List of British cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification; List of Dutch cyclists; Last edited on 5 April 2020, at 21:20. Each of us on the team has our own opinion as to who should be given that particular title, so we figured the only way to get a fair answer to that question was to open it up to a public vote and base the whole thing on popularity rather than simply records broken or gongs won.World Road Race Champion - 2008Sign up for BikesEtc subscription here.World Track Champion (Individual Pursuit) - 1959, 1969, 1962, 1963, 1966Sign up to the Cyclist newsletter here.Lizzie Armitstead started out as a track cyclist. The sprinter is now hoping to add Olympic gold to his achievements in Rio this year.Tour de France winner - 2013, 2015With a World Championship, an Olympic medal and two Monument victories to his name, Tom Simpson was one of Britain’s most decorated cyclists. Great Britain Cycling Team launches the search for a female tandem rider to target Tokyo Paralympic success Following the retirement of the reigning Paralympic champion Sophie Thornhill last week, tandem pilot Helen Scott has today announced that the Great Britain Cycling Team is in the hunt for a tandem ‘stoker’ (the blind or visually impaired rider at the back of the tandem). Since then he has gone on to win the Tour de France twice, becoming the first Brit to ever do so in the process. In 1998, aged 30, he was diagnosed with osteopenia. World Road Race Champion - 1965Olympic Gold (Individual Pursuit) - 1992Olympic Bronze (Team Pursuit) - 1956Chris Froome and Egan Bernal restart season at lowkey French stage race this weekendNew Classic Leather shoes mix modern with vintage in all the right waysEvery Brit’s favourite sprinter, the Manx Missile is as affable as he is competitive. It wasn’t until 1969 that a man beat the record and no woman has bettered it to this day.First onto the podium is a man who is no stranger to podiums. Well imagine holding the Road Time Trials Council’s “British Best All-Rounder” for a whopping 25 years. It is also a Summer Paralympic sport. When she won the Giro d’Italia Femminile in 2004 aged just 21, she was not only the race’s youngest-ever winner but also the first British cyclist, male or female, to win a Grand Tour. Rather than take advantage, however, he had his team slow up and wait for the peloton to form again. We take a look at the...We take a look at the Aldi mountain biking range which will hit the shops on 12 April.Please enter your email so we can keep you updated with news, features and the latest offers. But the main reason you seem to have voted him Britain’s greatest cyclist is because he did what no other British male rider had managed in 112 years of trying – he won the Tour de France. The condition could have been tackled with testosterone injections, but the UCI, which was embroiled in the Festina doping scandal, refused Boardman an exemption on medical grounds. Photo: Profimedia.cz) 6. This is an incomplete list of professional racing cyclists, sorted alphabetically by decade in which they won their first major race. If you are not interested you can unsubscribe at any time. Cycling is one of the most physiologically demanding sports and cyclists need endurance, speed, technique and skills to excel in this field. Every minute detail had to be just perfect, and it was an obsession that led him to glory many times. Cav is one of the most prolific riders of his generation, and is third on the all-time list when it comes to number of stage victories in the Tour de France, with 26 to his name (just two behind Bernard Hinault). As with all champions, his mettle has been tested both on the bike and off the bike with spectators throwing urine at him or shouting doping allegations. She took silver at London 2012, but is bound to want to go one better in Rio this year, and with the stonking start to the year she’s had, including a massive win at the Tour of Flanders, we’re backing her all the way.World Road Race Champion - 1960 & 1967So, using the power of social media we set about asking the readers who you most admire from Britain’s proud tradition of cycling greats.