Lizzie Deignan: Cycling Champion Profile
Lizzie Deignan: Cycling Champion Profile
Deignan is also the 2014 Commonwealth Games road race champion and a
twice winner of the season-long UCI Women's Road World Cup, winning the
overall competition in 2014 and the final edition in 2015. At the 2012
Summer Olympics, Deignan won the silver medal in the road race. She has
won the British National Road Race Championships four times, in 2011,
2013, 2015 and 2017.
2015
For the 2015 season, Deignan stated again her intention to build towards the UCI Road
World Championships. She claimed the first overall win of her career taking the Ladies Deignan at the 2014 Thüringen
Tour of Qatar stage race, as well as winning two stages. Deignan then went on to take Rundfahrt der Frauen, where she
victories at the one day World Cup races Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio and went on to claim the Points and
Mountains classifications
Philadelphia Cycling Classic, along with the Holland Hills Classic.
In June, Deignan was forced to pull out of The Women's Tour after colliding with a group
of photographers seconds after winning the first stage of the tour in Suffolk.[27] However, ten days later she had recovered
sufficiently to win convincingly the British National Road Race Championships for the third time[28] taking her to the top of the
UCI world rankings.[29] 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.[30]
To cap her best season to date, on 26 September, Deignan won the World Championships road race 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.[31]
2016
Deignan's stated aim for the 2016 season was the road race at the Olympic Games,[32] and she started the season as she had
finished off the previous one, securing a number of one day race wins, as well as a General classification victory, breaking any
curse of the rainbow jersey. Deignan took four victories in the inaugural UCI Women's World Tour; Strade Bianche,[33][34]
Trofeo Alfredo Binda,[35][36] Tour of Flanders[37] and the overall title at The Women's Tour.[38][39] Deignan also took victories
in the Holland Hills Classic[40][41] and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.[42] At the Games, she finished just outside the medals in fifth
place.[9]
In a 5 August 2016 interview, she said she believes that people will doubt her status as a clean sportsperson forever.[45] World
squash champion James Willstrop wrote in defence of Deignan, arguing that the complexity of testing procedures can easily lead
to missed tests and noting that she had 16 clean tests in 2016.[46]
2017
Deignan endured a difficult start to her 2017 season: after finishing third at Strade Bianche, she fell ill, which hampered her
training. However, her form picked up for the Ardennes classics, finishing second to team-mate van der Breggen in the Amstel
Gold Race,[47] La Flèche Wallonne Féminine[48] and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.[49] She subsequently took her first win of the
season on home ground at the Tour de Yorkshire in April, crossing the line solo almost a minute ahead of her nearest rivals.[50]
She took another solo win at the British National Championships on the Isle of Man in June, attacking from a small group with
two laps of the 6.7-kilometre (4.2-mile) finishing circuit remaining alongside Katie Archibald and Hannah Barnes: the trio
caught and passed race leader Elinor Barker with 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) to go, with Deignan breaking away immediately
afterwards to take her fourth senior national road race title.[51]
The following month she finished second at La Course by Le Tour de France, finishing behind winner Annemiek van Vleuten
on the Col d'Izoard: she stated that she was "surprised" by her performance, having never enjoyed success on a mountaintop
finish before.[52] In August she took her first World Tour win of the season at the GP de Plouay – Bretagne, breaking away from
rivals alongside Pauline Ferrand-Prévot on the final climb, before outsprinting Ferrand-Prévot to cross the finish line first. She
became the third woman to win the race twice, alongside Vos and Pooley.[53] However, the remainder of her season was
disrupted shortly afterwards after being struck with appendicitis whilst competing in the Holland Ladies Tour.[54]
2021
Deignan was chosen to be part of the UK's cycling squad at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she contested the road
race with Anna Shackley as a teammate.[55] The race finished with an unexpected winner in Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria, with
Deignan finding the conditions humid and difficult. She finished 11th in the race.[56]
In early October she went on to win the Paris–Roubaix Femmes with a solo breakaway of more than 80 kilometres (50
miles),[57] a victory described by commentators as one of the greatest Roubaix rides of all time.[58] Deignan therefore became
the first woman to win a 'triple crown' of all women's Monument classics, having won the 2016 Tour of Flanders for Women,
and the 2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes.
2022
In February, Deignan announced that she would sit out the 2022 season, as she was pregnant with her second child.[59] She also
announced she had signed a contract extension with Trek–Segafredo to return to racing in 2023.[59]
2024
In June, Deignan won the Mountains classification in the Tour of Britain Women having held the position from stage one[60] to
the end of the four-day race.[61]
She was selected to represent Great Britain at the Paris Olympics,[62] finishing 12th in what was her fourth Games
appearance.[63]
On 15 November, Deignan announced she would retire at the end of the 2025 season.[64][65]
Personal life
She married fellow professional road racing cyclist Philip Deignan in Otley on 17 September 2016.[66] The couple have two
children: a daughter, born in September 2018,[67] and a son, born in September 2022.[68]
She splits her time between Otley and Monaco.[9] Deignan has been a pescetarian for ethical reasons since the age of ten.[8][69]
Career achievements
Major results
Road
Source:[70]
Classic 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Omloop
Het — — — 10 36 3 3 1 — — — — 111 — — 44
Nieuwsblad
Strade
Race did not exist 2 1 3 — — 37 — — — 27
Bianche
Ronde van
— — 10 17 7 1 7 DNF — — — — — — —
Drenthe
Trofeo NH
Alfredo — — — — DNF 2 1 1 39 — — 12 — — DNF
Binda
Gent–
Race did not exist 1 — — — 17 — — — 8 17 — — —
Wevelgem
Tour of
— — — 34 9 2 8 1 17 — — DNF 18 — — DNF
Flanders
Paris–
Race did not exist 1 — — —
Roubaix
NH
Amstel
Not held 2 — 19 — — — —
Gold Race
La Flèche
22 — 47 — 12 2 21 28 2 — 23 4 — — 88 —
Wallonne
Liège–
Bastogne– Race did not exist 2 — 7 1 — — 63 —
Liège
GP de
20 49 71 — 24 8 1 66 1 — — 1 7 — —
Plouay
Open de
Suède — — 14 — DNF 8 19 62 35 — 46 Not held — —
Vårgårda
Legend
— Did not compete
NH Not held
Track
2005
National Junior Championships
1st Points race
2nd 500m time trial
3rd Scratch
2007
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Scratch
2nd Points race
2008
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Scratch
1st Team pursuit
2nd Points race
2009
UCI World Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Scratch
3rd Points race
2010
UCI World Championships
2nd Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
2011
National Championships
1st Points race
1st Scratch
2015
Revolution Series
1st Points race, Manchester
1st Points race, Glasgow
3rd Scratch, Glasgow
Awards and honours
In 2015, Deignan was nominated for the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, following her world championship
victory; she finished tenth, with approximately 22,000 of the 1.009 million votes cast.[71]
In December 2022, Deignan was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year
Honours for services to cycling.[72][73]
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Lizzie Deignan (https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Lizzie_Deignan) at British Cycling (archive (h
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Elizabeth Deignan (https://www.uci.org/rider-details/45988) at UCI
Elizabeth Deignan (https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/140888) at ProCyclingStats
Elizabeth Deignan (https://www.teamgb.com/athletes/7k0ibiB4ScKFGTBUELITPX) at Team GB
Elizabeth Deignan (https://olympics.com/en/athletes/elizabeth-armitstead) at Olympics.com
Elizabeth Deignan (https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/elizabeth-deignan_1912518) at the Paris 2024
Summer Olympics
Lizzie Armitstead-Deignan (https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/126952) at Olympedia
Lizzie Armitstead at MTC (management company) (https://web.archive.org/web/20090813051523/http://www.mtc
-uk.com/talent/lizzie-armitstead) at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 August 2009)
Lizzie Armitstead (https://web.archive.org/web/2022/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/cycling_road/102820
8/l_armitstead.html) at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
Elizabeth Armitstead (https://web.archive.org/web/20220101/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/57681) at the
Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)