Rider Profile

Elizabeth Deignan

Trek-Segafredo Women

Elizabeth Deignan

Personal Details:

Nationality Great Britain
Date of birth 18/12/1988

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Biography:

Elizabeth Deignan (née Armitstead), former road world champion and winner of the inaugural women's Paris-Roubaix, has been among the pro peloton's most successful riders since emerging as a road racing talent in the early 2010s.


Deignan, who hails from West Yorkshire, England, won a gold medal on the track in the team pursuit in 2009 and then gradually shifted her focus to road racing. She rode to a silver medal in the Olympic road race in 2012, a year in which she also won Gent-Wevelgem. The following season, the first of what would be six seasons with the Boels-Dolmans team, she took her first British national road title, having subsequently scored three more to make it a total of four in her career. Amid two decorated campaigns in 2014 and 2015, she was the women's World Cup's top-ranked rider and took the rainbow jersey in the elite women's road race in Richmond.


In 2018, Deignan took a hiatus from racing for the birth of her first child. She joined Trek-Segafredo and resumed competition in 2019, and stormed to victory in that year's OVO Energy Women's Tour. The following season, she took three WorldTour one-day wins at the GP de Plouay, La Course, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and then in 2021, she became the first ever winner of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes.


After spending 2022 away from racing amid the birth of her second child, Deignan is set to return to competing in the 2023 season.


Key Results 

1st UCI Women's Road World Cup 2014-15

1st UCI Road World Championships 2015
1st Commonwealth Games road race 2014
1st Ronde van Drenthe 2014
1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2015-16
1st The Philadelphia Cycling Classic 2015
1st GP de Plouay 2015, '17
1st Gent–Wevelgem 2012
1st National Road Race Champion 2011, '13, '15, '17
1st Omloop van het Hageland 2012, '14
1st Boels Rental Hills Classic 2015
1st Strade Bianchi 2016
1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2016
1st Tour of Flanders 2016

1st Ladies Tour of Qatar 2015
1st The Women's Tour 2016

2nd Olympic Games road road 2012
2nd Commonwealth Games road race 2010
2nd Amstel Gold Race 2017
2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine 2014, '17
2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2017
2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2014
2nd Tour of Flanders 2014

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