Lizzie Deignan

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Lizzie Deignan Road cycling
Lizzie Deignan (2016)
Lizzie Deignan (2016)
To person
Full name Elizabeth Mary Deignan
Date of birth December 18, 1988
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Road / train
Driver type Endurance (train)
To the team
Current team Trek-Segafredo
function driver
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2016 World Champion - team time trial
2015 World Champion - road race
UCI track world championships
2009 World Champion - team pursuit
UCI Women's World Cup
2014, 2015 Union-Cycliste-Internationale-Logo.svg - overall individual ranking
Last updated: November 16, 2018

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Mary Deignan , b. Armitstead , (born December 18, 1988 in Beverley ) is a British cyclist who is successful on track and road .

biography

Athletic career

Lizzie Armitstead in the London 2012 Olympics Individual Time Trial

In 2005, at the age of 16, Lizzie Armitstead became vice world champion in scratch at the junior competitions in Vienna . In 2007, at the U23 European Championship in Cottbus , she was European champion in this discipline and second in the points race. At the U23 European Championship in Pruszków in 2008 , she won two titles, in the scratch and in the team pursuit (with Joanna Rowsell and Katie Colclough ) and a second place in the points race .

Lizzie Armitstead was able to continue her successes at the junior level with the elite. At the 2009 World Championships in Pruszków , she placed right at the front: Gold in the team pursuit (with Wendy Houvenaghel and Joanna Rowsell), silver in the scratch and bronze in the points race.

Armitstead is also successful on the road: in 2009 she was British Road Champion (U23) and second in the elite. The silver medal was initially withdrawn from her because, in the opinion of the chief judge, this double start was illegal. However, this decision was reversed. In addition, Armitstead took third place in the overall ranking of the Tour de l'Ardeche in 2009 . In 2011 she became British road champion.

In 2010 and 2011 Lizzie Armitstead drove for the Cervelo Test Team or its successor Garmin-Cervélo , after which it was dissolved in 2012 and switched to the Dutch cycling team AA Drink-leontien.nl and the following year to the Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam .

She won silver in road racing at the 2012 London Olympics . In 2014 she won the Ronde van Drenthe . That same year she decided the road race in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after itself in 2010 had won the silver medal. In 2014 and 2015 , Armistead won the overall ranking of the Cycling World Cup .

In 2016 Lizzie Armitstead was nominated to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished fifth in the street race. In the same year she became world champion in the team time trial together with the Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam and won the team time trial at the Holland Ladies Tour . She also won the British The Women's Tour .

At the end of August 2017, Lizzie Deignan, who had had a strong season up to then, started the Boels Rental Ladies Tour . After the second stage she was in tenth place, but then had to be admitted to a hospital to have her appendix removed. This jeopardized their participation in the road world championships in Bergen, Norway . A few days before the start of the world championships, it was announced that she would start captain of the British women's team in Bergen. She finished 42nd in the road race. Then she took a break from racing.

In September 2018 Deignan had a daughter. In April 2019, she started the Amstel Gold Race for the first time after her pregnancy . In the same year she won the overall ranking of the Women's Tour .

Missed doping tests

A few days before the start of the 2016 Olympic Games, it became known that Armitstead had missed three tests by the British anti-doping agency UKAD the year before and should therefore have been banned for four years. However, the International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) dropped the proceedings on the grounds that UKAD had not tried to reach Armitstead with sufficient rigor.

This decision by the CAS met with a lack of understanding in cycling circles, but also in the British media. Former rower Zac Purchase was quoted in the Independent : "Imagine what we would be saying if she was Russian." ("Imagine what we would say if she were Russian.") Journalist Ian Herbert wrote from Rio: " Armitstead should not be here. "(" Armitstead should not be here. ") The Italian driver Valentina Scandolara felt reminded of Orwell's animal farm :" All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. " Animals are the same, but some animals are more alike than others. ")

Private

In mid-September 2016, Lizzie Armitstead married her racing driver colleague Philip Deignan and has since competed under her married name. In March 2018, she announced that she was expecting her first child but plans to return to the sport in 2019. The child, a girl, was born in September 2018. Philip Deignan then ended his active career, has been coaching Lizzie Deignan ever since and looks after their daughter.

successes

Street

2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom British Championship - Road Racing
2014
2015
2016
2017
2019
  • Overall classification, one stage and points classification Women's Tour
2020

train

2005
  • silver Junior World Championship - Scratch
2007
  • European champion European Championship (U23) - Scratch
  • silver European Championship (U23) - points race
2008
2009
2010
2011

Teams

Lizzie Deignan at the 2016 Boels Rental Hills Classic

Web links

Commons : Lizzie Deignan  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Britishcycling.org.uk: "2009 National Women's Road Race Champs" ( Memento from January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 9, 2010 (English)
  2. ↑ Lizzie Armitstead and Emma Pooley in England one-two at Glasgow 2014. The Guardian, August 3, 2014, accessed August 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Armitstead wins the overall World Cup with victory in Plouay. In: rad-net.de. August 29, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015 .
  4. ^ World Championships at risk for Deignan after appendix surgery. In: Cycling News. August 31, 2017, accessed September 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Chris Froome to represent GB in time trial at world championships, while Lizzie Deignan will lead women in road race. In: telegraph.co.uk. September 12, 2017, accessed September 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Deignan returns to the peloton after a pregnancy break. In: rad-net.de. April 10, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Olympic participation for world champion Armitstead after discontinued doping procedure certain. In: rad-net.de. August 2, 2016, accessed August 2, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Armitstead is allowed to start in Rio despite three missed tests. In: radsport-news.com. August 20, 2015, accessed August 2, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Rio Olympics 2016: Lizzie Armitstead hits back at 'incredibly painful' comments about missed doping tests. In: telegraph.co.uk. August 3, 2016, accessed August 4, 2016 .
  10. ^ Ian Herbert: Lizzie Armitstead doesn't deserve to compete in the Rio Olympics. In: independent.co.uk. August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
  11. ↑ radsport-news.com - Armitstead case: Why are rules made at all? In: radsport-news.com. August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Emily Chan: Lizzie Armitstead marries fellow racer Philip Deignan. In: dailymail.co.uk. September 17, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2016 .
  13. ^ Owen Rogers: Former world champion Lizzie Deignan announces pregnancy. In: Cycling Weekly. March 14, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Olympic cyclist announces birth. In: bbc.com. September 24, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Edward Pickering: Family Affair . In: Procycling , German edition . August, 2019, p. 30th ff .
personal data
SURNAME Deignan, Lizzie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armitstead, Elizabeth; Armitstead, Elizabeth Mary (full name and maiden name); Armitstead, Lizzie Mary (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverley