Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Laura Elizabeth Bissell |
Nickname | Lulu |
Born | England Great Britain | 19 June 1983
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
Team information | |
Current team | scientific-coaching.com |
Discipline | Road, time trail and track |
Role | Rider |
Amateur team | |
1997–2004 | Team Welwyn/Welwyn Wheelers |
Professional teams | |
2005 | Fat Birds UK (FBUK) |
2006–2007 | GS Strada |
2008 | scientific-coaching.com |
Laura Elizabeth Bissell (born 19 June 1983) [1] is an English road and track racing cyclist. [2]
Bissell was born in Hitchin, England. She has represented her country at international events on several occasions. [3] She was a member of the British Cycling Development Plan squad alongside Nicole Cooke, competing at the 2000 and 2001 junior road world championship and the 2001 junior track world championships in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, United States. [4]
Bissell lives in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Her brother, Peter Bissell, was also a successful cyclist.
Christopher Malcolm Newton is an English road and track racing cyclist. Newton is a multiple world champion and triple Olympic medalist.
Catherine Rachel "Katie" Prankerd is a Welsh former professional road and track cyclist.
Divera Maria Koedooder is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist.
Tim Mertens is a former Belgian professional racing cyclist. He got most of his successes on the track.
Paul Curran is a former professional English racing cyclist from Thornaby, North Yorkshire.
Geoff Cooke is a British cycling coach. He was a BCF National Cycling Coach from 1979 to 1989, a BC National Youth Sprint Coach from 2003 to 2009.
Janet Susan Birkmyre is an English track racing cyclist. She took up cycling in 2003 and raced for the first time in 2004. Since then she has been an elite British National Champion three times, winning the National Scratch race in 2012 as well as the National Derny Championships in 2015 and 2008, she has also won the National Omnium Series eight times. In addition, she has taken 49 World Masters Championship titles, plus 28 European Masters titles and 73 National Masters titles.
Alexandra Greenfield is a Welsh former road and track cyclist from Barry. She began competing at a young age with the Maindy Flyers children's cycle club before joining Cardiff Ajax CC. Greenfield holds the record for the 5 km Tandem Standing Start event on the track along with Katie Curtis, with a time of 7 minutes 4.424 seconds. The record was set in Newport Velodrome on 10 June 2004. She transitioned from Wiggle High5's former technical director and assistant directeur sportif, to be Cycling New Zealand's women's endurance assistant coach by mid-2018.
Anna Blyth is an English racing cyclist from Leeds. She began racing at 15, having been spotted by British Cycling at Benton Park. She joined the World Class Start Programme, becoming a member of the Olympic Development Plan and the Olympic Academy.
Tara Alice Whitten is a Canadian former racing cyclist.
Hannah Mayho is an English road and track cyclist from Cullingworth, West Yorkshire, and a member of British Cycling's Olympic Academy Squad. A former county netball player and cross-country runner, Mayho began cycling in 2006 having been spotted at her school by British Cycling's Talent Team, she was then coached by their coaches Phil West and Frances Newstead. At first she concentrated on athletics, but, seeing the pathway to success more clearly defined in cycling, she chose to concentrate on that sport.
Danielle 'Dani' Rowe MBE is a British former road and track cyclist. She retired from cycling in December 2018.
Annette Edmondson is an Australian former cyclist who competed on the track with Cycling Australia's High Performance Unit (HPU). She also competed on the road for the Wiggle High5 team between 2015 and 2018.
Amy Louise Cure is an Australian former professional track cyclist. She cycles for Team Jayco–AIS. She has set several world records. She won a junior world championship race in 2009, and represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the first person in history to medal at every endurance track event at world championship level; with three newly gained medals in the team pursuit, omnium, and madison at 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong.
The Leicestershire Road Club is a cycling club in Leicester, England. The club has produced European and world champions.
Elinor Jane Barker is a Welsh road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Uno-X Mobility. Representing Great Britain in international competitions, Barker is an Olympic champion, a three-time World champion and seven-time European champion in the team pursuit, as well as a three-time World champion in the points and scratch races, a World champion in the madison, a two-time European madison champion and one time European elimination race champion. Representing Wales, Barker was also the points race champion at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Dannielle Jade "Danni" Khan is an English racing cyclist, who currently rides for British amateur team Saint Piran WRT. She won the sprint and 500m TT events at the Juniors world championships in 2013, as well as the silver medal in the Keirin.
Graeme Gilmore is an Australian retired track cyclist. He is the father of Belgian racing cyclist Matthew Gilmore and brother in law of British racing cyclist Tom Simpson.
Katie Archibald, is an elite racing cyclist, specialising in endurance track cycling events in which she represents Great Britain and Scotland.
Marit Raaijmakers is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Human Powered Health. She rode for Parkhotel Valkenburg in the women's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.