born 18 December 1988) is an English professional world champion track and road racing cyclist. She is, as of 27 September 2015, the reigning World, Commonwealth and National road race champion. Armitstead is also the reigning and twice winner of the season-long UCI Women's Road World Cup, winning the overall competiton in 2014 and the final edition in 2015. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Armitstead won the silver medal in the road race.
Prior to her road career Armitstead won a total of five medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2009 and 2010, including a gold medal in team pursuit in 2009 with Joanna Rowsell and Wendy Houvenaghel.
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Early life
Armitstead was born in the market town of Otley in West Yorkshire,[2] where she attended Prince Henry's Grammar School, a state comprehensive school. She took up cycling in 2004 after British Cycling's Olympic Talent Team visited the school.[3][4] She is a graduate of British Cycling's Olympic Podium Programme. Armitstead has been a vegetarian since the age of ten.[5]
Track career
Armitstead won a silver medal in the scratch race at the Junior World Track Championships in 2005, she was under-23 European Scratch Race Champion in 2007 and 2008, and came second in the Points Race in 2007.
Armitstead was a member of the gold medal winning team pursuit squad at the 2009 Track World Championships, her second appearance at a senior world championship event. She also competed in the scratch race, where despite being brought down in the closing stages of the race, jumped back on to claim the silver medal. She completed the championships with a full set of medals, winning bronze in the points race whilst riding with her right wrist numb and strapped up — she was only able to move her forefinger and thumb.
Road career
2009–2011
In 2009, Armitstead joined the Lotto-Belisol cycling team and rode a number of top level road races. She won the under 23 category of the British National Road Race Championships and the silver medal in the senior category after some controversy.[6][7] In 2010 she rode for Cervélo TestTeam.[8] Armitstead decided to stay with the franchise in its new formation as Garmin–Cervélo throughout 2011.[9]
2012
Following the discontinuation of the Garmin Cervélo women's team, Armitstead rode for the AA Drink-Leontien.nl team in 2012.[10] Armitstead built the whole of her campaign around the summer Olympics, where she would go on to win the silver medal in the road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics, behind Marianne Vos, in so becoming the first Briton to win a medal at the 2012 Games.[11]
2013
Having had to move teams in the past two seasons due to teams disbanding, Armitstead signed for the Boels Dolmans Cycling Team for the 2013 season.[12][13] Her 2013 season was affected by a recurring stomach illness which was eventually diagnosed as a symptom of a hiatus hernia.[14] Even with her well documented medical concerns Armitstead emerged victorious at the British National Road Race championships – claiming her second white, red and blue jersey.[15]
2014
In April 2014 it was announced that Armitstead had renewed her contract with Boels Dolmans until the end of 2016.[16] Armitstead enjoyed a career-best year, starting with a win at the Omloop van het Hageland. A week later she also won the first World Cup race of the season, the Ronde van Drenthe, after team mate Ellen van Dijk closed a significant gap for her in the final kilometres of the race.[17] At the third World Cup race, the Tour of Flanders, she finished second behind Ellen van Dijk. Armitstead took part in the inaugural 2014 La Course by Le Tour de France in Paris on 27 July 2014, but crashed with 1 km to the finish.[18] A week later she won the women's road race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[19] Armitstead, overhauled Emma Pooley with 7 km to go to win her first major gold medal.[20] Armitstead won the UCI Women's Road World Cup with a race to spare on the 24th August 2014.[21] An 8th-place finish in the Open de Suede Vargarda was enough to secure the overall title.[22]
2015
For the 2015 season Armitstead stated again her intention to build towards the UCI Road World Championships. Armitstead claimed the first overall win of her career taking the Ladies Tour of Qatar stage race, as well as winning two stages. Armitstead then went on to take victories at the one day World Cup races Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the Philadelphia Cycling Classic, along with the Boels Rental Hills Classic.
In June, Armitstead was forced to pull out of the Aviva Women's Tour after colliding with a group of photographers seconds after winning the first stage of the tour in Suffolk.[23] However, ten days later she had recovered sufficiently to win convincingly the British National Road Race Championships for the third time[24] taking her to the top of the UCI world rankings.[25] In August, she sprinted to victory in the final World Cup race of the season, the GP de Plouay, to retain her World Cup title ahead of her main challenger, Anna van der Breggen.[26]
To cap her best season to date, on 26 September, Armitstead won the UCI World Road Championship gold medal in Richmond, Virginia, USA, beating van der Breggen in a sprint from a small group of nine riders at the finish line, becoming the fourth British woman to win the world road race title after Beryl Burton, Mandy Jones and Nicole Cooke.[27]
Palmarès
Road
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- 2006
- 1st
British National Circuit Race Championships
- 1st WCRA Criterium Championships
- 2007
- 1st
British National Circuit Race Championships
- 2008
- 2009
- 1st
U23 British National Road Race Championships
- 2nd British National Road Race Championships
- 1st Young rider classification Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 3rd Overall Tour de l'Ardèche
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 6
- 2010
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Aude
- 1st
U23 British National Road Race Championships
- 1st Stage 6 La Route de France
- 1st Points classification Tour de l'Ardèche
- 1st Stages 3, 4 & 5
- 2nd British National Road Race Championships
- 2nd
Road Race Commonwealth Games
- 9th Road race UCI Road World Championships
- 2011
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Chongming Island
- 2nd Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
- 1st
British National Road Race Championships
- 1st Points classification, Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Stage 6
- 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2012
- 1st Omloop van het Hageland
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 2nd British National Road Race Championships
- 2nd
Road Race, 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2013
- 1st
British National Road Race Championships
- 2nd Ridderronde Maastricht
- 3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
Combativity award Stage 2 Energiewacht Tour
- 2014
- 1st
Road Race Commonwealth Games
- 1st 20px Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 1st Omloop van het Hageland
- 1st Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
- 1st Otley Grand Prix
- 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 2nd Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen)
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 2nd Emakumeen Saria
- 3rd Drentse 8
- 3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 3rd British National Road Race Championships[28]
- 3rd RideLondon Grand Prix[29]
- 2015
- 1st
UCI Road Race World Championships
- 1st 20px Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 1st
British National Road Race Championships
- 1st
Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 1st Boels Rental Hills Classic
- 1st The Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 1st GP de Plouay
- 1st Stage 1 The Women's Tour
- 2nd Strade Bianche
- 3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2016
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 1st Strade Bianche
- 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 1st Tour of Flanders
- 1st Boels Rental Hills Classic
Track
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- 2005
- 1st
British Junior National Track Championships (Points race)
- 2nd UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships (Scratch race)
- 2nd British Junior National Track Championships (500m TT)
- 3rd British Junior National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 2006
- 2nd British Senior National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 2nd British Junior National Track Championships (Points race)
- 2nd British Junior National Track Championships (Pursuit)
- 3rd British Junior National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 3rd British Junior National Track Championships (500m TT)
- 2007
- 1st
U23 European Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 2nd U23 European Track Championships (Points race)
- 2008
- 1st
U23 European Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 1st
U23 European Track Championships (Team pursuit)
- 1st Points race 2008–2009 Track World Cup (Manchester)
- 1st Scratch race 2008–2009 Track World Cup (Manchester)
- 1st Team pursuit 2008–2009 Track World Cup (Manchester)
- 1st Scratch race 2008–2009 Track World Cup (Melbourne)
- 1st Team pursuit 2008–2009 Track World Cup (Melbourne)
- 2nd European U23 Trach Championships (Points race)
- 2009
- 1st Scratch race 2008–2009 Track World Cup (Copenhagen)
- 1st Team pursuit 2008–2009 Track World Cup (Copenhagen)
- 1st
UCI Track World Championships (Team pursuit)
- 1st 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Ranking (Scratch race)
- 1st 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Ranking (Team Pursuit)
- 1st Team pursuit 2009-2010 Track World Cup (Manchester)
- 1st Points race 2009-2010 Track World Cup (Manchester)
- 2nd UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Scratch race)
- 3rd UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Points race)
- 2010
- 2nd UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Team pursuit)
- 2nd UCI Track World Championships (Omnium)
- 2011
- 1st
British National Track Championships (Points race)
- 1st
British National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 2015
- 1st Points race, Revolution – Manchester (Round 3)
- 1st Points race, Revolution – Glasgow (Round 4)
Classics results timeline
Year | Strade Bianche | Ronde van Drenthe | Gent–Wevelgem | Trofeo Alfredo Binda | Tour of Flanders | La Flèche Wallonne Féminine | GP de Plouay | Open de Suède Vårgårda |
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2007 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2008 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2009 | – | – | – | 22 | 20 | – | ||
2010 | – | – | – | – | 49 | – | ||
2011 | 10 | – | – | 47 | 71 | 14 | ||
2012 | 17 | 1 | – | 34 | – | – | – | |
2013 | 7 | – | DNF | 9 | 12 | 24 | DNF | |
2014 | 1 | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | |
2015 | 2 | 7 | – | 1 | 8 | 21 | 1 | 19 |
2016 | 1 | DNF | 17 | 1 | 1 |
– = Did not start.
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- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
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- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
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- UCI Road World Champions (women)
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