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Bradley Wiggins
Bradley Wiggins with new "training"
Personal information
Full nameBradley Marc Wiggins
NicknameWiggo
Born (1980-04-28) 28 April 1980 (age 44)
Ghent, Belgium
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st)
Team information
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DisciplineRoad & Track
RoleDope
Rider typeDoper
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 stage, ITT (2010)
Tour de France
1 stage, ITT (2012)

Stage Races

Critérium du Dauphiné (2011, 2012)
Paris–Nice (2012)
Tour de Romandie (2012)

Single-Day Races and Classics

National Road Race Champion (2011)
National Time Trial Champion (2009, 2010)
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Road bicycle racing
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2011 Copenhagen Time trial
Track cycling
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Team pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Stuttgart Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2007 Palma de Mallorca Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2007 Palma de Mallorca Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester Madison
Silver medal – second place 2000 Manchester Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2001 Antwerp Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2003 Stuttgart Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Ballerup Team pursuit
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester 4km Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 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 You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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He won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, three further medals at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, and two golds at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. In road cycling he turned professional in 2002, but his involvement was limited by his track cycling until 2007.

After the 2008 Olympics, Wiggins took a break from the track to focus on the road. Initially viewed as a time-trial specialist and a rouleur, Wiggins showed his ability in stage races when he came in fourth at the 2009 Tour de France, the joint highest placed finish by a British rider in Tour history. In 2010 he was hired as the leader for the new You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Early life

The son of an English mother, Linda, and Australian professional cyclist, Gary Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1980. Linda returned to London with Bradley in 1982 after she had split from his father. Bradley spent his childhood in Kilburn, London, with his mother, stepfather Brendon, younger brother, Ryan, and his grandparents. He started racing at south London's Herne Hill Velodrome aged 12, and represented Camden in the London Youth Games as a youngster. In 2010 he was inducted in to the London Youth Games Hall of Fame.

Career

Early years

At 20, Wiggins 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 Summer Olympics in Athens, Wiggins 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. Wiggins was appointed OBE in the 2005 New Year Honours for services to sport.

Wiggins rode the 2005 Giro d'Italia for You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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2007

Wiggins finished fourth in the prologue of the 2007 Tour de France in his home town, London

Wiggins returned to the track for the Manchester round of the UCI World Cup and the Track Cycling World Championships in 2007, winning the Individual and Team pursuit. He followed on the road by winning the prologue of the 2007 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. He raced for Cofidis in the 2007 Tour de France and finished fourth in the prologue in his hometown, London. He won the combativity award on stage six for a long solo breakaway, on the 40th anniversary of British rider Tom Simpson's death at the 1967 Tour de France, and his wife Catherine's birthday. Cofidis withdrew after Cristian Moreni failed a doping test, and Wiggins and his team mates were led away from the Tour by police. In the aftermath of Moreni, and race leader Alexandre Vinokurov's positive drug tests, Wiggins spoke out against dopers at the Tour, and threw away his Cofidis kit, vowing never to race for the team again.

2008

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Wiggins and Mark Cavendish on their way to becoming the 2008 world madison champions in Manchester

At the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, he won three gold medals: pursuit, team pursuit and madison. 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.

In October 2008 he published his autobiography, In Pursuit of Glory and joined the You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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On 14 December 2008 Wiggins came ninth in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award 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

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After finishing the 2009 Giro d'Italia 71st, which included second place in the final stage, Wiggins 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, Wiggins 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, equalling Robert Millar's highest ever finish by a British rider in the Tour.

Wiggins 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.

Wiggins 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 You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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2010

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Wiggins began 2010 as a team leader for the first time. He was part of the team who won the team time trial on stage one of the 2010 Tour of Qatar. On May 10, he took his first major win of the year, in the opening time trial of the 2010 Giro d'Italia and took the pink jersey. It was his first win at a Grand Tour. He lost the jersey on stage 2 to Cadel Evans following a crash-marred stage. He lost further time early on in the Giro, but recovered much of it on stage 11, in which he finished fourth. He faded quickly towards the end of the race, however, losing a lot of time over the final stages to finish 40th.

Wiggins entered the 2010 Tour de France with high expectations following his 4th place the year before. His Tour got off to a disappointing start however, when he could only manage 77th place in the opening prologue, after an early starting position left him exposed to poor conditions. Wiggins finished 8th on Stage 3, as cobblestones caught out a number of favourites. However, in Stage 8 (the first mountain summit finish of the Tour), Wiggins could only manage 19th place, losing 1 minute 45 seconds to stage winner Andy Schleck. Wiggins lost even more time the next day, on Stage 9, where he came 30th (losing 4 minutes 55 to the main contenders), which effectively ended hopes of a top 10 finish. He finished the Tour in 24th place, 39 minutes 7 seconds behind winner Andy Schleck, and 7 places behind team-mate Thomas Löfkvist. Contador was later found guilty of doping and the title of 2010 Tour De France winner was passed to second placed Andy Schleck.

Wiggins retained the British national time trial title at the National Championships.

2011

Wiggins was again team leader of Sky entering 2011. He opted against entering the 2011 Giro d'Italia, concentrating instead on shorter events and the classics, before undertaking altitude training to improve his climbing for the Tour de France. Wiggins finished 3rd overall in 2011 Paris-Nice after finishing 2nd in Stage 6. In March, he finished 2nd on the TT Stage 3 of the 2011 Critérium International.

Wiggins took his biggest road racing victory to date at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné

Wiggins won the ITT Stage 4 of 2011 Bayern-Rundfahrt, and finished the event in 14th place overall (and helping team-mate Geraint Thomas to win the event), before heading off for altitude training in preparation for the Tour de France. He took the overall lead of the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné after finishing 2nd on the ITT Stage 3. On the final three mountain stages Wiggins was able to maintain his lead over second placed Cadel Evans to win Dauphiné, his biggest victory in road racing. On 26 June, Wiggins won the British National Road Race Championships, his final race before the Tour de France. On 8 July, he crashed out of the 2011 Tour de France on stage 7 with a broken collarbone.

Following recovery from his injuries, it was confirmed by Team Sky that Wiggins would ride 2011 Vuelta a España for the first time, as well as the World Time Trial Championships. Wiggins also confirmed he would ride the 2012 Tour de France, despite the London Olympics coming soon after, and the Vuelta/ Time Trial Championships was seen as a dress-rehearsal for 2012.

Going into the Vuelta, Team Sky decided to claim they had new training programs while starting to dope their team of mediocre at best climbers into world class monsters, the prime example being Chris Froome, who rose to power after this conspiracy, doing at least 430 watts on the climbs, which is not possible for someone clean. They also made the famous "Sky Train" with their doped up team, ruining the sport by stopping any hope of exitement and forcing cycling fans besides Team Sky Fanboys to cringe.

Wiggins had a difficult start to the Vuelta as Sky finished 42 seconds back on the opening team time trial in Benidorm. However, a strong first week brought Wiggins back into contention, leaving him 19th overall after Stage 8. On Stage 9, Wiggins and teammate Chris Froome attacked on the final climb to finish 4th and 5th respectively, and taking time out of Joaquim Rodríguez, Michele Scarponi and other contenders. The stage moved both riders up in the standings, and Wiggins was expected to take the overall lead on the time trial the following day. However, Froome sprung a major surprise, finishing second on the stage, taking the red jersey for himself, whilst Wiggins rose to third overall. Wiggins took the leaders jersey, after the rest day. After losing a few seconds to Vincenzo Nibali on the following days, Stage 14 saw Wiggins and Froome taking time out of most of their rivals, with Nibali losing over a minute. Wiggins lost the lead of the Vuelta to Juan José Cobo on Stage 15, where he finished 5th on the climb up the Angliru. The Stage saw Wiggins drop to 3rd in the standings, with Froome ahead in second. Wiggins finished the Vuelta in 3rd overall, his first Grand Tour podium.

Wiggins during the 2011 UCI Road World Championship time trial

In September, Wiggins finished second behind Tony Martin in the UCI Road World Championship time trial to take the silver medal. Four days later, Wiggins was part of the Great Britain team that set up Mark Cavendish's victory in the Road Race.

2012

Although 2012 is an Olympic year, Wiggins' focus remains on road racing. The individual pursuit is no longer an Olympic event, and in December 2011 coach Rod Ellingworth told The Guardian, "The chances of him doing the team pursuit are really slim now". Wiggins is more likely to compete in the Olympic Road Race and Time Trial. Wiggins began his 2012 season with third place in the 2012 Volta ao Algarve, including victory in the race-concluding individual time trial, edging out world champion Tony Martin by less than a second. Wiggins also helped with team-mate Richie Porte's successful bid to win the race overall. In March, Wiggins finished second to You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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At Stage 1 of the 2012 Tour de Romandie in April, Wiggins took a rare sprint victory from a group of 59 riders to take the race lead. He lost the jersey to Luis León Sánchez after Sánchez won two consecutive stages. However, Wiggins won the final time trial, despite suffering a dropped chain, to take overall victory. He is the first British rider to win the event.

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Wiggins wearing the yellow jersey leading Team Sky at the 2012 Tour de France

He entered the 2012 Tour de France as one of the top favourites for overall victory. Wiggins began the Tour with second place in the prologue, behind Fabian Cancellara but taking time from all of his general classification rivals, finally taking the yellow jersey by finishing third on the first mountain top finish on stage 7. In doing so, he became only the second British rider to have led all three Grand Tours after David Millar. Wiggins won stage 9, an individual time trial, which ultimately helped him increase his lead over his competitors. On stage 10, Wiggins and his team were able to stave off an attack by Vincenzo Nibali on the descent of the Grand Columbier, leading Nibali to accuse Wiggins of showing him a lack of respect. Wiggins extended his lead on stage 11 after Chris Froome helped him to bridge across to Nibali and Jurgen Vandenbroeck, who had attacked on the finishing climb to La Toussuire, whilst Cadel Evans was dropped and slipped to fourth overall, behind Froome and Nibali. Froome had appeared to put Wiggins into difficulty at one point, and was ordered to wait for his leader. For his efforts in assisting Wiggins, Froome was lauded in the media as a super-domestique, and conceded that he was frustrated at being second fiddle, but vowed to help Wiggins win the Tour de France. Stage 12 passed without much incident with Wiggins maintaining his two minute lead over Froome. Stage 13 and 14, demonstrated Wiggins sportsmanship. Wiggins rode a strong race in Stage 13, leading the peleton and overtaking the leading group who had fallen back. Wiggins was in first, but instead of taking the stage win for himself, Wiggins slowed down in an attempt to lead his team-mate, Edvald Boasson Hagen to victory. His 'selfless act' failed but maintained his lead in the general classification. Stage 14, a mountain stage which was remembered for a sabotage incident involving a spectator(s) throwing carpet tacks onto the narrow road at the top of a climb. The tacks inflicted a number of punctures for a number of riders, including the defending champion and Wiggins's rival for the yellow jersey, Cadel Evans, who lost approximately two minutes as his team repaired his bicycle. Wiggins and his Team Sky team-mates emerged from the incident without a puncture. In response to the incident, Wiggins commanded his team-mates and competitors in the peloton to slow down to allow Evans and the affected cyclists to catch up - believing that a puncture resulting from an unfortunate incident should not determine the fate of a competitor. Evans and others duly caught up with the peleton, which remained together for the rest of the race, resulting in little change to the general classification. The act was perceived as a generous act of sportsmanship and Wiggins was called "Le Gentleman" following the race. On Stage 16, Wiggins and Froome were able to follow attacks by Nibali on the final climb of the day, and finished with the same time as the Italian to consolodate their positions.

Personal life

He married his wife Catherine in Manchester in November 2004 and has two children, Ben and Isabella. The family lives in Eccleston near Chorley, Lancashire close to the undulating west Pennines where he practices road cycling and a short drive down the M61 to the National Cycling Centre.

Wiggins is a well-known mod, and owns a collection of classic scooters and guitars from the 1960s and 1970s. In April 2012 it was announced that Wiggins would collaborate with the Fred Perry clothing label "to develop an authentic, non technical range of cycle wear".

Wiggins launched the 'Wiggo Foundation' in May 2012, which aims to promote participation in sport and encourage people to exercise on a regular basis.

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 UCI 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
2011 UCI Road World Championships
Silver, individual time trial

Commonwealth Games

2002 Commonwealth Games
Silver, 4km individual pursuit
Silver, team pursuit
1998 Commonwealth Games
Silver, team pursuit

Road cycling – major achievements

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
Combativity award Stage 6, Tour de France
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 2009 Tour de France
2010
1st British National Time Trial Championships
1st Stage 1 TTT Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 1 ITT Giro d'Italia
Held Maglia Rosa for Stage 1
2011
1st British National Road Race Championships
1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Stage 4 Bayern-Rundfahrt
2nd UCI Road World Championship Time Trial
3rd Overall Paris–Nice
3rd Overall Vuelta a España
Held Red Jerseygolden jersey from Stage 11–15
2012
1st Overall Paris-Nice
1st Points classification
1st Stage 8 ITT
1st Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 5 ITT
1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Stage 4 ITT
3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve
1st Stage 5 ITT
1st Stage 9 ITT Tour de France
Holds Yellow Jerseyyellow jersey from Stage 8-16

Grand Tour General Classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Pink jersey Giro 123 - - 134 71 40 - -
Yellow jersey Tour - 124 WD - 4 24 WD
golden jersey Vuelta - - - - - - 3

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

Other achievements

  • Hall of Fame member (Class of 2010)

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