Roger Hammond

Roger Hammond

Roger Hammond at Tour of Britain 2016.
To person
Full name	Roger Edward Hammond
Date of birth	January 30, 1974
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Street / Cross
To the team
Current team	NTT Pro Cycling
function	Sports director
Team (s)
1998–1999 2000 2001–2003 2004 2005–2006 2007–2008 2009–2010 2011	Palmans-Ideal Collstrop Palmans-Collstrop MrBookmaker.com Discovery Channel Team Columbia Cervélo TestTeam Team Garmin-Cervélo
Most important successes
two stages Tour of Britain 10-time British champion
Team (s) as sporting director
2013–2015 2016	Madison Genesis Team Dimension Data
Last updated: September 27, 2016

Roger Edward Hammond (born January 30, 1974 in Harlington ) is a former British cyclist and later sports director . As an active person he was active in cyclocross and road cycling .

Roger Hammond became Junior World Champion in cyclo-cross racing in 1992 . Between 1994 and 2008 he was eight times British champion in this discipline.

In 1998 Hammond got his first contract with an international cycling team , the Belgian team Palmans-Ideal . He developed into a specialist in classic one-day races . In 2003 and 2004 he was the first British road racing champion. Also in 2004 he finished third at Paris-Roubaix , and in the road race at the Olympic Games in Athens he came seventh. In 2005 and 2006 he won a stage of the Tour of Britain and in 2009 a stage of the Tour of Qatar . In 2007 he finished second at Gent – ​​Wevelgem and seventh at Paris-Roubaix. Hammond also started road racing at the 2008 Olympics , but did not finish.

In 2012 Hammond ended his active cycling career.

After his career as a racing cyclist, Hammond initially worked as the Sports Director of the British Continental Team Madison Genesis , before moving to the UCI WorldTeam Dimension Data in 2016 and leading Mark Cavendish to four stage wins at the 2016 Tour de France .

successes

Street

2003

• British champion - road racing

2004

• British champion - road racing

2005

• one stage Tour of Britain

2006

• one stage Tour of Britain

2009

• one stage Tour of Qatar

Cyclo-cross racing

1992 Junior world champion 1994 British champion 2000 British champion 2001 British champion 2002 British champion

2003 British champion 2004 British champion 2006 British champion 2008 British champion

Web links

• Roger Hammond in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Roger Hammond in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timothy John: Pro cyclists: Roger Hammond Interview. roadcyclinguk.com, November 26, 2012, accessed December 25, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Hammond as sports director for Dimension Data, Zangerle for Leopard. In: radsport-news.com. November 18, 2015, accessed November 18, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Alasdair Fotheringham: New Dimensions . In: Procycling , German edition . December, 2016, p. 62 ff .