Rider Profile
Elizabeth Deignan
Lidl-Trek Women
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Lidl-Trek Women
- 2023 - Lidl-Trek 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 'Lizzie' 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, born December 18, 1988 in 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 won a silver medal in the Olympic Games road race in 2012, a year in which she also won Gent-Wevelgem.
The following season was her first of six seasons with the Boels-Dolmans team and 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 top-ranked rider on the World Cup, topped by securing the rainbow jersey in the elite women's road race in Richmond in 2015.
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 had a fourth at La Flèche Wallonne and sixth in the road race at Worlds. 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 returned to competition for the 2023 season, stepping on the podium with third overall at the RideLondon Classique and placing sixth in the road race at the World Championships in Scotland.
Key Results
2023
🥈 One stage at RideLondon Classique
🥉 One stage and GC at RideLondon Classique
2021
🥇 Paris-Roubaix Femmes
🥇 Mountains classification, points classification and GC at Tour de Suisse Women
🥈 One stage at Giro d’Italia Donne
2020
🥇 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes
🥇 La Course by Le Tour de France
🥇 GP de Plouay
🥈 One stage at Giro d’Italia Donne
2019
🥇 One stage, points classification and GC at Women’s Tour
🥉 One stage at Boels Ladies Tour
2017
🥇 GP de Plouay
🥇 British National Championships road race
🥈 Amstel Gold Race
🥈 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
🥈 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
2016
🥇 Trofeo Alfredo Binda
🥇 Strade Bianche
🥇 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
🥇 Tour of Flanders
2015
🥇 World Championships elite women’s road race
🥇 GP de Plouay
🥇 Trofeo Alfredo Binda
🥇 Philadelphia Cycling Classic
🥇 British National Championships road race
2014
🥇 Ronde van Drenthe
🥇 Commonwealth Games road race
🥇 Omloop van het Hageland
🥈 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
🥈 Tour of Flanders
🥈 Trofeo Alfredo Binda
2013
🥇 British National Championships road race
2012
🥇 Gent-Wevelgem
🥈 Olympic Games road race
Related Articles
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By Simone Giuliani published
News ‘I’ve put the work in and I am pretty optimistic about being able to win again,’ says Deignan ahead of 2024 season start at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad – Analysing the contenders
By Kirsten Frattini, Daniel Ostanek published
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By Daniel Ostanek published
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'A whole different ball game' - Teutenberg sculpts Lidl-Trek future with young talent
By Dan Challis published
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'It's not good enough' - Lizzie Deignan critical of Giro d'Italia Donne organisation
By Kirsten Frattini published
News 'I'm pleased that the race is still on and the future of it is in different hands next season' says Lidl-Trek rider
'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
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New Briton takes third on stage 1, promises to race 'with nothing to lose' in WorldTour race
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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'
Blogs
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Nathan Haas blog: We need to talk about the Unbound mud pit
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Ellen van Dijk - Leading by example
'I have the chance to show the world how normal it should be to perform at a top level as a mother' -
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