Graham Briggs (born 14 July 1983) is a British road racing cyclist, who currently rides for British amateur team Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy.

Career

Born in

Rossington Rossington is a civil parish and former mining village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England and is surrounded by countryside and the market towns of Bawtry and Tickhill. Geography Historically part of the West R ...

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, Briggs initially played football as a youngster before switching to cycling, initially off-road as a cyclo-cross rider and then the discipline of mountain biking, until the foot and mouth crisis of 2001. He competed for Great Britain in the Under-23 road race at the

2003 UCI Road World Championships The 2003 UCI Road World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, between October 7 and October 12, 2003. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women. David Millar wa ...

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. The majority of his road racing career has been spent in city centre competitions leading to successes in the Elite Circuit Race Series in recent years. Briggs is classed as a sprinter and was the winner of the

British National Circuit Race Championships The British National Circuit Race Championships cover several different categories of British road bicycle racing events, normally held annually. The first championships were held in 1979 for professional cyclists only. Amateur championships were ...

in 2011. Briggs left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season; his third spell with the latter squad. Graham Briggs is a co-founder of the Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy with the mission "to move a generation of children, putting the bicycle back at the heart of childhood play, forming lifelong habits that will deliver benefits for health and the environment for years to come."

Major results

;2001 : 3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2007 : 5th Overall Girvan Three Day ;2008 : 3rd Blackpool Grand Prix Circuit Race : 3rd Clayton Velo Spring Classic : 7th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher : 8th National Criterium Championships ;2009 : 1st Round 1 – Milton Keynes,

Tour Series The Tour Series is an annual series of cycling criterium races held in the United Kingdom since 2009. It is televised by ITV4 in the UK. The competition emphasises team effort with individual wins deemed less important. The races are held over 1 ...

: 1st Stage 2 Girvan Three Day : 2nd Blackburn Grand Prix : 4th Brighouse Circuit Race : 4th Warwick Town Centre Race : 7th Colne Grand Prix : 8th East Yorkshire Classic Circuit Race : 10th

Tour of the Reservoir The Tour of the Reservoir is a two-day road bicycle race around the Derwent Reservoir, Northumberland in the north of England, part of the British Premier Calendar The British Cycling Premier Calendar Road Race Series is a season-long compe ...

;2010 : 2nd Blackburn Grand Prix : 3rd Dumfries Bike Fest Grand Prix : 7th Dumfries Elite Circuit Series Race : 7th Newport Nocturne ;2011 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

National Criterium Championships : 2nd Wales Open Criterium : 2nd Glade Spring Road Race : 4th Smithfield Nocturne : 6th Jock Wadley Memorial ;2012 : 1st Overall British Cycling Elite Circuit Race Series ::1st Brighouse Circuit Race ::1st Wales Open Criterium ::2nd Colne Grand Prix ::5th East Yorkshire Classic :10th Sheffrec CC Spring Road Race ;2013 : 2nd Monsal Hill-Climb : 4th Colne Grand Prix : 4th Wales Open Criterium : 10th Ryedale Grand Prix ;2014 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour du Loir et Cher ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Legstretchers Memorial to Betty Pharoah Road Race : 1st Round 2 – Barrow-in-Furness,

: 1st

Milk Race The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after the S ...

: 1st Colne Grand Prix : 1st Wales Open Criterium : 2nd National Criterium Championships : 2nd Eddie Soens Memorial : 2nd Newport Nocturne : 3rd Beverley Grand Prix : 3rd Jock Wadley Memorial Road Race : 5th Overall

New Zealand Cycle Classic The New Zealand Cycle Classic (previously known as the Tour of Wellington) is a road cycling race held in and around the Wairarapa near Wellington, New Zealand. The race is a men's competition over five stages and part of the UCI Oceania Tour ...

: 10th Stockton Grand Prix ;2015 : 1st Chepstow Grand Prix : 1st Wales Open Criterium : 2nd National Criterium Championships : 3rd Stockton Grand Prix : 3rd Grand Prix of Wales : 3rd Hitter Road Race : 8th Leicester Castle Classic ;2016 : 1st Round 3 - Edinburgh,

: 2nd - Aberystwyth,

: 3rd - Stevenage,

: 1st - Colne,

: 2nd - Stage 2,

Tour of Britain The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after the S ...

;2017 :1st - Croyden,

:3rd - Stevenage,

:3rd - Rydale Grand Prix :2nd - London Nocturne ;2018 :9th - Prologue,

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually ...

:3rd - Aberystwyth,

:1st - Rydale Grand Prix

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Briggs, Graham 1983 births Living people People from Rossington Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster Cyclists from Yorkshire British male cyclists