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Bradley Wiggins
Wiggins at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné
Personal information
Full nameBradley Marc Wiggins
NicknameBigwig
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
RoleRider
Rider typeRouleur/GC Contender (Road) and Pursuitist (Track)
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General Classification (2012)
2 stages, ITT (2012)
Giro d'Italia
1 stage, ITT (2010)

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
Olympic Games
Representing  Great Britain
Road bicycle racing
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Time trial
Track cycling
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 2000 Sydney Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Madison
World Championships
Representing  Great Britain
Road bicycle racing
Silver medal – second place 2011 Copenhagen Time trial
Track cycling
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
Commonwealth Games
Representing  England
Track cycling
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester Team pursuit

Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British professional track and road racing cyclist, riding for the UCI ProTeam You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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  • {{Contentious topics/list}} and {{Contentious topics/table}} show which topics are currently designated as contentious topics. They are used by a number of templates and pages on Misplaced Pages.. Wiggins began his career on the track, but has made the transition to road cycling, becoming one of the few cyclists to gain success in both forms of professional cycling. He won the 2012 Tour de France, becoming the first British winner in its history.

Among his many accomplishments, Wiggins holds two unique achievements: he is the only cyclist to have won the Tour de France and an Olympic gold medal in the same year and the only person to have won a Grand Tour and a gold medal in Olympic track cycling. Wiggins has won seven Olympic medals, including four gold, the joint most of any British Olympian and the third most gold medals by a British Olympian, behind Chris Hoy and Steve Redgrave.

Wiggins's career began in track cycling, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison events, before he gradually moved towards road racing. He has won six cycling World Championships, his first in 2003 and his most recent in 2008. Wiggins won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, three additional medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, two golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics and one gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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, then 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

Wiggins was born in 1980 in Ghent, Belgium, where his Australian father, Gary Wiggins, an endurance cyclist, was based. When his parents separated in 1982, he moved to London with his mother to stay with his maternal grandparents at the Dibdin House estate in Maida Vale. Wiggins endured a difficult relationship with his father Gary, who made little effort to see Bradley throughout his childhood in the United Kingdom. They only ever met each other just before the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. However, both quickly went opposite ways with Bradley disillusioned at his father's alcohol and drug problems. They never met each other again - Gary Wiggins died in 2008 aged 55 in Aberdeen, New South Wales.

Wiggins' mother, Linda, was a school secretary at St Augustine's Church of England High School, a Voluntary Aided Church of England state comprehensive school in Kilburn in North London, which Bradley attended. He has a younger stepbrother, Ryan. He started racing at south London's Herne Hill Velodrome at age 12 and represented Camden in the London Youth Games as a teenager. In 2010 he was inducted in to the London Youth Games' Hall of Fame.

Career

Early years

At age 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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Wiggins was appointed OBE in the 2005 New Year Honours for services to sport. In early 2005, he revealed his desire to participate in road cycling. He moved to Cofidis for the 2006 season and was selected to ride the 2006 Tour de France for the first time in his career.

2007

Wiggins finished fourth in the prologue of the 2007 Tour de France in 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 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 at the Olympics and a chance for a fourth Olympic gold medal for Bradley Wiggins. Being the reigning World Champions in the madison event, they were considered favourites for the gold medal – but they disappointed and finished ninth. The result created a feud between the pair, with Cavendish being the only British cyclist (from a team of thirteen cyclists) at the 2008 Olympics not to have won a medal and felt that Wiggins did not perform to his maximum potential in the madison. Wiggins and Cavendish did not talk to each other for a number of months, with Wiggins stating: "Cav is like my little brother and I love him dearly. But we left the stadium without saying a word to each other and we've yet to speak". Wiggins patched up his friendship with a laconic text asking Cavendish: "Hi, do you remember me?", to which Cavendish replied and have remained good friends since as both have made the transition to road cycling.

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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 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 10 May, 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. This 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 at Morzine-Avoriaz (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 more time the following day, at 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 in 24th place, 39 minutes 7 seconds behind Andy Schleck, the winner, 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 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 one of his biggest road racing victories 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, at that time 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. He 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 leader's 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 time trial at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships, coming in second to claim the silver medal

In September, Wiggins finished second behind Tony Martin in the time trial at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships 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

In 2012 Wiggins' focus remained 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". He began his 2012 season with third place in the 2012 Volta ao Algarve, including victory in the race-concluding 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 the overall victory. He became the first British rider to ever win the event.

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Wiggins wearing the yellow jersey on his way to victory on the stage 19 time trial of the 2012 Tour de France

He entered the 2012 Tour de France as one of the 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, while 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 peloton and overtaking the leading group who had fallen back. Wiggins was in first, but instead of taking the stage win for himself, he slowed down to try (unsuccessfully) to lead his team-mate, Edvald Boasson Hagen to victory, but he maintained his own lead in the general classification.

Stage 14, a mountain stage, was remembered for a sabotage incident involving a spectator throwing carpet tacks onto the narrow road at the top of the climb of the Mur de Péguère. 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 instructed 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 peloton, 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 consolidate their positions.

Wiggins won the time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics

On stage 17, the final mountain stage, Froome and Wiggins finished together in second and third place respectively and taking further time from all of their rivals to put Wiggins on the verge of victory. He further solidified his position by winning the stage 19 time trial, and opening a likely insurmountable lead of 3:21 heading into the final stage. On the final stage, Wiggins led out Mark Cavendish to his fourth consecutive victory on the Champs-Élysées, confirming his overall victory in the process. Wiggins became the first, and is currently the only person in history to win the Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie, Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France in one single season. On 23 July, Queen Elizabeth II issued a message of congratulation: "I send you my warmest congratulations on becoming the first British cyclist ever to win the Tour de France. Your historic achievement of claiming overall victory in this prestigious event is a great testament to the efforts of you and your teammates."

Wiggins rang the bell to start the opening ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was selected to participate in two road cycling events at the Olympics – the time trial and the road race. Wiggins along with David Millar, Ian Stannard, Chris Froome aimed to guide the team's sprinter, Mark Cavendish to victory in the road race. However, after the team tried to control the entire race, a large breakaway formed on the final ascent of Box Hill in Surrey, and despite Wiggins' best efforts Team GB could not bring back the leaders, with Cavendish eventually finishing 40 seconds behind winner Alexander Vinokourov. Wiggins won gold in the time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics, ahead of Tony Martin of Germany and team-mate Chris Froome. He became the most decorated British Olympian in the process, with seven medals in total, surpassing the six won by Steve Redgrave.This record is now shared with Chris Hoy who also obtained his 7th Olympic medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Bradley and Catherine Wiggins married in Manchester in November 2004 and have two children. The family lives in Eccleston, Lancashire, a short drive down the M61 to the Manchester Velodrome, home of British Cycling and Team Sky. Wiggins is a supporter of Liverpool Football Club and rugby league club Wigan Warriors.

Wiggins speaks fluent French through his participation with French cycling teams, and he lived in France for a number of years. He is a well-known mod, and owns a collection of classic scooters and guitars from the 1960s and 1970s. Wiggins is a keen musician and guitarist.

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. Wiggins named the foundation after his nickname, garnered from fans and the media, "Wiggo", frequently paired with the RAF roundel.

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
2012 Summer Olympics
Gold, road time trial

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

2001
1st Overall Flèche du Sud
2003
1st Stage 1 ITT, Tour de l'Avenir
1st Six Days of Ghent (with Matt Gilmore)
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 (with Michael Elijzen)
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 Tour de France
1st Stage 9 ITT
1st Stage 19 ITT
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 Olympic Road Time Trial

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 - 123 WD - 4 24 WD 1
golden jersey Vuelta - - - - - - 3

WD = withdrew.

World records and other achievements

Wiggins at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics
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
Achievements
Hall of Fame
  • Hall of Fame member (Class of 2010)

See also

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