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Lizzie Deignan
>>>Lizzie Deignan profile and results
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 18/12/1988
From: Otley, Yorkshire
Height: 1.68m
Weight: 57kg
Team: Boel-Dolmans
Twitter: @lizziedeignan
Lizzie Deignan (née Armitstead) has established herself as the dominant rider on the international women’s road racing scene, having won the 2014 and 2015 UCI Women’s World Cup series and taken the 2015 road race World Championship.
All this after a difficult season in 2013 when the British rider struggled to focus after the London Olympics where she won silver in the road race behind Marianne Vos.
Having graduated through the British Cycling system, Deignan turned her back on international track racing after 2009 track world championships. She was part of the team that won gold in the women’s team pursuit and had won several gold medals at World Cups that year.
Her heart however was in road racing, and as soon as she began to focus on that with the Cervelo Test Team in 2010, she quickly starting amassing a strong list of results.
Major results: 2016 Tour of Flanders | 2015 road world champion | 2015 World Cup | 2014 World Cup | 2014 Ronde van Drenthe | 2012 Ghent Wevelgem | 2011 British title | 2009 track world champion
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‘I felt invincible': British riders reflect on racing World Championships on home roads
“I’m just so grateful to everybody that’s been a part of the championships,” said Lizzie Deignan, minutes after crossing the Harrogate finish line 10 miles away from her hometown.
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Lizzie Deignan proud of efforts despite falling short in chase for rainbow jersey
Deignan said she didn't want to settle for silver and bronze once Annemiek van Vleuten went clear
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‘It’s too soon to announce a retirement’: Lizzie Deignan remains focused on Yorkshire 2019 World Championships and Olympic Games
Lizzie Deignan remains focused on her ambition to win a second rainbow jersey at the Yorkshire 2019 World Championships, saying “it’s too early to announce a retirement.”
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‘I thought it was a weird sport’: Lizzie Deignan on how she started cycling on ‘Home Roads’ podcast
Lizzie Deignan as offered an honest insight into her home life, being scouted from school, and how she spent her year away from racing in the ‘Home Roads’ podcast.
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Lizzie Deignan: 'I feel responsible to prove you can be both a pro rider and a mother'
The British former world champion will line up on home roads at the Yorkshire Worlds
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British Cycling reveal women’s squads for elite road race and time trials at Yorkshire 2019 World Championships
British Cycling have revealed the riders contesting the elite women’s road race and time trials at the Yorkshire 2019 World Championships later this month.
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Lizzie Deignan takes Women's Tour GC lead after stage five victory
Victory is the first for the former world champion since returning to the peloton after maternity leave
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Lizzie Deignan to miss British National Championships after intensive spring campaign
The former national champion says she needs rest after returning to racing this spring
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'I was just so empty': Lizzie Deignan left 'physically on the limit' in punishing Tour de Yorkshire finale
Trek rider tried to follow attacks in the final stage of the women's Tour de Yorkshire, but eventually finished down in 28th place
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Lizzie Deignan: 'I’m finding it boring that I can’t attack like I used to'
Former world champion says her head is still ahead of her legs as she continues her return to racing
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Lizzie Deignan to return to racing at Amstel Gold Race
The former world champion will take on the Ardennes Classics before heading to the Tour de Yorkshire
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Lizzie Deignan: 'Yorkshire Worlds the biggest, unrivalled motivation'
A new baby, a new team, and with the Worlds being held on home turf, it’s time for Lizzie Deignan to shine again
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‘I didn’t take the decision to change teams lightly’: Lizzie Deignan looks to 2019 after birth of daughter
Former world champion Lizzie Deignan plans to return to training this week, less than two months after giving birth.
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New Trek women's team officially announced with Lizzie Deignan revealed as star signing
Lizzie Deignan will ride for the new Trek Factory Racing team in 2019, saying that Trek's attitude towards her pregnancy was key in her decision.
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Trek-Segafredo to launch women’s team with Lizzie Deignan among a strong roster
Long-standing men's WorldTour team Trek-Segafredo are set to launch a women's team for 2019
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Former world champion Lizzie Deignan announces pregnancy
Lizzie Deignan and her husband Philip are due to have their first child in September
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Lizzie Deignan rethinking retirement plans
A new focus may override British rider Lizzie Deignan's original intention to bow out after the 2019 World Champs
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Lizzie Deignan eyeing Amstel Gold win en route to Worlds in 2018
Ardennes Classics central to Brit's gameplan next year
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Lizzie Deignan hails 'incredible' Great Britain women's team performance at World Champs
Although Great Britain's riders may have missed out on a podium spot in the elite women's road race in Norway, they had someone in every move and helped shape the race
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Lizzie Deignan to relish being a 'total unknown' at the World Championships
Former world champ will go into the race after have surgery to remove her appendix
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Lizzie Deignan has appendix removed: World Championships in doubt
British champion Lizzie Deignan says she will be taking the rest of the season 'day by day' after having appendix removed
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Lizzie Deignan takes her first WorldTour victory of season at GP Plouay
British champion Lizzie Deignan wins GP Plouay in France ahead of Pauline Ferrand-Prevot
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Lizzie Deignan ‘surprised’ by great form as she rides to second place on Col d’Izoard at La Course
"I think I overestimated the climb, I had not done a recon and I didn’t find it as hard as the nightmares I had about it."
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Annemiek Van Vleuten wins stage one of La Course atop Col d'Izoard; Deignan second
British champion Lizzie Deignan sets relentless pace up the Col d'Izoard in the first of two stages in La Course
