Team Wiggins Le Col (), also known as ''Team Wiggins'' in media, was a professional developmental

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based in the United Kingdom, which began competing in elite

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and track cycling in 2015. The team folded at the end of the 2019 season after completing the Tour of Britain.

Team history

The team was founded by Bradley Wiggins, after much speculation in the latter part of the 2014 road season, in order to better facilitate his return to the track as part of his preparations for the

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. The team has a reported budget of £460,000 which is comparable to

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and Madison-Genesis. According to '' Cycling Weekly'' the team's management comprises Robert Dodds (president of XIX Entertainment, and Wiggins's manager), Andrew McQuaid (rider agent and director of Trinity Sports Management) and Wiggins himself. The team appointed former DS

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as its first directeur sportif . For the team's inaugural season the team began with eight full-time riders, with Wiggins joining on 1 May 2015. Those eight were

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, Mark Christian,

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, Iain Paton,

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and Michael Thompson. These eight riders are supplemented by riders from the British Academy on a race to race basis. On 5 January 2015 the team was officially awarded its UCI Continental licence. In March 2015, Bradley Wiggins confirmed that he would make his debut with the team at the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire at the start of May. In 2016, he entered the Tour De Yorkshire with his team and dropped out in the first stage. WIGGINS was not invited to the

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. In 2018 following the collapse of Team

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, Team Wiggins participated at short notice in the

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. Tom Pidcock was the team's highest placed rider in the race at 17th in the General Classification. In November 2018 the team filed paperwork with Companies House which indicated that XIX Entertainment no longer held a 40 percent stake in the team, and that this share had been transferred to Wiggins' firm, Wiggins Right Limited. In August 2019, Wiggins announced that the team would closing down at the end of the year.

Sponsorship

Sky, along with British Cycling, will sponsor and support the team. The team's kit was initially produced by Rapha. but as of 2018 the team switched to use Le Col as their clothing supplier. In December 2018 Wiggins announced that Le Col would step up to becoming the team's co-title sponsor for 2019, with the team being known as Team Wiggins Le Col. The team use Pinarello bikes equipped with Zipp,

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, Elite and SRAM components.

Final roster

Major wins

;2015 : Wiltshire GP,

: Stage 2 Flèche du Sud,

: Stages 3 & 4 Flèche du Sud,

: Round 6 – Barrow

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Points classification Tour of Britain,

;2016 : Stage 3a (ITT) Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux,

: Stage 4

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, Scott Davies : Stage 5 Olympia's Tour,

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;2017 : Klondike Grand Prix,

;2018 :

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::Stages 1 & 6, Gabriel Cullaigh :: Jersey white

Youth Classification,

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: Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic, Gabriel Cullaigh : Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Mark Donovan : Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux,

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;2019 :

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Mountain classification,

::Intermediate sprints classification,

::Stage 3, Gabriel Cullaigh :: Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification,

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Points classification, Thomas Pidcock ::Stage 2b, Thomas Pidcock : Paris–Roubaix Espoirs, Thomas Pidcock : Jersey yellow

Overall Tour Alsace, Thomas Pidcock :: Jersey blue

Young rider classification, Thomas Pidcock ::Stage 2, Thomas Pidcock

National, continental and world champions

;2015 :

British U23 Road Race,

British Track (Individual pursuit),

UEC European Track (Team pursuit) Bradley Wiggins ;2016 : Jersey rainbow

World Track (Points race),

World Track (Madison), Bradley Wiggins : MaillotReinoUnido

British U23 Time Trial, Scott Davies : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Games ( Team pursuit),

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& Bradley Wiggins : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Games ( Team Sprint), Philip Hindes ;2017 : MaillotReinoUnido

British U23 Time Trial, Scott Davies ;2018 : MaillotReinoUnido

British U23 Road Race, Robert Scott : MaillotNuevaZelanda

New Zealand U23 Road Race,

Irish U23 Time Trial,

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;2019 :

New Zealand Road Race,

New Zealand U23 Road Race,

New Zealand U23 Time Trial,

Irish U23 Time Trial,

References

External links

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