Lizzie Deignan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Elizabeth Mary Armistead, Lizzie Armitstead, Elizabeth Mary "Lizzie" Deignan, Elizabeth Deignan, Elizabeth Armistead
English track and road racing cyclist
Key facts
- 2006
- Raleigh ERV
- 2007
- Global Racing Team
- 2008
- Team Halfords Bikehut
- 2009
- Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam
- 2012
- AA Drink–leontien.nl
- Full name
- Elizabeth Mary Deignan
- Nickname
- Lizzie, Queen Lizzie
- Born
- Elizabeth Mary Armitstead , ( 1988-12-18 ) 18 December 1988 (age 37) , Otley , West Yorkshire , England
- Height
- 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
- Weight
- 57 kg (126 lb)
- Current team
- Lidl–Trek
- Disciplines
- Road Track
- Role
- Retired
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 2008 2009
- 100% ME
- 2010 2011
- Cervélo TestTeam
- 2013 2018
- Boels–Dolmans
- 2019 2025
- Trek–Segafredo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Official name
- Elizabeth Deignan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Otley
- Spouse
- Philip Deignan
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2024 UCI Women's World Tour
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Member of team
- Lidl-Trek (women)
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Mass
- 57
- Image
- Lizzie Deignan - 2025 Tour of Britain Women (stage 3 - combativity).jpg
- Height
- 168
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- Lizzie Deignan
- date of birth
- 1988-12-18
- short name
- Elizabeth Deignan
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
- name in native language
- Lizzie Deignan
- birth name
- Elizabeth Mary Deignan
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Encyclopedic overview
Elizabeth Mary Deignan MBE (née Armitstead; born 18 December 1988) is an English track and road racing cyclist, who last rode professionally for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. She was the 2015 World road race champion. She is regarded as the best British female road cyclist of her generation, scoring a total of 43 UCI race wins.
Deignan is also the 2014 Commonwealth Games road race champion and a twice winner of the season-long UCI Women's Road World Cup, winning the overall competition in 2014 and the final edition in 2015. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Deignan won the silver medal in the road race. She has won the British National Road Race Championships four times, in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lizzie Deignan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.