Lucy Garner

Lucy Garner

Garner racing in the Oxford round of the 2012 Halfords Tour Series
Personal information
Full name Lucy Garner
Born 20 September 1994
Leicester, England[1]
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[1][2]
Team information
Current team Team Liv-Plantur
Discipline Road and Track
Role Rider
Amateur team(s)
2011–2012 Node4 Pro Cycling
Professional team(s)
2013– Team Argos-Shimano
Infobox last updated on
22 July 2013

Lucy Garner (born 20 September 1994) is a British racing cyclist. She races professionally with Team Argos-Shimano and is a double junior world road race champion.

Early life and amateur career

Garner grew up in Cosby, Leicestershire. Her first cycling club was the Leicestershire Road Club.[3] Competing with them from 2004 to 2012, she won many National Awards from both the British Schools Cycling Association and British Cycling. She remained in full-time education until 2012, when she left Countesthorpe Community College having completed her AS-levels.[4]

Garner won her first junior world title at the road world championships in Copenhagen. She was part of a late six-woman breakaway from the peloton, and won the race comfortably in a sprint for the line.[5] A year later, she retained her title in a bunch sprint finish of 19 riders at the championships in Valkenburg, Netherlands,[6] having had a lead-out from Elinor Barker.

Professional career

Garner signed a professional contract with UCI Women's Team Team Argos-Shimano in October 2012,[7][8] turning professional at the start of the 2013 season.[9][10] In May 2013, she claimed her first professional victory on the opening stage of the Tour of Chongming Island in Shanghai, China.[11]

Personal life

Garner lives in Woudenberg in the Netherlands with her boyfriend Lars van der Haar,[12] a Dutch professional cyclist, competing primarily in the cyclo-cross discipline, with the Rabobank Development Team. Van der Haar is best known for winning the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships in 2013,[13] and the Under-23 Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2011 and 2012.[14][15]

Palmarès

Source:[16]

2011
1st UCI Road World Championships – Junior women's road race
2012
1st UCI Road World Championships – Junior women's road race
1st European Road Championships – Junior women's road race
1st European Junior Track Championships – Team pursuit (with Amy Roberts and Elinor Barker)
2nd European Junior Track Championships – Team sprint (with Dannielle Khan)
2013 – Team Argos-Shimano 2013 season
1st Stage 1 Tour of Chongming Island
2014 – Team Giant-Shimano 2014 season
2nd Drentse 8
3rd Grand Prix de Dottignies
2015
2nd Ronde van Gelderland

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Node4 Pro Cycling Ladies Team". Node4 Pro Cycling. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Richardson, Simon (6 December 2011). "Lucy Garner: Rider Profile". Cycling Weekly (IPC Media).
  3. ↑ "Cycling: Lucy Garner joins 'dream team'". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Myatt, Brian (October 2012). "Message from the Principal" (PDF). Countesthorpe Community College Connect.
  5. ↑ "UCI Road Cycling World Championships 2011: Great Britain's Lucy Garner wins gold medal in junior road race". Daily Telegraoh. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Britain's Lucy Garner retains junior world road race title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Cycling: Lucy Garner joins 'dream team'". Leicester Mercury. 11 October 2012.
  8. ↑ Atkins, Ben (9 October 2012). "Lucy Garner launches pro career at Argos-Shimano in 2013". VeloNation.
  9. ↑ "Lucy Garner signs professional deal with Argos-Shimano". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  10. ↑ Been, Jose. "Double junior world champion Lucy Garner on turning senior – 'I have to start all over again". Velo Nation. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  11. ↑ Bull, Nick (8 May 2013). "Lucy Garner takes first professional victory at the Tour of Chongming Island". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  12. ↑ Abraham, Richard (27 February 2013). "Lucy Garner loving life as a professional". Cycling Weekly (IPC Media). Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  13. ↑ "Primeur Lars van der Haar na knappe solo" [Lars van der Haar first after magnificent solo]. Rabosport (in Dutch) (Rabobank Groep). 13 January 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  14. ↑ Pelkey, Charles (29 January 2011). "Dutch go 1–2 in U23 world cyclocross race". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  15. ↑ "Van Der Haar earns U23 'cross Worlds title". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 28 January 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  16. ↑ Lucy Garner profile at Cycling Archives. Retrieved 8 May 2013.

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