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UCI Road Cycling World Championships competitor Lizzie Deignan

UCI Road Cycling World Championships competitor Lizzie Deignan

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UCI Road Cycling World Championships competitor Lizzie Deignan

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  1. UCI Road Cycling World Championships competitor Lizzie Deignan Lizzie Deignan’s longevity is demonstrated by the fact that, despite being 32 years old and having spent ten years at the top of her game, the Otley superstar is still the main hope for Great Britain when the UCI Road World Championships 2021 women’s race gets underway this afternoon in Antwerp. Lizzie Deignan is one of British Cycling great success stories, rising through the ranks to become a formidable force in women’s cycling on both the track and, more famously, in road racing, where she was named world champion in 2015. The Yorkshire cyclist became one of the country’s most recognised athletes after being the first British athlete to win a medal – a silver-at the 2012 London Olympics.

  2. Lizzie Deignan also won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, two wins in the season-long UCI Women’s Road World Cup, and was the reigning world, Commonwealth, and national road champion into the last Olympic year of 2016. During the UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire in Cycling Team 2019, she rode excellently in front of home supporters as the race passed through her hometown of Otley. Biography A visit to Deignan’s school in Otley, Yorkshire, by British Cycling’s Apprentice programme in 2004 identified her talent, and at the comparatively mature age of 15, one of the sport’s most successful careers was begun.

  3. Initially, she excelled in circuit racing and on the track, winning gold in the 2007 UEC Under-23 European Track Championships scratch race, the first of several international triumphs following two prolific years at the national level. Injuries hampered her progress during the winter of 2007-08, but by the end of the year, Lizzie Deignan had proved her mettle on the track, winning double gold at the UEC Under-23 European Track Championships and an incredible seven gold medals in three UCI Track Cycling World Cup events in Manchester, Melbourne, and Copenhagen. At the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, she won the world championship in the team pursuit alongside Joanna Rowsell Shand and Wendy Houvenhagel, silver in the scratch after crashing late in the race, and bronze in the points race despite a seriously wounded hand. Deignan’s talent on the road, on the other hand, was beginning to emerge. She took part in Nicole Cooke’s gold medal ride at the UCI Road World Championships in 2008, and the following year, she won a stage of the Tour de l’Ardeche and the best young rider classification in the Giro d’Italia Femminile while riding for the Lotto-Belisol team. More golds in the team pursuit and scratch at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester in 2009-10, and silvers in the team pursuit and omnium at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Copenhagen, were won during the winter of 2009-10. By the summer of 2010, riding for the Cervelo Test Team Lizzie , Deignan had established himself as a major force on the world road racing stage, with a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, three stage wins at the Tour de l’Ardeche, and a creditable ninth place at the UCI Road World Championships in Geelong, Australia.

  4. Following that, Deignan’s focus would be on the road, with 2011 delivering her maiden national championship and, as she prepared for the 2012 Olympics, additional stage race victory at the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen and a seventh-place finish at the UCI Road World Championships. Riding with the AA Drink-Leontien.nl team, Lizzie Deignan planned her year around the Olympics, winning one-day events like the Omloop van het Hageland and Gent-Wevelgem in the early season. On the first weekend of racing, Lizzie Deignan made it into a four-rider break in rainy circumstances and finally won silver on the Mall, behind Marianne Vos, to earn the first of many British medals at the Games. Lizzie Deignan of the United Kingdom finishes 11th in the Women’s Road Race at the Fuji International Speedway on the second day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.

  5. Armitstead joined the Boels Dolmans Cycling Team for the post-Olympic year, which was marred by a hernia problem, but she still managed to win her second British road race title, beating fellow London Olympic medalists Laura Kenny and Dani King, and she performed well in stage races like the Route de France and the Boels Ladies Tour. The World Championships in Flanders 2021 are well started, and we’ve already seen some great action. The World Championships in Belgium are a celebration of all things cycling, from top time trials to junior sports.On Sunday (September 19), the elite men’s time trial was won by Filippo Ganna of Italy. On Monday, the under-23 TT and the elite women’s TT were held, with Denmark capturing gold in the U23 courtesy to Johan Price-Pejtersen, and Ellen van Dijk of the Netherlands claiming her second rainbow jersey in the women’s race. On Tuesday, the junior ladies and junior men competed for the coveted title of world champion.This year’s event also sees the reintroduction of a relatively new category, the mixed relay team time trial, in which teams of three men and three women from the same country compete against the clock. Nine years after winning silver in the Olympic road race and six years after capturing the world champion’s rainbow jersey in Richmond, USA, the Yorkshirewoman remains Britain’s greatest prospect of putting her arms back into that legendary garment. Today’s 157km race from Antwerp to Leuven is a punchy one, with 20 small rises, which might play into Lizzie Deignan’s hands given the character of the roads surrounding her Otley home.

  6. As she stated in The Yorkshire Post yesterday, she will not compromise her values and will ride to win. Top-10 finishes are meaningless — it’s victory or bust. She can either enlist the assistance of her squad or tackle it alone. Too frequently in the past, she has been allowed to dig her own furrow while the high-powered Dutch team has produced a slew of world champions, including Marianne Vos (2012, 2013), Chantal Blaak (2017), Anna van der Breggen (2018, 2020), and Annemiek van Vleuten (2019). Van Vleuten’s victory in Yorkshire two years ago was the result of an offensive launched from more than 100 kilometres away, a technique frequently used to great effect by the Dutch. If Lizzie Deignan is to be successful this time, a lone break from the start could be her best chance-a test of the legs, to be sure, but she has the desire to persevere. Anna Kiesenhofer, a little-known cyclist, won the Olympic road race in Tokyo with a long-distance charge. Deignan was left to rally the pursuing group but was unable to find enough assistance, an island she has been marooned on in previous world championships when Dutch riders went up the road and their team-mates purposefully delayed the pace. If Lizzie Deignan does not leave early, her teammates Anna Shackley, Alice Barnes, Anna Henderson, and Pfeiffer Georgi will have to work hard to put her in contention to win. But, at 32 and with few opportunities left, don’t rule out Lizzie Deignan charging up the road early

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