Steve Cummings won the team pursuit at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
17 Facts About Steve Cummings
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Steve Cummings took bronze in the individual pursuit at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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In 1999, riding for Birkenhead North End CC as a junior, aged 17, Steve Cummings won the Eddie Soens Memorial Road Race, a handicap race open to all categories.
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Steve Cummings went on to take the junior British National Road Race Championships that year.
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In February 2021 Steve Cummings announced that he was returning to Team Sky in its current incarnation as Ineos Grenadiers, joining the team's management as a development directeur sportif and coach.
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Steve Cummings joined new British-based Team Sky for the 2010 season.
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Steve Cummings won stage three in a mountain-top finish ahead of Alberto Contador, taking the overall lead of the race which he held until the final time-trial; he finished the tour in seventh place.
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Steve Cummings was part of the Great Britain team that helped Mark Cavendish win the men's road race at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships.
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Steve Cummings then finished 4th overall in the first Tour of Beijing.
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In February 2012, Steve Cummings broke his pelvis in an accident while competing in the Volta ao Algarve.
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Steve Cummings recuperated from those injuries and competed in the Tour de France, where he was a domestique to his leader Cadel Evans and finished 95th overall.
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On 18 July 2015, Steve Cummings won stage 14 of the Tour de France, beating French riders Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet in Mende, 1.5 kilometres after the Cote de la Croix Neuve category 2 climb.
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On 8 July 2016, Steve Cummings took another breakaway win in the Tour de France, this time on Stage 7, with a winning margin of 65 seconds over Daryl Impey and Daniel Navarro.
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Steve Cummings took what British journalist William Fotheringham considered to be the most important stage race victory of his career up to that date at the Tour of Britain in September 2016.
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Steve Cummings finished 2nd on stage 2 in Kendal, Cumbria, gaining a minute over most of his rivals.
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Steve Cummings subsequently moved into the lead on stage 6 and held this position for the remaining two days.
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In November 2019, Steve Cummings announced his retirement from professional cycling.