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Bradley Wiggins Bradley Wiggins Medal record Track cycling Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team pursuit 2008 Beijing 4km individual pursuit 2004 Athens 4km individual pursuit 2004 Athens Team pursuit 2004 Athens Madison 2000 Sydney Team pursuit World Championships 2003 Stuttgart 4km Individual Pursuit 2007 Palma de Mallorca 4km Individual Pursuit 2007 Palma de Mallorca Team Pursuit 2008 Manchester 4km Individual Pursuit 2008 Manchester Team Pursuit 2008 Manchester Madison 2000 Manchester Team Pursuit 2001 Antwerp Team Pursuit 2003 Stuttgart Team Pursuit 2002 Ballerup Team Pursuit Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester 4km Individual Pursuit 2002 Manchester Team Pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team Pursuit

Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. He won three medals on the track at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, and two gold medals at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. He came fourth in the 2009 Tour de France.

Early years and family life

The son of a professional cyclist, Gary Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins was born in Ghent, Belgium and spent his childhood in London with his mother Linda and younger brother, Ryan. He started racing at south London's Herne Hill Velodrome aged 12. He lives in Eccleston, Lancashire. He married Catherine Cockram in Manchester in November 2004. They have two children, Ben and Isabella.

International cycling

At 20, Wigans won a bronze medal for Britain in the team pursuit at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

In 2001 he signed for the British professional road Linda McCartney Racing Team before it disbanded in early 2001. He joined You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Wigans became the first British athlete in 40 years to win three medals at one Games, the last being Mary Rand at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He won the gold in the pursuit, silver in the team pursuit, and bronze in the madison with his race partner Rob Hayles. Wigans was appointed OBE in the 2005 New Year Honours for services to sport.

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He raced for Cofidis in the 2007 Tour de France and finished fourth in the prologue in London. He won the combativity award on stage six for a long solo breakaway. Cofidis withdrew after Cristian Moreni failed a doping test.

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At the 2008 Beijing Olympics he again won the pursuit, the first rider to successfully defend a pursuit title at the Olympics. On 17 August, he was a member of the Olympic pursuit team which broke the world record in the heats with 3:55:202, beating Russia to the ride-off for silver and gold. The following day, the team won the gold with a world record of 3:53:314, beating Denmark by 6.7s. Wiggins paired up with Mark Cavendish in the madison and finished ninth.

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On 14 December 2008 Wigans came ninth in the BBC Sports Personality Awards with 5,633 votes. On 31 December Wiggins was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

2009

After finishing the 2009 Giro d'Italia 71st, which included second place in the final stage, Wigans arrived at the 2009 Tour de France having lost six kilos. He came third in the opening time-trial in Monaco and helped Garmin to second place in the team time-trial despite losing four riders. In the first mountain finish, Wigans finished 12th, and at 5th place overall entering the second week, had the highest second-week place by a British rider since Robert Millar. On the second mountain finish, in Verbier, Wiggins finished fifth to climb to third overall. He was attacked by the Schleck brothers on stage 17 and dropped to sixth, but moved to fourth in the stage 18 time-trial. On stage 20 to Mont Ventoux, Wiggins finished tenth and held fourth by three seconds ahead of Frank Schleck. He held that position in the final stage, joining Robert Millar as best British rider in Tour..

Wigans won the British National Time Trial Championships in September 2009.

In October 2009, he won the Herald Sun Tour after helping team-mates most of the race. He led after winning the stage five time-trial in Geelong by 14 seconds over team-mate Svein Tuft.

Wigans had been contracted to ride for Garmin Slipstream in 2010, but following much speculation it was announced in December 2009 that he was to leave to join Team Sky, having signed a four year contract with the new British based team.

Palmarès

Olympic Games

2000 Summer Olympics

Bronze, team pursuit

2004 Summer Olympics

Gold, 4km individual pursuit

Silver, team pursuit

Bronze, madison

2008 Summer Olympics

Gold, 4km individual pursuit

Gold, team pursuit

World Championships

1997 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships

Gold, 2km individual pursuit

2000 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Silver, team pursuit

2001 Track Cycling World Championships

Silver, team pursuit

2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Bronze, team pursuit

2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Gold, 4km individual pursuit

Silver, team pursuit

2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Gold, 4km individual pursuit

Gold, team pursuit

2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Gold, 4km individual pursuit

Gold, Team pursuit (world record time)

Gold, madison

Commonwealth Games

2002 Commonwealth Games

Silver, 4km individual pursuit

Silver, team pursuit

1998 Commonwealth Games

Silver, team pursuit

Professional victories

2003

1st Stage 1 ITT, Tour de l'Avenir

1st Six Days of Ghent

2005

1st Stage 2 ITT, Circuit de Lorraine

1st Stage 8, Tour de l'Avenir

2007

1st Prologue, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 1 ITT, Four Days of Dunkirk

1st Stage 4 ITT, Tour du Poitou-Charentes et de la Vienne

1st Duo Normand

Stage 6, combativity award

2009

1st British National Time Trial Championships

1st Overall Herald Sun Tour

1st Stage 5 ITT

1st Stage 1 TTT, Tour of Qatar

1st Stage 3b ITT, Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde

1st Beaumont Trophy

4th Overall, Tour de France

Grand Tour General Classification results timeline

WD = withdrew

World records

• 4000m Team Pursuit, 3:55:202, (as part of Great British team), Beijing China, 2008
• 4000m Team Pursuit, 3:53:314, (as part of Great British team), Beijing China, 2008

Quotes

• "Most people were too drunk to notice me." On his experiences of late-night practice runs for the London leg of the Tour de France.

• "It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets." A reference to the television programme, Big Brother, after finishing fourth in the Tour de France prologue.

References

1. ^ "Athlete Biography - WIGGINS Bradley". Beijing Olympics official website.
2. "Sport blog: Looking down from Herne Hill, I can see the future is bright". Guardian Unlimited. 8 April 2007.
3. Mike Pattenden (2008-08-24). "On the move: Bradley Wiggins". London: The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
4. ^ "Wiggins wheels his way to history". BBC SPORT. 31 December 2004.
5. "Wiggins' Cofidis team out of Tour". BBC SPORT. 25 July 2007.
6. "GB pursuit team set world record". BBC Sport. 17 August 2008.
7. "GB storm to gold in team pursuit". BBC Sport. 18 August 2008.
8. "Official Results". Beijing 2008. 20 July 2009.
9. "In Pursuit of Glory". Orion Books.
10. "BRADLEY WIGGINS SET TO JOIN GARMIN-CHIPOTLE". Cycling Weekly.
11. "Sports Personality – The Full Results". Cycling Weekly. 2008-12-15.
12. "No. 58929". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 31 December 2008.
13. "Wiggins stays with leaders in Tour de France". Cycling Weekly. 12 July 2009.
14. "Wiggins Erases the Bitterness of 2007 Tour". New York Times. 15 July 2009.
15. Robert Millar came fourth in 1984
16. "Wiggins and Pooley take British TT Champs titles". Cycling Weekly. 2009-09-06.
17. William Fotheringham (2009-12-10). "Bradley Wiggins joins Team Sky on four-year-deal". The Guardian.
18. "Quotes of the Week". BBC News. 2007-07-17.
19. "Fun and Games:Quotes of the Week". BBC News. 17 July 2007.

External links

• @bradwiggins on Twitter
• MTC management profile

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