Team Halfords Bikehut

Team Halfords Bikehut was a 2008 UCI elite women's cycling team based in the United Kingdom. The team was formed in January 2008 with Dave Brailsford, performance director of British Cycling, the general manager. It had been a pro/national team mooted as the first full British professional women's team^[2] but there were two men in the team (Rob Hayles and Tom Southam). The team was in 2009 not an UCI Women's Teams anymore and consisted of a mix of mountain bikers and road racers (mainly men): Rob Hayles, Ed Clancy, Ian Wilkinson, Andy Tennant, Mark McNally, Rob Partridge, Seb Batchelor, David Fletcher, Annie Last, Sharon Laws, Ian Bibby. The team disbanded ahead of the 2010 season, with a number of riders moving to the Scottish-based Endura Racing team.

The team helped train some of the UK's medal-winning cyclists such as Nicole Cooke, who said: "Setting up Team Halfords was crucial to my success,".^[3]

Team roster

Ages as of 1 January 2008.^[4][5]

Rider Date of birth  Nicole Cooke (GBR) (1983-04-13)April 13, 1983 (aged 24)  Catherine Hare Willianson (GBR) (1982-03-13)March 13, 1982 (aged 25)  Jessica Allen (GBR) (1989-01-12)January 12, 1989 (aged 18)  Katie Curtis (GBR) (1988-11-01)November 1, 1988 (aged 19)  Tanja Slater (GBR) (1978-05-09)May 9, 1978 (aged 29)  Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR) (1974-11-27)November 27, 1974 (aged 33)

Rider Date of birth  Emma Trott (GBR) (1989-12-24)December 24, 1989 (aged 18)  Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) (1988-12-18)December 18, 1988 (aged 19)  Joanna Rowsell (GBR) (1988-12-05)December 5, 1988 (aged 19)  Helen Gaskell (GBR) (1983-01-16)January 16, 1983 (aged 24)  Sharon Laws (GBR) (1974-07-07)July 7, 1974 (aged 33)  Katie Colclough[N 1] (GBR) (1990-01-20)January 20, 1990 (aged 17)

• Male riders: Tom Southam, Rob Hayles

Season victories

Single day and stage races 2008^[6]

Date	Nation	Race	Cat.	Winner
17 May	France	Stage 1 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin	2.2	Nicole Cooke
9 September	France	Stage 1 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche	2.2	Nicole Cooke

National, Continental, World and Olympic champions 2008^[6]

Date	Discipline	Jersey	Winner
28 March	Track Cycling World Champion - Team pursuit		Joanna Rowsell Wendy Houvenaghel (with Rebecca Romero)
28 June	British National Road Race Championships		Nicole Cooke
10 August	Olympic Champion – Women's road race	-	Nicole Cooke
7 September	British National Time Trial Championships		Nicole Cooke
September	European Track Champion - Under-23 team pursuit		Lizzie Armitstead Katie Colclough Joanna Rowsell
7 September	European Track Champion - Under-23 scratch		Lizzie Armitstead
27 September	World Champion – Women's road race		Nicole Cooke

Results in major races

Results at the 2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup races

#	Date	Race	Country	Best rider	Place
#1	000000002017-02-24-000024 February	Geelong World Cup	Australia	-	-
#2	000000002017-03-24-000024 March	Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio	Italy	Nicole Cooke	20th
#3	000000002017-04-06-00006 April	Tour of Flanders for Women	Belgium	Nicole Cooke	16th
#4	000000002017-04-12-000012 April	Ronde van Drenthe	Netherlands	-	-
#5	000000002017-04-23-000023 April	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine	Belgium	Nicole Cooke	8th
#6	000000002017-05-04-00004 May	Tour de Berne	Switzerland	-	-
#7	000000002017-05-31-000031 May	La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal	Canada	-	-
#8	000000002017-07-30-000030 July	Open de Suède Vårgårda	Sweden	-	-
#9	000000002017-08-01-00001 August	Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT	Sweden	-	-
#10	000000002017-08-24-000024 August	GP de Plouay-Bretagne	France	-	-
#11	000000002017-09-16-000016 September	Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt	Germany	-	-

Lizie Armitstead (left) won the silver medal behind Ellen van Dijk in the points race at the European Track Championships

Results in other major single day races

Date	Race[M 1]	Rider	Place
28 March	Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit	Joanna Rowsell Wendy Houvenaghel (with Rebecca Romero)	01 !
29 March	Track Cycling World Championships – Women's points race	Lizzie Armitstead	19th
30 March	Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch	Lizzie Armitstead	7th
10 August	Summer Olympics – Women's road race	Nicole Cooke (GBR)	01 !
3 September	European Track Championships – Women's omnium	Ellen van Dijk	02 !
September	European Track Championships – Women's under-23 team pursuit	Lizzie Armitstead Katie Colclough Joanna Rowsell	01 !
6 September	European Track Championships – Women's under-23 individual pursuit	Joanna Rowsell	03 !
7 September	European Track Championships – Women's under-23 scratch	Lizzie Armitstead Ex aequo with Ellen van Dijk	01 !
6 September	European Track Championships – Women's under-23 points race	Lizzie Armitstead	02 !
24 September	Road World Championships – Women's road race[7]	Nicole Cooke (GBR)	01 !

UCI World Ranking

The team finished 10th in the UCI ranking for teams.^[8]

Individual UCI World Ranking^[8]

Rank	Rider	Points
4	Nicole Cooke	536
143	Sharon Laws	28
185	Joanna Rowsell	16
210	Jessica Allen	12
241	Catherine Hare	10

References

1. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7513637.stm
2. ↑ http://www.teamhalfordsbikehut.com
3. ↑ Pattenden, Mike (4 January 2009). "HEY, I'M WORTH A LOOK TOO - Nicole Cooke , the queen of road cycling, tells Mike Pattenden why she feels like Cinderella". The Sunday Times. (Subscription required (help)). 
4. ↑ "UCI Team Members; 2008 season". UCI. Retrieved 23 March 2015. 
5. ↑ 2008 » Team Halfords Bikehut Procyclingstats.com
6. 1 2 "Team Halfords Bikehut (HBH) - UCI 2008". CQranking.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014. 
7. ↑ "2008 75th World Championships WE - Road Race (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014. 
8. 1 2 2008 UCI Road Rankings Women Elite

1. ↑ "2017 Season - UCI Women's Teams".