David Millar
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David Millar (born 4 January 1977<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) is a Scottish retired professional road racing cyclist.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He rode for Cofidis from 1997 to 2004 and Garmin–Sharp from 2008 to 2014. He has won four stages of the Tour de France, five of the Vuelta a España and one stage of the Giro d'Italia. He was the British national road champion<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the national time trial champion,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> both in 2007.
Millar was banned for two years in 2004 after he admitted to taking banned performance-enhancing drugs.<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 29 July 2007">L'Équipe, France, 29 July 2007</ref><ref name="cyclismag.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Upon his return from his ban, Millar became an anti-doping campaigner, a stance which eventually resulted in journalist Alasdair Fotheringham describing him as an 'elder statesman' of cycling.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Early life and educationEdit
Millar is the son of Gordon and Avril Millar, both Scots. His father was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and Millar was born in Mtarfa, Malta, while his father was based there for a three-year tour of duty. His mother worked as a teacher.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has a sister, Frances (Fran) who also works in cycling, currently as the chief executive officer of Team Ineos.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The family returned to the United Kingdom, and lived at RAF Kinloss in Scotland before moving to Aylesbury, 60 km north-west of London. His father and mother divorced when Millar was 11 and his father moved to Hong Kong, when he joined the airline Cathay Pacific, which is based there. Millar considers Hong Kong as his home.<ref>L'Équipe, France, 3 July 2000</ref> Millar moved to Hong Kong to join his father when he was 13. He rode in BMX bike races in Hong Kong "and did pretty well."<ref name="Cycle Sport, UK, May 2000">Cycle Sport, UK, May 2000</ref> He bought a road bike in 1992 and raced at 6.30 in the morning before the roads began filling with traffic.
At King George V School he chose mathematics, economics and geography as his A-level, pre-university, examination subjects, then switched to art, graphics and sports studies at his father's suggestion. He completed his A-levels and, having moved back to England to be with his mother in Maidenhead, enrolled at an arts college. He started cycling with a club in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. His mother, Avril, took him there so that he would make new friends<ref name="Sunday Times, UK, 27 June 2004">Sunday Times, UK, 27 June 2004</ref> and have something to do.<ref name="Cycle Sport, UK, May 2000"/> At age 18, a week before he was due to start at the arts college, he went to race in France. He joined a club at St-Quentin, in the Picardy region, and won eight races.<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004">L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004</ref> Five professional teamsTemplate:Efn offered him a contract. He signed with Cyrille Guimard because his team, Cofidis, was based in the area<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004" /> and he knew of Guimard's skill in recognising young talent.<ref name="Cycle Sport, UK, May 2000"/>
Early careerEdit
2000–2003: early yearsEdit
In his first professional season, Millar won the prologue of the Tour de l'Avenir and the competition for the best young rider in the Mi-Août Breton. He profited from his background in 10-mile time-trials in Britain to win the first stage of the 2000 Tour de France,<ref>Finish-line interview with Jean-Paul Ollivier, France 2 television</ref> a 16 km time-trial at Futuroscope. He held the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for a few days. He failed to repeat his feat at Dunkirk in 2001 after puncturing in a bend and crashing. He finished fifth in the prologue in 2002 on a rolling course at Luxembourg. His attempt to win the prologue in central Paris in the centenary Tour of 2003 ended when his chain dropped off 500 m before the finish. He lost by 0.14 s to Brad McGee. Millar had ridden a bike without a front derailleur to save weight.Template:Efn He blamed his directeur sportif, Alain Bondue. "It wasn't a problem with my chainring; it was a problem with my team", he told journalists at the finish. He said Bondue had tried to save a few grams by removing the derailleur. Bondue said he had told Millar to use a front derailleur after other riders had similar problems.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Procycling, UK, July 2006">Procycling, UK, July 2006</ref> Bondue was demoted to logistics manager.<ref name="Procycling, UK, July 2006"/>
Hopes of winning the Tour de France were fuelled by his stage win in the 2001 Vuelta a España, when he was in a breakaway with Santiago Botero on a mountain stage. Millar won a gold medal for Malta in the 2001 Games of the Small States of Europe,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> held in San Marino. Millar was selected for the Scotland team for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, but withdrew to compete for Cofidis instead.<ref>Millar confirms Games withdrawal, bbc.co.uk, 25 July 2002.</ref>
In the 2002 Vuelta a España, stage 15 included the ascent of the Alto de l'Angliru in rain. Team cars stalled on the steepest part, some unable to restart because their tires slipped on messages painted by fans.<ref name="Procycling, UK, November 2003">Procycling, UK, November 2003</ref> Riders were caught behind them and others had to ride with flat tires because mechanics could not reach them. Millar crashed three times,<ref>Procycling, UK, November 2002</ref> and protested by handing in his race number a metre from the line, effectively abandoning from the race. The judges ruled he had not finished the stage and he was not reinstated, having already left for his home in Biarritz.<ref>No way back for Millar</ref><ref>Epica y polémica Template:In lang</ref> He regretted his temper—he had been ninth—and later apologised to his team.<ref name="Procycling, UK, November 2003" />
DopingEdit
Millar was dining in a restaurant with Dave Brailsford<ref name="Telegraph 20 July 2012">Template:Cite news</ref> in Bidart, near Biarritz, on 23 June 2004 when he was approached by three plainclothes policemen of the Paris drug squad at 8.25pm.<ref name="Sunday Times, UK, 27 June 2004"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They detained Millar and took his watch, shoelaces, jewellery, keys and phone.<ref name="Procycling, UK, September 2004">Procycling, UK, September 2004</ref> After searching his home for two and a half hours they found empty phials of Eprex, a brand of the blood-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO), and two used syringes.<ref name="Sunday Times, UK, 27 June 2004"/>Template:Efn Millar claimed he had been given them as a gift at the Tour of Spain, and that he had taken them to Manchester and used them there. After that he had kept them as a souvenir. The detectives took Millar into custody.<ref name="Procycling, UK, September 2004"/>
The raid followed the arrest at the start of 2004 of Bogdan Madejak, a Cofidis soigneur.<ref name="Guardian 23 Jan 2004">Template:Cite news</ref> Police, looking to find out more about the drugs found on Madejak, turned their attention to another rider on the team, Philippe Gaumont, as he arrived at Orly airport on 20 January 2004.<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004"/><ref name="Guardian 23 Jan 2004"/> On 22 January 2004 the magazine, Le Point, published transcripts of police phone taps.<ref name="Guardian 23 Jan 2004"/>
Gaumont said he had given Millar the drugs and syringes the day before the Tour finished on the Champs-Élysées in 2003, when Millar won the time-trial. Gaumont said he didn't know what was in the syringe but that "ça m'avait bloqué (that blocked me; i.e. kept me from going well)." Millar denied the claim to the investigating judge, and said that team doctor Menuet was the best person he had ever met and that he was "like a father to me at races."<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004"/> He denied Gaumont's claims that Millar had taken drugs by mixing Stilnox, a sleeping powder, with ephedrine, a stimulant.<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004"/> He called Gaumont a lunatic and said he was talking "absolute crap."<ref name="Procycling, UK, July 2004">Procycling, UK, July 2004</ref> But Millar's phone calls had been tapped for four months<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004"/> and Millar eventually confessed to police on 24 June 2004.<ref name="L'Équipe 91924">L'Equipe 91924 25 June 2004 Cyclisme – Dopage – Millar dans la tourmente, lequipe.fr; accessed 15 March 2016.Template:In lang</ref>
Millar admitted using EPO in 2001 and 2003. He blamed it on stress, in particular losing the prologue in the 2003 Tour and being beaten by Jan Ullrich in the 2001 world time trial championship. Under cycling rules a confession equates to a positive test.<ref name="L'Équipe 91924"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
British Cycling suspended him for two years in August 2004. He was disqualified as 2003 world time trial champion, fined CHF2,000 (approx. €1250), and disqualified from the 2003 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and 2001 Vuelta a España.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Cofidis fired Millar and withdrew from racing while it carried out an internal investigation. Several Cofidis riders and assistants were fired. Alain Bondue, the team's director, and Menuet, the doctor, left the team.<ref name="Procycling, UK, July 2004"/> Vasseur was forbidden to start the 2004 Tour de France but later cleared.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Millar failed in an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reduce his ban, but the court did backdate his suspension to the day he confessed, 24 June 2004.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Millar was prosecuted in a French court in Nanterre in 2006 with nine other defendants, mostly from Cofidis. The court decided it was not clear he had taken drugs in France and that charges could not be pursued.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The doctor he had consulted lived in Spain, south of Biarritz and across the Pyrenees. Millar's statement to the judge stated that he had succumbed to the pressure of racing, the expectations placed on him by British fans, and an inability to make close friends. Winning the prologue of the Tour de France made things worse; he had worn the maillot jaune of leadership – his "dream", he said – and when it was all over he was back in his apartment with no friends and just a television for company.<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004"/>
Millar has claimed that doping gained him 25 seconds in the 2003 world time-trial championship.<ref name="The Guardian, UK, 17 January 2006">Template:Cite news</ref> He toasted his championship in the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas.<ref name="Procycling, UK, January 2006">Procycling, UK, January 2006</ref> But the suspension cost Millar his job, his income and his house. Millar then began abusing alcohol for much of a year.<ref name="L'Équipe, France, 29 July 2007"/><ref name="Procycling, UK, January 2006"/> He said he had scraped by with the help of family and friends.Template:Citation needed
Later careerEdit
2005–2007: post-suspensionEdit
Millar moved to Hayfield, on the edge of the Peak District of northern England,<ref name="The Guardian, UK, 17 January 2006" /><ref name="Procycling, UK, January 2006"/> to be close to the Manchester Velodrome where British cycling has its headquarters. He joined a Spanish team, Template:UCI team code. Its manager, Mauro Gianetti, had contacted him nine months into his suspension.<ref name="Procycling, UK, January 2006"/>
Millar's suspension ended a week before the 2006 Tour de France and he rode with Template:UCI team code. He finished 17th in the prologue and 11th on the penultimate, time-trial stage. He finished 59th of 139 finishers, more than 2 hours behind the winner, Óscar Pereiro.Template:Efn In the 2006 Vuelta a España, Millar won in stage 14, a time trial around the city of Cuenca. On 3 October, he won the British 4,000m individual pursuit championship in 4m 22.32s at Manchester.
He left Template:UCI team codeTemplate:Efn to join an American team, Template:UCI team code<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> run by Jonathan Vaughters, a former rider. Vaughters stressed the team's stance against doping.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the 2007 season, Millar won both the British road and time trial championships and came second in the Eneco Tour, 11 seconds behind José Iván Gutiérrez. His other victory of the year came in the Paris–Nice, during which he won the prologue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2008–2014: career with GarminEdit
For the start of the 2008 season, Slipstream became known as Garmin Slipstream, and Millar took on part ownership of the team, in order to foster their anti-doping stance.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He helped orchestrate Template:UCI team code's victory in the Giro d'Italia opening team time trial. Millar was part of a five-man winning break on stage five of the 2008 Giro d'Italia when his chain broke in the last kilometreTemplate:Citation needed and he flung his bike to the roadside.
In the 2008 Tour de France, Millar came third in the time trial on stage four, 18 seconds behind the winner. Overall he finished 68th, 1h 59m 39s behind Carlos SastreTemplate:Citation needed. His best results of the season came in the 2008 Tour of California in which he finished second overall.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Millar rode the 2009 Giro d'Italia and then the 2009 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, finishing ninth overall. He competed in both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. His best performance in a stage was winning the stage 20 time trial at the Vuelta. The race was Millar's first win for two years, and his fifth at the Vuelta.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2010 saw Millar continue his strong time-trial form, with stage wins at the Critérium International and the Three Days of De Panne. De Panne also saw Millar gain his first multi-stage race victory since the 2001 Circuit de la Sarthe. Millar had a number of high placings in major time trials earlier in the season – he finished third in the prologue of the 2010 Tour de France and second in stage three of the Critérium du Dauphiné.Template:Citation needed An injury in the Tour de France hampered the rest of his season, though he finished all three grand tours. Millar then matched his best cleanTemplate:Clarify placing at the Men's World Time-Trial Championships, finishing second behind Fabian Cancellara. Shortly after, at the Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal in the time trial<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a bronze in the road race.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2011 saw Millar suffer from illness Template:Clarify early in the season,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> missing many of the classics. His best performance was a 3rd-place finish in the overall of the Circuit de la Sarthe.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He recovered in time for the Giro d'Italia, finishing second on stage 3 to take the pink jersey as leader of the general classification.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Millar's lead, however, was overshadowed by the death of Wouter Weylandt in the Giro on the same day; in the role of race leader, Millar helped organise the tributes to Weylandt's during the subsequent day's neutralised stage.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
He later won the time-trial stage 21 of the Giro, meaning that he became only the third British rider – after Robert Millar and Mark Cavendish – to achieve victories in all three Grand Tours during his career. In June he published his autobiography titled Racing Through the Dark, which Richard Williams in The Guardian wrote was "one of the great first-person accounts of sporting experience".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Millar was team captain of the Great Britain team that helped Cavendish win the 2011 UCI World Championships road race.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Millar fractured his collarbone in a crash in the 2012 E3 Harelbeke one-day race in Belgium on 23 March.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He returned to competition at the Tour of Bavaria and the Critérium du Dauphiné, where his best result was a 9th place on stage 4. Despite his injuries earlier in the season, Millar was selected to ride his 11th Tour de France.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He won stage 12 by escaping with four other riders, arriving Template:Convert from the finish line in Annonay–Davézieux with more than ten minutes of an advantage over the bunch. He took the win after much cat-and-mouse-play with Jean-Christophe Péraud of Template:UCI team code.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was the fourth British rider to win a stage in a tour, as Bradley Wiggins became the second British rider to win the event (Nicole Cooke won the women's Tour in 2006). Millar was selected to race on the British Road Race Team for the London Olympics.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He reprised his role of team captain from the 2011 World Championships, again aiming to steer Mark Cavendish to victory. Millar and GB teammates Bradley Wiggins, Ian Stannard and Chris Froome were forcedTemplate:Citation needed to set the tempo for the majority of the race, with little help from the other nationsTemplate:Citation needed, and were eventually unable to reel back a thirty-man breakaway that had gone clear on the final climb of the Box Hill circuit, leaving Cavendish to come in forty seconds behind the winner, Alexander Vinokourov.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Millar was not selected to make the 2014 Tour de France team, a decision that left him 'devastated and shocked'.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Millar retired from professional cycling after the 2014 season<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> with his last competitive start being at the Bec CC Hill Climb in October.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The final year of Millar's career was captured by documentary maker Finlay Pretsell for the film Time Trial. Intended as an insight into the world of professional cycling, the film took on themes of aging and retirement as it traced Millar's growing realisation that he was unable to perform at his previous levels.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Time Trial was released to cinemas in the UK on 29 June 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Post-racing careerEdit
In March 2015 Millar revealed he was coaching former teammate Ryder Hesjedal,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and he has taken a mentoring role with the Great Britain under-23 cycling squad.<ref name="RCUK 16">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He represented the professional cyclists' body Cyclistes Professionnels Associes (CPA) on the UCI's working group to establish an Extreme Weather Protocol to provide clear guidance on procedures in the event of severe weather affecting a race; the protocol was first used at the 2016 Paris–Nice.<ref name="RCUK 16" /> In 2018, he announced that he would challenge incumbent CPA president Gianni Bugno for the leadership of the organisation, running on a manifesto which advocated democratic reforms to the union's voting system, a financial audit of its finances, and improving communication with riders.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This was the first contested election in the CPA's history: Millar was defeated by Bugno, winning 96 votes to the latter's 379.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Millar launched his 'Chpt3' brand in 2015, collaborating with various partners to produce a range of cycling-related products, including bikes and clothing.<ref name="RCUK 16" /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He works as a cycling journalist and pundit, and since 2016 has been the co-commentator on ITV's coverage of the Tour de France and Vuelta a España.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Millar also co-hosts Never Strays Far, a "cycling-adjacent" podcast, with fellow ITV commentator Ned Boulting and former pro Peter Kennaugh.
Personal lifeEdit
On 9 September 2011, Millar's wife, Nicole, gave birth to their son, Archibald Millar,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> their second son, Harvey Millar, was born on 2 May 2013.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Their daughter Maxine Millar was born on 31 December 2015.
In 2013, while giving consultation to the production of the film The Program, Millar hit his head on a low-hanging beam while walking through a hotel. The accident left him without a sense of smell.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Millar's sister, Fran, was appointed CEO of the cycling team Team Ineos in June 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He is not related to Robert Millar, now living as Philippa York, a fellow road cyclist from the west of Scotland whose main success came in the mid-1980s.<ref>Scots cyclist David Millar publishes open letter to Philippa York, The Herald, 8 July 2017</ref>
Major resultsEdit
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- 1994
- 2nd Overall Junior Tour of Wales
- 1996
- 2nd Paris–Évreux
- 1997
- 1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir
- 1998
- Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Prologue & 6 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT) Three Days of De Panne
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 1999
- 1st Manx International
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Critérium International
- 3rd Tour de Vendée
- 3rd Gran Premio di Chiasso
- 4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 1st File:Jersey red.svg Mountains classification
- 4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 2000
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- Held File:Jersey yellow.svg after Stages 1–3
- Held File:Jersey green.svg after Stage 1
- Held File:Jersey white.svg after Stages 1–3
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
- 9th Overall Route du Sud
- 1st Stage 1b (ITT)
- 2001
- 1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
- 1st Stages 4 (ITT) & 5
- 1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 6
- Held File:Jersey gold.svg after Stages 1–3
- 1st Stage 4b (ITT) Euskal Bizikleta
- 1st File:Gold medal blank.svg Time trial, Games of the Small States of Europe
- 2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd Paris–Camembert
- 3rd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 4th Overall Tour de Picardie
- 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2002
- 1st Stage 13 Tour de France
- 2nd Overall Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 10th Milano–Torino
- 2003
1st File:Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial, UCI Road World Championships1st Stage 19 (ITT) Tour de FranceTemplate:Efn<ref name="Sport.scotsman.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Picardie
- 1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España
- 1st Prologue Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Vuelta a Burgos
- 3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 3rd Classique des Alpes
- 4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 2006
- 1st File:MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
- 1st Stage 14 (ITT) Vuelta a España
- 2007
- National Road Championships
- 1st Prologue Paris–Nice
- 2nd Overall Eneco Tour
- Tour de France
- Held File:Jersey polkadot.svg after Stages 1–2
- 2008
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
- 2nd Overall Tour of California
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 9th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2009
- 1st Stage 20 (ITT) Vuelta a España
- 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- File:Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France
- 2010
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT)
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 5th Overall Critérium International
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 2011
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 21 (ITT)
- Held File:Jersey pink.svg after Stage 2
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de France
- 2nd Overall Tour of Beijing
- 3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 3rd Overall Eneco Tour
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 10th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2012
- 1st Stage 12 Tour de France
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 2013
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2014
- 8th Time trial, Commonwealth Games
Grand Tour general classification results timelineEdit
| Grand Tour | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 94 | DNF | DNF | 99 | — | DNF | — |
| File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France | 62 | DNF | 68 | 55 | — | — | 56 | 68 | 67 | 82 | 157 | 76 | 106 | 113 | — |
| File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España | — | 41 | DNF | 103 | — | — | 64 | — | — | 80 | 108 | — | — | — | 144 |
Major championship results timelineEdit
| Event | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Gold medal olympic.svg Olympic Games | Time trial | Not held | 16 | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | |||||||||
| Road race | — | — | — | 108 | |||||||||||||||
| File:Jersey rainbow.svg World Championships | Time trial | 20 | — | — | — | 2 | 6 | — | — | 15 | 18 | 9 | — | 2 | 7 | — | — | — | |
| Road race | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF | 86 | — | — | 35 | 54 | DNF | DNF | DNF | 114 | — | — | DNF | |
| File:Gold medal blank.svg Commonwealth Games | Time trial | NH | — | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | 1 | Not held | 8 | ||||||||
| Road race | — | — | — | 3 | 11 | ||||||||||||||
| File:MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships | Time trial | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Road race | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 25 | — | — | — | — | 3 | DNF | |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
See alsoEdit
- List of British cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification
- List of doping cases in cycling
- Yellow jersey statistics
- Time Trial (film)
NotesEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
External linksEdit
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