Roger Hammond (cyclist)

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Roger Hammond
Roger Hammond 2016.jpg
Hammond at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full nameRoger Hammond
Born (1974-01-30) 30 January 1974 (age 50)
Oxford
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Team information
Current team Ineos Grenadiers
DisciplineRoad and Cyclo-cross
RoleLead Sports Director
Rider (retired)
Rider typeClassics Specialist
Professional teams
1998–2004 Palmans–Ideal
2005–2006 Discovery Channel
2007–2008 T-Mobile Team
2009–2010 Cervélo TestTeam
2011 Garmin–Cervélo
Managerial teams
2013–2016, 2019 Madison Genesis
2016–2018 Team Dimension Data
2020–2021 Bahrain–McLaren
2021– Ineos Grenadiers
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
National Championships
(1994, 2000–2004, 2006, 2008)
Road

One-Day Races and Classics

National Road Race Championships
(2003, 2004)

Roger Hammond (born 30 January 1974) is a male English retired bicycle racer, specialising in cyclo-cross and road cycling.

Contents

Education

Hammond grew up in Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School as a teenager. [1] While still at school he won the 1992 world junior cyclo-cross championship in Leeds, but elected to concentrate on his university studies before pursuing a cycling career.

Cycling career

Hammond represented England in the road race event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [2] He repeated this achievement four years later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. [3]

He was the British road champion in 2003 and 2004. He rode for Discovery Channel in 2005–2006, for Team High Road in 2007–2008, for Cervélo TestTeam in 2009–2010, and Garmin–Cervélo in 2011. [4] Hammond rode for the Great Britain team in the 2005 and 2006 Tour of Britain.

Post cycling

In July 2012 Roger Hammond was announced as the team manager of the newly formed Madison-Genesis team. [5] In November 2015 he announced that he would join Team Dimension Data as a sports director for the 2016 season, initially combining the position with his Madison-Genesis role. [6] He returned to Madison-Genesis for the team's last season in 2019. [7]

Hammond was in December 2019 named as performance director for the Bahrain-McLaren team for the 2020 season. [8]

He joined the Ineos Grenadiers in October 2021 as head of racing. [9]

Hammond has also worked as a pundit for ITV4, providing analysis of the Vuelta a España. [10]

Major results

Cyclo-cross

1991–1992
1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI World Junior Championships
1993–1994
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
1999–2000
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
2000–2001
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
2001–2002
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
National Trophy Series
1st Leicestershire
1st London
2002–2003
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
2003–2004
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
National Trophy Series
1st Leicestershire
2005–2006
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
2007–2008
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Championships
2008–2009
3rd National Championships

Road

1998
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2000
1st Archer Grand Prix
1st Grand Prix Bodson
2nd Grand Prix Fayt-Le-Franc
3rd Schaal Sels
10th Gent–Wevelgem
2001
1st Textielprijs Vichte
2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal
4th Le Samyn
5th Schaal Sels
2002
1st Tour Beneden-Maas
1st Grote 1-MeiPrijs
1st Sprints classification, Tour of Rhodes
4th Road race, National Road Championships
5th Schaal Sels
2003
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Uniqa Classic
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 2
2nd GP Jef Scherens Leuven
2nd Stage 5 Étoile de Bessèges
8th Gent–Wevelgem
8th Paris–Bourges
2004
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Paris–Roubaix
3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
3rd Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens
6th Le Samyn
6th Gent–Wevelgem
7th Road race, Olympic Games
2005
1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
2006
1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2007
2nd Gent–Wevelgem
2008
10th Gent–Wevelgem
2009
3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 2
3rd Overall Tour of Denmark
3rd Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole
4th Paris–Bourges
5th Road race, National Road Championships
2010
4th Paris–Roubaix
7th Tour of Flanders

Classic results timeline

Monument19981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011
Milan–San Remo 21 28 42 35 92 DNF 147
Tour of Flanders 73 71 DNF 48 30 52 DNF DNF 31 13 7 108
Paris–Roubaix 17 3 OTL 24 7 23 14 4 DNF
Liège–Bastogne–Liège DNF DNF
Giro di Lombardia did not contest during his career
Classic19981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad DNF 34 29 DNF DNF 59 16 43 45 61 19 74
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 1728312113DNF53135197 DNF
Dwars door Vlaanderen 23 25 22 17 3 2 16 15 44 11 13 74
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen DNF DNF 73 16 8 25 8 26 DNF 83 42 91
Gent–Wevelgem DNF 10 22 DNF 8 6 DNF 2 10 74 OTL 154
Roger Hammond in the 2006 Tour of Britain in London Roger Hammond ToB.jpg
Roger Hammond in the 2006 Tour of Britain in London

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