Rider Profile
Elizabeth Deignan
Trek-Segafredo Women

Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2023 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2022 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2021 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2020 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2019 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2018 - Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam
- 2017 - Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam
- 2016 - Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
- 2015 - Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
- 2014 - Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
- 2012 - AA Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team
- 2011 - Garmin - Cervelo
- 2010 - Cervelo Test Team
- 2009 - Lotto - Belisol Ladiesteam
- 2009 - Team 100% Me
- 2008 - Team Halfords Bikehut
- 2007 - Global Racing Team
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
Related Articles

'I’m not at the top of my game yet' - Lizzie Deignan continues build at RideLondon
By James Moultrie published
News 'On paper, this race doesn’t suit me, but I was able to have an impact' says Trek-Segafredo rider after finishing third overall

Lizzie Deignan takes Trek-Segafredo reins as Balsamo crashes out of RideLondon
By James Moultrie published
New Briton takes third on stage 1, promises to race 'with nothing to lose' in WorldTour race

Lizzie Deignan returns to first race in Britain since 2021 at RideLondon Classique
By James Moultrie published
News 'RideLondon is probably the first race where I feel like I'll be able to be in the mix and able to be tactical rather than just surviving'

Deignan impressed by British talent but Women's Tour cancellation disappoints
By Kirsten Frattini published
News Olympic medallist and former world champion says 'under pressure' from new generation of talent coming through ranks

Tour de France, Worlds, Olympics, Monuments - The sky is the limit for Lizzie Deignan
By Kirsten Frattini published
Interview British talent speaks to the press on comeback targets, unknowns and inspirations

Lizzie Deignan confirms early comeback for La Flèche Wallonne
By Patrick Fletcher published
News 'Where did that six months go' says former world champion ahead of second post-pregnancy racing return

Lizzie Deignan may return early at Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège
By Kirsten Frattini published
News Ardennes Classics rosters have yet to be decided but Deignan prepared to start if needed, confirm Trek-Segafredo

Women’s Tour launches crowdfunding campaign to ensure 2023 race goes ahead
By Simone Giuliani published
News British event sets £100,000 goal to help plug sponsorship gap
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