Philip Deignan
Philip Deignan (2012) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | September 7, 1983 |
nation | Ireland |
discipline | Street |
End of career | 2018 |
Most important successes | |
a stage Vuelta a España |
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Last updated: November 27, 2018 |
Philip Deignan, also Pilib Ó Duígeannáin (Gaelic) (born September 7, 1983 in Letterkenny , County Donegal ) is a former Irish cyclist .
Career
Philip Deignan initially drove for the then Professional Continental Team Ag2r Prévoyance from 2005 and won the Tour du Doubs one-day race there in his first season . With this team he took part in the Vuelta a España 2007 - his first Grand Tour - where he finished 71st overall. In 2008, Deignan competed for Ireland in the Beijing Summer Olympics and competed in and finished 80 in road race .
Deignan drove to the Cervélo TestTeam in 2009 and 2010 . For his new team he won the 18th stage of the Vuelta a España 2009 in Ávila in a two-man sprint ahead of Roman Kreuziger , with whom he was able to break away from a 16-man breakaway group on the last descent. At the end of the tour, he finished ninth in the overall classification, just under eleven minutes behind Alejandro Valverde .
After a year with Team RadioShack , he joined the United Healthcare Professional Cycling Team in 2012, for which he won the overall ranking of the US Tour of the Gila stage race in 2013 . In 2014 he switched to Team Sky , where he was considered a reliable helper and ended his active career after the 2018 season.
Private
In mid-September 2016, Philip Deignan married his racing driver colleague Lizzie Armitstead . Since the marriage, the 2009 world champion has started under her married name. Philip Deignan has been active as a trainer for Lizzie Deignan since the birth of their daughter in September 2018 and his subsequent resignation and looks after their daughter.
successes
2005
2009
- a stage Vuelta a España
- 2013
- Overall ranking Tour of the Gila
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | 79 | 56 | - | 47 | - | - | 43 | - | DNF | 37 | - |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Vuelta a España | 71 | - | 9 | DNF | - | - | - | 115 | - | - | - | - |
Teams
- 2005–2008: Ag2r Prévoyance / Ag2r La Mondiale
- 2009–2010: Cervélo TestTeam
- 2011: Team RadioShack
- 2012–2013: United Healthcare Pro Cycling Team
- 2014–2018: Team Sky
Web links
- Philip Deignan in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Philip Deignan in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Philip Deignan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deignan in top ten after runaway coup. In: radsport-news.com. September 17, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Sky professional Deignan gets off his bike. In: radsport-news.com. November 27, 2018, accessed November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Emily Chan: Lizzie Armitstead marries fellow racer Philip Deignan. In: dailymail.co.uk. September 17, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Edward Pickering: Family Affair . In: Procycling , German edition . August, 2019, p. 30th ff .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Deignan, Philip |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duígeannáin, Pilib Ó (Gaelic name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Letterkenny , County Donegal |