Bradley Wiggins

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Bradley Wiggins Road cycling
Bradley Wiggins as European Team Pursuit Champion (2015)
Bradley Wiggins as European
Team Pursuit Champion (2015)
To person
Full name Bradley Marc Wiggins
Nickname Wiggo
Date of birth 28th April 1980 (age 40)
nation United Kingdom
discipline Road and rail
Team (s)
2001
2002–2003
2004–2005
2006–2007
2008
2009
2010–2015
2015–2016 		Linda McCartney Racing Team
FDJeux.com
Crédit Agricole
Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone
Team High Road / Team Columbia
Garmin-Slipstream
Sky ProCycling
Team Wiggins
Most important successes
Grands Tours

• Tour de France 2012

WorldTour

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

Olympic games

gold4000 m team pursuit in Rio de Janeiro 2016
gold individual time trial in London 2012
gold 4000 m team pursuit in Beijing 2008
gold 4000 m individual pursuit in Beijing 2008
gold 4000 m individual pursuit in Athens 2004

World championships

Jersey rainbow.svg4000 m individual pursuit ( 2003 , 2007 , 2008 )
Jersey rainbow.svgMadison ( 2008 )
Jersey rainbow.svg4000 m team pursuit ( 2007 , 2008 )
Jersey rainbow.svgindividual time trial ( 2014 )

Hour record

• 54.526 km on June 7, 2015

Last updated: January 10, 2018

Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins , CBE (born April 28, 1980 in Ghent , Belgium ) is a retired British cyclist . He is a five-time Olympic champion , winner of the 2012 Tour de France and an eight-time world champion , including seven times on the track and once in the individual time trial on the road .

Career

Successes in all track endurance disciplines

Bradley Wiggins was born in 1980 to an Australian father and a British mother in Ghent, Belgium (see private information ). At first he concentrated mainly on track cycling for many years . He celebrated his first major success at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur . Here he won the silver medal with the English selection. In 2000 he finished second in the team pursuit for the first time at the World Railroad Championships . He repeated this success in 2001 and 2003 . He also finished third with the British team in 2002 . At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , he secured the bronze medal in the team pursuit. During the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 he won the silver medal in the individual and team pursuit. At the 2003 World Cup, he became world champion in the single pursuit for the first time.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he was first Olympic champion in the single pursuit. Two days later he won silver in the team pursuit with the British team and another two days later he secured bronze at the Madison together with Rob Hayles . On December 31, 2004, he was awarded the OBE for his performance in sport and the CBE in 2009.

Wiggins turned pro in 2002 with the French road cycling team La Française des Jeux . In 2003 he won the prologue of the Tour de l'Avenir . After two years he moved to Crédit Agricole and in 2006 to the French ProTeam Cofidis . After two years at Cofidis, he switched to Team High Road for the 2008 season . This year, he won at the Olympics in Beijing gold in the team and in the individual pursuit. For the 2009 season he moved to the Garmin Slipstream team . After only one year in this team, another change followed for the 2010 season, this time to the newly formed British Sky Professional Cycling Team .

Switch to the road and win the Tour de France

For the 2009 season, Bradley Wiggins prepared intensively for the road races. He reduced his body weight and trained specifically to drive long mountains and passes. This paid off in the Tour de France : After Wiggins had been third overall for a long time, he finally finished fourth in Paris. At the 2011 Tour de France he was in sixth place up to the seventh stage, 10 seconds behind the leader, when he fell and had to retire due to a broken collarbone .

Wiggins on his 2012 Tour victory

In 2012 he succeeded in winning the overall ranking of the Tour de France . It was the first British victory in the 109-year history of the Tour of France. In the same year he won the gold medal in the individual time trial at the Summer Olympics in London . At the end of the season he was awarded the Vélo d'Or combined with the title of cyclist of the year 2012 .

In August 2013, Wiggins announced that he would race for Team Sky for another year on the road and then switch back to the track with a view to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . After he was not nominated by his team for the 2014 Tour de France , he started on the track at the 2014 Commonwealth Games . In interviews he was critical of road cycling: “Somehow I've had enough of road cycling [...] I don't enjoy it anymore. It has become so political and bureaucratic. ”In addition, there is no loyalty in road cycling, while in track cycling“ people stick together like a family ”.

During the 2014 UCI Road World Championships , where Wiggins won the title of world champion in the individual time trial , he announced that he would like to improve the hour record in 2015 . In January 2015 he presented his new team called Team Wiggins , which with teammates Steven Burke , Mark Christian , Jon Dibben , Owain Doull , Iain Paton , Daniel Patten , Andy Tennant and Michael Thompson were preparing for the Olympic track competitions To support the 2016 Summer Games in Rio. His contract with Sky ran until April 30, 2015. He contested his last UCI WorldTour race at Paris-Roubaix , where he started with ambitions to win, but only finished 18th. He first started for Team Wiggins on May 1, 2015 at the Tour de Yorkshire .

Return to the track and the hour record

On June 7, 2015, Bradley Wiggins set a new hour record over 54.526 km in front of 6,000 spectators at the Lee Valley Velodrome in London , which was built for the 2012 Olympics . At the 2015 European Railway Championships he won the team pursuit title with the British team .

In February 2016, Wiggins reported in an interview with the English newspaper The Telegraph that his return to the British rail team was largely due to the engagement of German trainer Heiko Salzwedel as British national trainer for the endurance disciplines: “Heiko is like Louis van Gaal or one of them these other experienced European managers. He has his philosophy and he adheres to it. "

In the same year Wiggins was nominated for the start at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ; it was his fifth participation in the Olympics. Together with Ed Clancy , Owain Doull and Steven Burke , he won the gold medal in the team pursuit.

His last race on the road was originally supposed to be the Abu Dhabi Tour in October 2016. However, Wiggins canceled the start there in order not to endanger his participation in the London Six Day , where he finished second with Cavendish. The two athletes then drove in the six-day race in Ghent . In December 2016, it was first announced that Wiggins' name was listed on the Great Britain Cycling Team Olympic Podium Program for 2017. On December 28th, however, his retirement from active sports was announced.

Rowing since 2017

In June 2017 Wiggins said that he did for the Olympic Games in 2020 in Tokyo in rowing would qualify. He made his debut in December of that year at the British Indoor Rowing Championships , but only finished in a disappointing 21st place. In September 2018, he stated that he had given up his ambitions in this direction. He doesn't have enough time to train enough.

Personal and professional

Bradley Wiggins is the son of Australian cyclist Gary Wiggins . His English wife Linda , Bradley's mother, returned to Great Britain with her children from Belgium after her husband left them. Bradley Wiggins was two years old at the time and had no contact with his father for 14 years. In September 2012, the former racing cyclist Maurice Burton said in an interview that Bradley Wiggins had been given the middle name Marc by his father so that his name would be abbreviated to BMW .

In 2008 Bradley Wiggins published his autobiography In Pursuit of Glory . In it he goes into his difficult relationship with his father Gary . He also reports that after the Athens Olympics in 2004 he became depressed and started drinking. However, the birth of his son Ben and the memory of how he was abandoned by his alcoholic father had brought him to his senses.

In 2019, Wiggins worked as an expert for the Eurosport channel on the Tour de France . In August of that year, he announced that he wanted to enroll in a degree in social work .

Awards

In 2012, Wiggins was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year . On December 29, 2012, he was named a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II .

Bradley Wiggins was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme .

Others

Bradley Wiggins has been riding with asymmetrical ("o.symetric") chainrings since 2009, through which the maximum strength of a cyclist's leg muscles should be better used.

Wiggins has been writing a column for the Observer and Guardian since 2004 .

Wiggins has asthma . That is why he was injected with the drug triamcinolone, which is on the doping list , before his tour starts in 2011 and 2012 as well as the 2013 Giro . He has a special approval (TUE) from the UCI world association for the agent .

Wiggins broke his leg while participating in The Jump sports show in February 2017.

In September 2017, Wiggins unveiled a memorial stone in Haswell's birthplace for the cyclist Tom Simpson , who would have turned 80 on September 30th. Wiggins: "He was my hero."

Sporting successes

Wiggins in the individual time trial at the 2012 Olympics
Bradley Wiggins in a track race (2007)
Bradley Wiggins on his way to his first Tour de France stage win in the individual time trial on stage 9 in 2012

Olympic medals

2000
bronze Team pursuit
2004
gold 4 km single pursuit
silver Team pursuit
bronze Madison
2008
gold 4 km single pursuit
gold Team pursuit
2012
gold Individual time trial
2016
gold Team pursuit

World championships

2000 UCI Track World Championships 2000
silver Team pursuit
2001 UCI Track World Championships 2001
silver Team pursuit
2002 UCI Track World Championships 2002
bronze Team pursuit
2003 UCI Track World Championships 2003
gold 4 km single pursuit
silver Team pursuit
2007 UCI Track World Championships 2007
gold 4 km single pursuit
gold Team pursuit
2008 UCI Track World Championships 2008
gold 4 km single pursuit
gold Team pursuit
goldMadison (with Mark Cavendish )
2011 UCI Road World Championships 2011
silver Individual time trial
2013 UCI Road World Championships 2013
silver Individual time trial
2014 UCI Road World Championships 2014
gold Individual time trial
2016 UCI Track World Championships 2016
gold Madison (with Mark Cavendish)
silver Team pursuit

Commonwealth Games

1998 Commonwealth Games 1998
silverTeam Pursuit (with Colin Sturgess , Jon Clay , Matt Illingworth and Rob Hayles )
2002 Commonwealth Games 2002
silver One's pursuit
silverTeam Pursuit (with Bryan Steel , Chris Newton , Paul Manning and Steve Cummings )
2014 Commonwealth Games 2014
silverTeam Pursuit (with Ed Clancy , Steven Burke and Andrew Tennant )

Successes in other races

2003
2005
2007
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF - 123 - - 134 71 40 - - DNF -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 123 DNF - 3 24 DNF 1 - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - 3 - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Bradley Wiggins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professional cyclist Wiggins operates on his collarbone on focus.de , accessed on July 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ Cycling: Bradley Wiggins wins the 2012 Tour de France at welt.de, July 22, 2012 (accessed on July 22, 2012).
  3. ↑ Wiggins wins Vélo d'Or 2012. Cyclist of the year. radsport-news.com, October 30, 2012, accessed October 30, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Bradley Wiggins planning to get back on track in pursuit of Rio glory on theaustralian.com.au v. 19th of August 2013
  5. ↑ Heiko Oberfeuchtner: Wiggins wants to get back on the track, distances himself from road cycling - “no loyalty”. Live Radsport.ch, July 25, 2014, accessed on July 25, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Wiggins plans record attempt. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 24, 2014, accessed on September 24, 2014 .
  7. ↑ More details emerge on Team Wiggins. cycling-news.com, December 18, 2014, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Bradley Wiggins introduces WIGGINS and wants to break the hour record in London. rad-net.de, January 8, 2015, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Wiggins speaks well of defeat. radsport-news.com, April 13, 2015, accessed July 16, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Wiggins starts the race with the number 1 at the home game. radsport-news.com, May 1, 2015, accessed May 16, 2015 .
  11. ↑ radsport-news.com - Wiggins sets a new hour record in London. In: radsport-news.com. January 21, 2015, accessed June 7, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Wiggins: Salzwedel is like Louis van Gaal. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Wiggins cancels start in Abu Dhabi and ends street career. In: rad-net.de. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Bradley Wiggins set to race in 2017. In: - Cycling News. December 1, 2016, accessed December 1, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Wiggins declares his resignation on Facebook. radsport-news.com, December 28, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016 .
  16. ^ Bradley Wiggins announces retirement from all forms of professional cycling. The Guardian , December 28, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Ben Tufnell: Bradley Wiggins falls short at Indoor Rowing Champs. In: cyclist.co.uk. December 9, 2017, accessed December 10, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Wiggins doesn't want to go to Tokyo as a rower. In: rad-net.de. September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  19. ↑ on telegraph.co.uk (English) Wiggins senior met Bradley's mother, Linda (17) while racing in London. They married and Bradley was born in Ghent
  20. ↑ Maurice Burton reveals the harsh truths about Bradley Wiggins' father - and why Bradley's middle name is Marc on telegraph.co.uk v. September 21, 2012
  21. ↑ Wiggins is studying social work: «Don't shock anything». In: rad-net.de. August 27, 2019, accessed August 27, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Wiggins voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year on radsport-news.com on December 17, 2012
  23. ↑ Queen Elizabeth knights Tour winner Wiggins on radsport-news.com on December 29, 2012
  24. ^ Author profile on the Guardian website, accessed July 23, 2012
  25. ↑ Kittel about Wiggins: "That's why we introduced the Paralympics". In: sueddeutsche.de. October 14, 2016, accessed March 9, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Wiggins breaks his leg on a reality sports show. In: radsport-news.com. February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .
  27. ^ Nigel Wynn: Sir Bradley Wiggins unveils Tom Simpson memorial in County Durham. In: Cycling Weekly. September 18, 2017, accessed September 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiggins, Bradley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiggins, Bradley Marc (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent , Belgium