Steve Cummings
Cummings wearing the race leader's jersey of the 2016 Tour of Britain
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| Full name | Stephen Philip Cummings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Steve-o | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19 March 1981 Clatterbridge, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom |
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| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Dimension Data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road and track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Rouleur | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| – | Birkenhead North End CC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2005–2006 | Landbouwkrediet–Colnago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Discovery Channel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Barloworld | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team Sky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | BMC Racing Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015– | MTN–Qhubeka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Philip "Steve" Cummings (born 19 March 1981) is an English racing cyclist for World Tour cycling team Team Dimension Data.
Cummings won the team pursuit at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He also took bronze in the individual pursuit at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens Cummings and the Great Britain team won the silver medal in the team pursuit and achieved a time of 3:59.866 in the heats.
In 1999, riding for Birkenhead North End CC as a junior, aged 17, Cummings won the Eddie Soens Memorial Road Race, a handicap race open to all categories. It remains the only time in 46 years that a junior has won. He went on to take the junior British National Road Race Championships that year.
In 2006 he rode for Landbouwkrediet–Colnago and came second in the Trofeo Laigueglia to Alessandro Ballan of Lampre–Fondital. In 2007 he switched to Discovery Channel before moving to Barloworld in 2008.
His first professional win was in 2008, stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria.
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