1. Lizzie Deignan is 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.
31 Facts About Lizzie Deignan
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Lizzie Deignan won the silver medal in the road race.
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Lizzie Deignan has won the British National Road Race Championships four times, in 2011,2013,2015 and 2017.
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Lizzie Deignan took up cycling in 2004 after British Cycling's Olympic Talent Team visited the school.
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Lizzie Deignan is a graduate of British Cycling's Olympic Podium Programme.
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Lizzie Deignan won a silver medal in the scratch race at the Junior World Track Championships in 2005, she was under-23 European Scratch Race Champion in 2007 and 2008, and came second in the Points Race in 2007.
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Lizzie Deignan was a member of the gold medal-winning team pursuit squad at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, her second appearance at a senior world championship event.
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Lizzie Deignan competed in the scratch race, where despite being brought down in the closing stages of the race, she jumped back on to claim the silver medal.
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Lizzie Deignan won the under 23 category of the British National Road Race Championships and the silver medal in the senior category after some controversy.
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Lizzie Deignan enjoyed a career-best year, starting with a win at the Omloop van het Hageland.
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Lizzie Deignan took part in the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France in Paris on 27 July 2014, but crashed with 1 kilometre to the finish.
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Lizzie Deignan won the UCI Women's Road World Cup with a race to spare on 24 August 2014.
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Lizzie Deignan claimed the first overall win of her career taking the Ladies Tour of Qatar stage race, as well as winning two stages.
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Lizzie Deignan then went on to take victories at the one day World Cup races Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio and Philadelphia Cycling Classic, along with the Holland Hills Classic.
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Lizzie Deignan's stated aim for the 2016 season was the road race at the Olympic Games, and she started the season as she had finished off the previous one, securing a number of one day race wins, as well as a General classification victory, breaking any curse of the rainbow jersey.
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Lizzie Deignan took four victories in the inaugural UCI Women's World Tour; Strade Bianche, Trofeo Alfredo Binda, Tour of Flanders and the overall title at The Women's Tour.
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Lizzie Deignan took victories in the Holland Hills Classic and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
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In 2016, Lizzie Deignan avoided a ban from cycling that would have prevented her from competing in the Olympic Games.
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However, at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lizzie Deignan argued that the first missed test was not a fault of her own but rather that of the testing authorities.
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World squash champion James Willstrop wrote in defence of Lizzie Deignan, arguing that the complexity of testing procedures can easily lead to missed tests and noting that she had 16 clean tests in 2016.
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Lizzie Deignan endured a difficult start to her 2017 season: after finishing third at Strade Bianche, she fell ill, which hampered her training.
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Lizzie Deignan became the third woman to win the race twice, alongside Vos and Pooley.
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Lizzie Deignan was chosen to be part of the UK's cycling squad at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she contested the road race with Anna Shackley as a teammate.
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The race finished with an unexpected winner in Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria, with Lizzie Deignan finding the conditions humid and difficult.
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In February, Lizzie Deignan announced that she would sit out the 2022 season, as she was pregnant with her second child.
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Lizzie Deignan was selected to represent Great Britain at the Paris Olympics, finishing 12th in what was her fourth Games appearance.
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On 15 November, Lizzie Deignan announced she would retire at the end of the 2025 season.
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Lizzie Deignan married fellow professional road racing cyclist Philip Deignan in Otley on 17 September 2016.
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Lizzie Deignan has been a pescetarian for ethical reasons since the age of ten.
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In 2015, Lizzie Deignan was nominated for the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, following her world championship victory; she finished tenth, with approximately 22,000 of the 1.009 million votes cast.
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In December 2022, Lizzie Deignan was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to cycling.