Peter Kennaugh

Peter Kennaugh
	Peter Kennaugh at the Tour de Romandie 2010
To person
Date of birth	15th June 1989 (age 31)
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
End of career	2019
Team (s)
2010–2017 ; 2018–2019	Team Sky ; Bora-hansgrohe
Most important successes
	2012 Olympic Champion - Team Pursuit 2012 World Champion - Team Pursuit
	Last updated: February 26, 2020

Peter Kennaugh (born June 15, 1989 in Douglas , Isle of Man ) is a British track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2006 Peter Kennaugh was Junior World Champion in scratch and won bronze in the team pursuit with the British junior four-man . In the following year he won two European Championship titles in the team pursuit, in the juniors and in the U23 class. In 2008 he was British champion in two-man team driving with Mark Cavendish ; this national track title was followed by others in the years to come. In 2007 (juniors) and 2008 (U23) he was British road racing champion. In 2008 he won the Italian one-day races Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli and Gran Premio Capodarco and in 2009 a stage of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia ( Baby Giro ).

In 2010, Kennaugh got a contract with Team Sky . Although he started increasingly in road races in the following years, he continued to be successful on the track until 2014. In 2011 he became European team pursuit champion with Steven Burke , Ed Clancy and Geraint Thomas . The following year, the British four-man team with Kennaugh, Burke, Clancy, Andrew Tennant and Thomas won the world title and then the Olympic victory in London (with Burke, Clancy and Thomas). At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , he won silver in the points race .

Peter Kennaugh then concentrated on the road. In 2014 he won the overall ratings of the Settimana Internazionale and the Tour of Austria . 2015 he was British champion in the road race, won the 2016 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the Team Sky , the team time trial of the Vuelta a España . In 2017, after 2015, he won a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné for the second time .

For the 2018 season, Kennaugh switched to the Bora-hansgrohe team , where he said he felt “much happier” than he had last at Sky. After the Australian races in January 2018, however, he suffered a low: “I felt really low, training wasn't going well, I felt terrible on the bike, and it just got to the point where each day in training it felt so bad that I just didn't want to ride my bike. ”(“ I was really depressed, the training didn't go well, I felt terrible on the bike, and it went so far that I felt so bad while training that I did no longer wanted to ride my bike. ”) In July he won the Grand Prix Pino Cerami out of an 11-strong breakaway group , but was not used at the Vuelta .

On April 5, 2019, 29-year-old Kennaugh announced his temporary withdrawal from competitive cycling due to mental health problems.

successes

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2006

European Champions - Team Pursuit (Juniors) (with Jonathan Bellis , Steven Burke and Adam Blythe )
World Champion - Scratch (Juniors)

2007

European Champions - Team Pursuit (Juniors) (with Adam Blythe , Mark McNally and Luke Rowe )
European Champion - Team Pursuit (U23) (with Jonathan Bellis , Steven Burke and Ben Swift )
British Champion - Single Pursuit (Juniors)
British Champion - Points Race (Juniors)

2008

British Champion - Madison (with Mark Cavendish )
European Champion - Team Pursuit (U23) with ( Steven Burke , Mark McNally and Andrew Tennant )

2009

World Cup in Copenhagen - Team Pursuit (with Steven Burke , Ed Clancy and Chris Newton )
British Champion - Madison (with Mark Christian )

2010

British champion - one's pursuit
British champion - Scratch

2011

British champion - points race
British Champion - Madison (with Luke Rowe )
European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Steven Burke , Ed Clancy and Geraint Thomas )