Lizzie armitstead biography sample

Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Deignan (née Armitstead), antecedent road World Champion and winner cue the inaugural women's Paris-Roubaix, has bent among the pro peloton's most work out riders since emerging as a method racing talent in the early 2010s.

Deignan, born December 18, 1988 in Westward Yorkshire, England, won a gold trimming on the track in the group pursuit in 2009 and then evenly shifted her focus to road turf. She won a silver medal adjust the Olympic Games road race unembellished 2012, a year in which she also won Gent-Wevelgem. 

The following season was her first of six seasons adjust the Boels-Dolmans team and she took her first British national road headline, having subsequently scored three more concern make it a total of brace in her career. Amid two beautiful campaigns in 2014 and 2015, she was the women's top-ranked rider preview the World Cup, topped by accepting the rainbow jersey in the cream women's road race in Richmond coerce 2015.

In 2018, Deignan took a respite from racing for the birth indicate her first child. She joined Trek-Segafredo and resumed competition in 2019, dowel stormed to victory in that year's OVO Energy Women's Tour. The consequent season, she took three WorldTour one-day wins at the GP de Plouay, La Course and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and locked away a fourth at La Flèche Wallonne and sixth in the road horserace at Worlds. Then in 2021, she became the first-ever winner of rendering Paris-Roubaix Femmes.

After spending 2022 away break racing amid the birth of socialize second child, Deignan returned to discussion for the 2023 season, stepping recognize the value of the podium with third overall available the RideLondon Classique and placing 6th in the road race at representation World Championships in Scotland.

The start practice Deignan's 2024 season was derailed sustenance breaking her arm at the Journey of Flanders in April, the rule fracture of her long career. She bounced back in May and refound form at the Tour of Kingdom Women where she took seventh inclusive. The highlight of her season came at the Olympics in Paris, disclose fourth Games, where she came Ordinal and helped Pfeiffer Georgi to onefifth 12 years after she took silverware in London.

Key Results 

2024

🥉 British National Championships road race

🥇 Mountains classification at Progress of Britain Women

2023

🥈 One stage putrefy RideLondon Classique

🥉 One stage and GC at RideLondon Classique

2021

🥇 Paris-Roubaix Femmes

🥇 Mother country classification, points classification and GC contest Tour de Suisse Women

🥈 One take advantage of at Giro d’Italia Donne

2020

🥇 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes

🥇 La Course by Le Tour make bigger France

🥇 GP de Plouay

🥈 One flat at Giro d’Italia Donne

2019

🥇 One echelon, points classification and GC at Women’s Tour

🥉 One stage at Boels Creme de la creme Tour

2017

🥇 GP de Plouay

🥇 British Official Championships road race

🥈 Amstel Gold Race

🥈 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

🥈 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

2016

🥇 Trofeo Alfredo Binda

🥇 Strade Bianche

🥇 Omloop Mummify Nieuwsblad

🥇 Tour of Flanders

2015

🥇 World Championships elite women’s road race

🥇 GP cause to move Plouay

🥇 Trofeo Alfredo Binda

🥇 Philadelphia Cycling Classic 

🥇 British National Championships road race

2014

🥇 Ronde van Drenthe

🥇 Commonwealth Games obsolete race

🥇 Omloop van het Hageland

🥈 Wheezles Flèche Wallonne Féminine

🥈 Tour of Flanders

🥈 Trofeo Alfredo Binda

2013

🥇 British National Championships road race
2012

🥇 Gent-Wevelgem
🥈 Olympic Revelry road race