Steve Cummings

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Steve Cummings Road cycling
Cummings 2016
Cummings 2016
To person
Full name Stephen Phillip Cummings
Date of birth March 19, 1981
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Road / train
Driver type All-rounder / pursuer
height 189 cm
Racing weight 73 kg
End of career 2019
Most important successes
Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion - Team Pursuit
two stages Tour de France
a stage Vuelta a España

Stephen Phillip "Steve" Cummings (born March 19, 1981 in Wirral ) is a former British cyclist . After being a successful pursuer in track cycling , he developed into a successful all-rounder on the road .

Career

Steve Cummings was initially mainly active on the track. At the Olympic Games in Athens he won the silver medal in the team pursuit along with Bradley Wiggins , Rob Hayles and Paul Manning . A year later they managed to achieve the world title. At the Commonwealth Games 2006 he was again first with the team. In the single pursuit , he secured the bronze medal. Later at the World Cup in Bordeaux, the team finished second behind Australia.

On the road, Cummings first joined an international cycling team in 2005 , the Belgian Professional Continental Team Landbouwkrediet-Colnago . At the 2006 Commonwealth Games , he was narrowly beaten fourth. He received his first contract with a ProTeam in 2007 with Discovery Channel .

After winning the 13th stage of the Vuelta a España in 2012 , he achieved his greatest road success to date on the 14th stage of the 2015 Tour de France after Mende , after which he shortly ahead of the French Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet, who led the last climb overtook the target. He benefited from a tactical hesitation on the part of the two mountain specialists. At the Tour de France 2016 he repeated this success on the mountainous Tour de France 2016/7. Stage in which he pulled away from a breakaway group 27 kilometers from the finish. In 2017, Cummings became British double champions: he won both the time trial and the road race at the British road championships.

After Cummings was out for a long time in the 2019 season due to two falls in which he suffered a broken collarbone and then a vertebral fracture, he did not receive a follow-up contract from his team and ended his active career at the age of 38. During his career, Cummings made and completed 13 Grand Tours .

successes

2005

2006

2008
2009
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Individual Time Trial
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British champion - road racing
  • a stage of the Giro della Toscana

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 110 96 - 55 - - 149 - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 151 - 95 - - 86 140 141 - 129
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - 156 - - 102 - - 124 -

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cummings resigns at the age of 38. In: radsport-news.com. November 19, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Picture book victory for Cummings and Africa on Mandela Day. radsport-news.com, July 18, 2015, accessed July 23, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Fourth victory! Aldag sends Cummings forward in the Pyrenees. In: radsport-news.com. July 8, 2016, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cummings completes double as Deignan wins fourth title at 2017 HSBC UK | National Road Championships. britishcycling.org.uk, June 25, 2017, accessed September 4, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cummings, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cummings, Stephen Phillip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Weird