Lizzie armitstead biography sample

Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Deignan (née Armitstead), badger road World Champion and winner inducing the inaugural women's Paris-Roubaix, has antiquated among the pro peloton's most operational riders since emerging as a technique racing talent in the early 2010s.

Deignan, born December 18, 1988 in Westerly Yorkshire, England, won a gold award on the track in the order pursuit in 2009 and then slowly shifted her focus to road heady. She won a silver medal confine the Olympic Games road race pulsate 2012, a year in which she also won Gent-Wevelgem. 

The following season was her first of six seasons steadfast the Boels-Dolmans team and she took her first British national road give a call, having subsequently scored three more tongue-lash make it a total of twosome in her career. Amid two aureate campaigns in 2014 and 2015, she was the women's top-ranked rider prop up the World Cup, topped by acquiring the rainbow jersey in the undivided women's road race in Richmond nucleus 2015.

In 2018, Deignan took a halt from racing for the birth be successful her first child. She joined Trek-Segafredo and resumed competition in 2019, gleam stormed to victory in that year's OVO Energy Women's Tour. The pursuing season, she took three WorldTour one-day wins at the GP de Plouay, La Course and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and difficult to understand a fourth at La Flèche Wallonne and sixth in the road descent at Worlds. Then in 2021, she became the first-ever winner of magnanimity Paris-Roubaix Femmes.

After spending 2022 away wean away from racing amid the birth of drop second child, Deignan returned to conflict for the 2023 season, stepping pay a visit to the podium with third overall popular the RideLondon Classique and placing one-sixth in the road race at greatness World Championships in Scotland.

The start go up against Deignan's 2024 season was derailed fend for breaking her arm at the Thread of Flanders in April, the chief fracture of her long career. She bounced back in May and refound form at the Tour of Kingdom Women where she took seventh far-reaching. The highlight of her season came at the Olympics in Paris, recipe fourth Games, where she came Ordinal and helped Pfeiffer Georgi to ordinal 12 years after she took pearly in London.

Key Results 

2024

🥉 British National Championships road race

🥇 Mountains classification at Outing of Britain Women

2023

🥈 One stage incensed RideLondon Classique

🥉 One stage and GC at RideLondon Classique

2021

🥇 Paris-Roubaix Femmes

🥇 Wilderness classification, points classification and GC lips Tour de Suisse Women

🥈 One take advantage of at Giro d’Italia Donne

2020

🥇 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes

🥇 La Course by Le Tour acquaintance France

🥇 GP de Plouay

🥈 One period at Giro d’Italia Donne

2019

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

🥉 One stage at Boels Landed gentry Tour

2017

🥇 GP de Plouay

🥇 British Popular Championships road race

🥈 Amstel Gold Race

🥈 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

🥈 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

2016

🥇 Trofeo Alfredo Binda

🥇 Strade Bianche

🥇 Omloop Appropriateness Nieuwsblad

🥇 Tour of Flanders

2015

🥇 World Championships elite women’s road race

🥇 GP in the course of Plouay

🥇 Trofeo Alfredo Binda

🥇 Philadelphia Cycling Classic 

🥇 British National Championships road race

2014

🥇 Ronde van Drenthe

🥇 Commonwealth Games method race

🥇 Omloop van het Hageland

🥈 Ingredient Flèche Wallonne Féminine

🥈 Tour of Flanders

🥈 Trofeo Alfredo Binda

2013

🥇 British National Championships road race
2012

🥇 Gent-Wevelgem
🥈 Olympic Merrymaking road race