Elizabeth Armitstead

Lizzie Deignan

Deignan in the rainbow jersey after winning the 2016 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Personal information
Full name	Elizabeth Mary Deignan
Born	(1988-12-18) 18 December 1988 (age 28) Otley, West Yorkshire, England
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb; 9.0 st)
Team information
Current team	Boels–Dolmans
Discipline	Road and Track
Amateur team(s)
2006	Raleigh ERV
2007	Global Racing Team
2008–2009	100% ME
Professional team(s)
2008	Team Halfords Bikehut
2009	Lotto-Belisol Ladies
2010–2011	Cervélo TestTeam
2012	AA Drink–leontien.nl
2013–	Boels–Dolmans
Major wins
Stage races The Women's Tour (2016) Ladies Tour of Qatar (2015) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (2015) World Road Race Championships Team Time Trial (2016) National Road Race Championships (2011, 2013, 2015) Ronde van Drenthe (2014) Trofeo Alfredo Binda (2015, 2016) The Philadelphia Cycling Classic (2015) GP de Plouay (2015) Strade Bianche (2016) Tour of Flanders (2016) Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2016) Boels Rental Hills Classic (2015, 2016) Other UCI Women's Road World Cup Overall (2014, 2015)
Medal record Road cycling Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2012 London Road Race World Championships 2015 Richmond Road race Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Road Race 2010 Delhi Road Race Representing Boels–Dolmans World Championships 2016 Doha Team time trial Track cycling Representing  Great Britain World Championships 2009 Pruszków Team pursuit 2009 Pruszków Scratch 2010 Ballerup Team pursuit 2010 Ballerup Omnium 2009 Pruszków Points race

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Other

Elizabeth Mary "Lizzie" Deignan (née Armitstead) (born 18 December 1988) is an English professional world champion track and road racing cyclist. She was the 2015 World road race champion and is, as of March 2017, the reigning Commonwealth road race champion. Deignan is also twice winner of the season-long UCI Women's Road World Cup, winning the overall competition in 2014 and the final edition in 2015. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Armitstead won the silver medal in the road race. She was won the British National Road Race Championships three times, in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

Prior to her road career Armitstead won a total of five medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2009 and 2010, including a gold medal in team pursuit in 2009 with Joanna Rowsell and Wendy Houvenaghel.

Armitstead was born in the market town of Otley in West Yorkshire, where she attended Prince Henry's Grammar School, a state comprehensive school. She took up cycling in 2004 after British Cycling's Olympic Talent Team visited the school. She is a graduate of British Cycling's Olympic Podium Programme. Armitstead has been a vegetarian since the age of ten.