Stephen Philip Cummings (born 19 March 1981) is an English former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the , , , , and squads.

Biography

Cummings won the team pursuit at the

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in Melbourne. He also took bronze in the individual pursuit at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. At the

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in Athens Cummings and the Great Britain team won the silver medal in the team pursuit and achieved a time of 3:59.866 in the heats. In 1999, riding for Birkenhead North End CC as a junior, aged 17, Cummings won the Eddie Soens Memorial Road Race, a handicap race open to all categories. It remains the only time in 46 years that a junior has won. He went on to take the junior British National Road Race Championships that year. In 2006 he rode for and came second in the

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to Alessandro Ballan of . In 2007 he switched to before moving to in 2008. His first professional win was in 2008, stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria. In February 2021 Cummings announced that he was returning to Team Sky in its current incarnation as , joining the team's management as a development '' directeur sportif'' and coach.

Team Sky (2010–11)

Cummings joined new British-based for the 2010 season. In 2011, racing with Sky, he had arguably his most successful professional race to date at the

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. He won stage three in a mountain-top finish ahead of

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, taking the overall lead of the race which he held until the final time-trial; he finished the tour in seventh place. In September, Cummings finished second overall in the

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. Later that month he announced he would join for the 2012 season. Cummings was part of the Great Britain team that helped Mark Cavendish win the men's road race at the

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. He then finished 4th overall in the first Tour of Beijing.

BMC Racing Team (2012–15)

In February 2012, Cummings broke his

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in an accident while competing in the

. In April, bad luck struck again when he fractured his left wrist in the Tour of the Basque Country. He recuperated from those injuries and competed in the

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, where he was a ''domestique'' to his leader

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and finished 95th overall. In the

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, he gained his first

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victory. On Stage 13, he broke away with six other riders after the first hour of racing. The break made it through on the mainly flat course and he attacked with about to race, creating a gap. He held on to his lead and won by four seconds over the two chasers,

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of and 's Juan Antonio Flecha.

MTN–Qhubeka/Dimension Data (2015–19)

In October 2014, Cummings announced that he would be joining for the 2015 season. 2015 Tour de France, Stage 2 start (18814039303)

On 18 July 2015, Cummings won stage 14 of the

, beating French riders Thibaut Pinot and

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in Mende, after the Côte de la Croix Neuve category 2 climb. It was the first

stage win for both Cummings and his African team , fittingly coming on Mandela Day. On 8 July 2016, Cummings took another breakaway win in the

, this time on Stage 7, with a winning margin of 65 seconds over Daryl Impey and

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. In July 2016 he was added to Great Britain's Olympic cycling team for the

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, replacing

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. Cummings took what British journalist

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considered to be the most important stage race victory of his career to date at the

in September 2016. He finished 2nd on stage 2 in

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, Cumbria, gaining a minute over most of his rivals. He subsequently moved into the lead on stage 6 and held this position for the remaining two days. During the

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Cummings crashed heavily and required surgery. After a long period of recovery he won both the

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and the British National Road Race Championships on the Isle of Man, becoming only the second rider to win both titles in the same year after

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achieved the same feat in 2007. In November 2019, Cummings announced his retirement from professional cycling.

Major results

;1999 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Road race, National Junior Road Championships : 1st Eddie Soens Memorial Race ;2001 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Team pursuit, National Track Championships ;2004 : 2nd Silver medal olympic

Team pursuit,

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;2005 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Team pursuit, National Track Championships : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 6th

Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts The Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in the commune of Villers-Cotterêts, France from 1998 until 2008. In 2005 and 2006, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, and was also ...

;2006 :

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::1st

Team pursuit ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Individual pursuit ::4th Road race : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Team pursuit, National Track Championships : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships : 2nd

;2007 : 1st Gold medal blank

Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup Classics, Sydney ;2008 : 1st

Coppa Bernocchi The Coppa Bernocchi is a European bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 1919 the business magnate Antonio Bernocchi founded the Coppa Bernocchi (or Bernocchi Cup) ...

: 2nd Overall Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall

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: 2nd Overall

;2009 : 1st Stage 3 Giro del Capo : 4th

: 5th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : 7th

;2010 : 4th

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;2011 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall

: 4th Overall Tour of Beijing : 7th Overall

::1st Stage 3 : 9th Overall

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (Polish: ''Wyścig Dookoła Polski'', English: ''Tour of Poland'', official abbreviation TdP,) is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages ...

: 9th Overall

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;2012 : 1st Stage 13

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: 1st Stage 5 Tour of Beijing ;2013 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Tour of Qatar ;2014 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 4 (

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) : 2nd Overall Dubai Tour : 4th Overall

Tour du Poitou-Charentes Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a road bicycle race held annually in the former region of Poitou-Charentes (now Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France. It was first held in 1987 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI E ...

: 7th Time trial,

: 8th Overall

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hou ...

;2015 : 1st Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'Es Colomer : 1st Stage 14

: 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 6th Overall

;2016 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 1st Stage 7

: 1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Basque Country : 1st Stage 7 Criterium du Dauphiné ;2017 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotReinoUnido

Road race ::1st MaillotReinoUnido

Time trial : 1st Stage 1 Giro della Toscana : Jersey red number

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Stage 12

;2019 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 10th Overall

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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