Lucy Garner

Lucy Garner
Garner racing in the Oxford round of the 2012 Halfords Tour Series
Personal information
Full name Lucy Garner
Born (1994-09-20) 20 September 1994
Leicester, England[1]
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[1][2]
Team information
Current team Wiggle High5
Discipline Road and Track
Role Rider
Amateur team(s)
2011–2012 Node4 Pro Cycling
Professional team(s)
2013–2015 Team Argos-Shimano
2016– Wiggle High5

Lucy Garner (born 20 September 1994) is a British racing cyclist. She races professionally with Wiggle High5 and is a double junior world road race champion.

Early life and amateur career

Garner grew up in Cosby, Leicestershire. Her first cycling club was the Leicestershire Road Club.[3] Competing with them from 2004 to 2012, she won many National Awards from both the British Schools Cycling Association and British Cycling. She has a sister, Grace, who is two years younger than her and also a racing cyclist.[4] She remained in full-time education until 2012, when she left Countesthorpe Community College having completed her AS-levels.[5]

Garner won her first junior world title at the 2011 road world championships in Copenhagen. She was part of a late six-woman breakaway from the peloton and won the race comfortably in a sprint for the line.[6] A year later, she retained her title in a bunch sprint finish of 19 riders at the championships in Valkenburg, Netherlands,[7] having had a lead-out from Elinor Barker.

Professional career

Garner signed a professional contract with UCI Women's Team Team Argos-Shimano in October 2012,[8][9] turning professional at the start of the 2013 season.[10][11] In May 2013, she claimed her first professional victory on the opening stage of the Tour of Chongming Island in Shanghai, China.[12] In September 2015 Garner announced she would be riding for Wiggle High5 in 2016.[13]

Palmarès

Source:[14]

2018
1st Mountains classification Tour of Chongming Island

References

  1. 1 2 "The Node4 Pro Cycling Ladies Team". Node4 Pro Cycling. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Richardson, Simon (6 December 2011). "Lucy Garner: Rider Profile". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media.
  3. ↑ "Cycling: Lucy Garner joins 'dream team'". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Ashenden, Mark (2 August 2016). "Cycling sisters Lucy and Grace Garner went head-to-head in RideLondon Classique". skysports.com. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Myatt, Brian (October 2012). "Message from the Principal" (PDF). Countesthorpe Community College Connect.
  6. ↑ "UCI Road Cycling World Championships 2011: Great Britain's Lucy Garner wins gold medal in junior road race". Daily Telegraoh. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Britain's Lucy Garner retains junior world road race title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Cycling: Lucy Garner joins 'dream team'". Leicester Mercury. 11 October 2012.
  9. ↑ Atkins, Ben (9 October 2012). "Lucy Garner launches pro career at Argos-Shimano in 2013". VeloNation.
  10. ↑ "Lucy Garner signs professional deal with Argos-Shimano". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  11. ↑ Been, Jose. "Double junior world champion Lucy Garner on turning senior – 'I have to start all over again". Velo Nation. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  12. ↑ Bull, Nick (8 May 2013). "Lucy Garner takes first professional victory at the Tour of Chongming Island". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "Lucy Garner Joins Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling For Two Years | Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling". wigglehonda.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  14. ↑ Lucy Garner at Cycling Archives. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
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