Lizzie Armitstead
Elizabeth " Lizzie " Mary Armitstead ( born December 18, 1988 in Beverley ) is a British racing driver who is successful on the track and road.
2005, aged 16 years, was Lizzie Armitstead World runner-up in the scratch in the junior competitions in Vienna. 2007 at the European Championships in Cottbus was she in this discipline European champion ( junior ) and second in the points race. At the European Championships ( junior ) 2008 Pruszków she won two titles in the scratch and in the team pursuit ( with Joanna Rowsell and Kathleen Colclough ) and a second place in the points race.
Your success at junior level could Lizzie Armitstead continue seamlessly with the elite. At the 2009 World Championships in Pruszków she placed herself right away right at the front: gold in the team pursuit ( with Wendy and Joanna Rowsell Houvenaghel ), silver in the scratch as well as bronze in the points race.
Also on the road Armitstead is successfully active: 2009 she was British road champion ( U23 ) and second in the elite. The silver medal was initially denied her, because in the opinion of the supreme judges of this competition dual start was against the rules. This decision was however reversed. In addition, Armitstead won the 2009 third place in the overall standings of the Tour de l' Ardeche. In 2011 she became a British road champion.
In the years 2010 and 2011 Lizzie Armitstead went for the Cervelo Test Team or its successor Garmin - Cervélo and moved to its dissolution in 2012, the Dutch cycling team AA Drink- leontien.nl.
At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, she won silver in the road race. 2014 Ronde van Drenthe, she won the.
Team
- 2007 Global Racing Team
- 2008 Halfords Bikehut Cycle Team
- 2009 Lotto Belisol Ladies Team
- 2010 Cervélo TestTeam
- 2011 Cervelo
- 2012 AA Drink- leontien.nl