Bradley Wiggins

Bradley Wiggins

Grand Tours

Tour de France

General Classification (2012)

2 stages, ITT (2012)

Giro d'Italia

1 stage, ITT (2010)

Stage Races

Critérium du Dauphiné (2011, 2012)

Paris–Nice (2012)

Tour de Romandie (2012)

Herald Sun Tour (2009)

Single-Day Races and Classics

National Road Race Championship

(2011)

National Time Trial Championship

(2009, 2010)

Olympic Time Trial Champion (2012)

Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for the UCI ProTeam Team Sky. Wiggins began his career on the track, but has made the transition to road cycling and is one of the few cyclists to gain success in both forms of professional cycling. He won the 2012 Tour de France, becoming the first British winner in its history.

Wiggins is the only cyclist to have won the Tour de France and an Olympic gold medal in the same year and the only person to have won a Grand Tour and a gold medal in Olympic track cycling. Wiggins has won seven Olympic medals, the most won by any British Olympian (a total equalled by Chris Hoy); four of them are gold, the third most gold medals won by a British Olympian, behind Hoy (six) and Steve Redgrave (five).

Wiggins's career began in track cycling, specialising in the pursuit and the madison, before he gradually moved towards road racing. He has won six cycling World Championships, his first in 2003 and his most recent in 2008. He won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, a gold, a silver and a bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics, two golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

After the 2008 Olympics, Wiggins took a break from the track to focus on the road. Initially viewed as a time trial specialist and as a rouleur, Wiggins showed his ability in stage races when he came 4th in the 2009 Tour de France (later promoted to 3rd after Lance Armstrong's results were voided in October 2012). His first victory in a major stage race came in the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné, and he also finished third in the 2011 Vuelta a España and second in the time trial at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships. In 2012 Wiggins won the 2012 Paris–Nice, the 2012 Tour de Romandie, the 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné, the 2012 Tour de France and the time trial at the Olympics, receiving the Vélo d'Or award for best rider of the year.