Lizzie Armitstead turns super-domestique as Bujak wins GP Plouay
Lizzie Armitstead plays domestique to teammate Megan Guarnier at the GP Plouay, the penultimate race on the Women's WorldTour calendar
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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Lizzie Armitstead back in action in the Women's WorldTour for first time since Rio (report)
Armitstead was among several Brits in the Crescent Vårgårda road race, including national champion Hannah Barnes and Dani King
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Why hasn't Great Britain won more Rio Olympic cycling medals yet?
Great Britain have just one medal from four cycling events at Rio 2016. What went wrong?
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Mark Cavendish: Lizzie Armitstead absolutely at fault for whereabouts failures
Mark Cavendish says he doesn't believe Lizzie Armitstead doped, but says she could have done more to 'prevent the chaos she's in'
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Five talking points from the Olympic road races
Here's what got us talking in the men's and women's road races at the Rio 2016 Olympics
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Lizzie Armitstead 'proud' of Olympic road race efforts despite falling short of gold
Lizzie Armitstead managed to take fifth place after losing touch with the race leaders on the race's final climb on the Vista Chinesa circuit
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Anna van der Breggen wins Rio 2016 Olympics women's road race; Lizzie Armitstead fifth
Britain's Lizzie Armitstead keeps in the thick of the action in the women's road race but gets distanced over final climb as Dutchwoman Anna van der Breggen takes gold
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Six defining moments from the Rio Olympics women's road race (video)
We cast an eye back over the six defining moments of the women's road race in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
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How did Botox help Pauline Ferrand-Prévot recover from injury in time for the Olympics?
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot used injections of botulinum toxin to treat problems with her sciatic nerve in her hip
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Lizzie Armitstead: 'I'll have to accept that people will doubt me forever'
World champion Lizzie Armitstead says she's struggling to come to terms with the ordeal of the last week's news about her Whereabouts Failures
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Boels-Dolmans team come out in support of Lizzie Armitstead over missed tests case
Lizzie Armitstead's team say they 'trust completely there was no intentional wrongdoing' on her part
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Lizzie Armitstead writes personal statement addressing 'Whereabouts Failures'
Lizzie Armitstead writes her own statement to try and clarify her side of the story after she was cleared of missing three out-of-competition doping tests
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Lizzie Armitstead will ride in Rio... but unanswered questions remain
With no offence having been committed, we may never learn every detail surrounding Lizzie Armitstead's missed doping tests
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Lizzie Armitstead didn't challenge missed doping test at the time, UKAD argues
UK Anti-Doping chief Nicole Sapstead says Lizzie Armitstead could have challenged her first missed doping test when it happened, only when the case came to court
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Watch: Olympic road race and time trial preview
Britain could continue its dominance of Olympic cycling in Rio de Janeiro in August, with genuine medal opportunities in the road races and time trials
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How did Lizzie Armitstead miss three anti-doping tests? 'Whereabouts' system explained
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Lizzie Armitstead cleared for Rio Olympics after UK Anti-Doping charge for missed tests
Lizzie Armitstead missed three out-of-competition tests in a 12-month period, but was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport due to an 'administrative error' by a UK Anti-Doping official
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Lizzie Armitstead pulls out of National Championships road race
World champion Lizzie Armitstead withdraws from the National Championships road race in Stockton-on-Tees with a reported illness
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Lizzie Armitstead wraps-up overall win at the Aviva Women's Tour
Lizzie Armitstead finished safely with the bunch on the final stage, which was enough to seal the overall win at the Aviva Women's Tour
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Marianne Vos moves closer to Lizzie Armitstead's lead in Women's Tour after stage four win
Dutchwoman Marianne Vos sprints ahead of the pack to win stage four of the 2016 Aviva Women's Tour in Stoke-on-Trent
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Lizzie Armitstead powers to victory on Women's Tour stage three
The world champion won from a group of four riders to take the overall lead in the race
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Pro Bike: Lizzie Armitstead's Specialized Amira
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Mark Cavendish and Lizzie Armitstead head stellar fields for National Championships races
Mark Cavendish will battle the likes of Luke Rowe and Ben Swift at the National Championships on June 26, with Lizzie Armitstead set to defend her title in Stockton
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Tweets of the week: Sam Bewley, Luke Rowe, Lizzie Armitstead and more
Here are our top picked tweets from the last week in the world of cycling
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Lizzie Armitstead ends retirement speculation with contract renewal
The world champion's Boels-Dolmans team announced a new two-year contract that will see Armitstead ride beyond the Olympic Games
