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Roger Hammond (born 30 January 1974) is a male
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retired
bicycle racer Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...
, specialising in cyclo-cross and road cycling.


Education

Hammond grew up in
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in
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and attended
Dr Challoner's Grammar School Dr Challoner's Grammar School (also known as DCGS, Challoner's Boys or simply Challoner's) is a selective grammar school for boys, with a co-educational Sixth Form, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. It was given academy status in January 2 ...
as a teenager. 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
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in the road race event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in
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,
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. He repeated this achievement four years later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He was the British road champion in 2003 and 2004. He rode for in 2005–2006, for in 2007–2008, for in 2009–2010, and in 2011. 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. In November 2015 he announced that he would join as a sports director for the 2016 season, initially combining the position with his Madison-Genesis role. He returned to Madison-Genesis for the team's last season in 2019. Hammond was in December 2019 named as performance director for the Bahrain-McLaren team for the 2020 season. He joined the Ineos Grenadiers in October 2021 as head of racing. Hammond has also worked as a pundit for
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, providing analysis of the
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.


Major results


Cyclo-cross

;1991–1992 : 1st UCI World Junior Championships ;1993–1994 : 1st National Championships ;1999–2000 : 1st National Championships ;2000–2001 : 1st National Championships ;2001–2002 : 1st National Championships : National Trophy Series ::1st Leicestershire ::1st London ;2002–2003 : 1st National Championships ;2003–2004 : 1st National Championships : National Trophy Series ::1st Leicestershire ;2005–2006 : 1st National Championships ;2007–2008 : 1st 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 Schaal Sels is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Merksem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions wh ...
: 10th
Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...
;2001 : 1st Textielprijs Vichte : 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 4th Le Samyn : 5th
Schaal Sels Schaal Sels is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Merksem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions wh ...
;2002 : 1st Tour Beneden-Maas : 1st
Grote 1-MeiPrijs The Grote 1-MeiPrijs (also named Ereprijs Victor De Bruyne) was a European single-day cycle race held in the Belgian region of Flanders, around Hoboken. From 2005, the race was organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continenta ...
: 1st Sprints classification, Tour of Rhodes : 4th Road race, National Road Championships : 5th
Schaal Sels Schaal Sels is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Merksem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions wh ...
;2003 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Overall
Uniqa Classic The Uniqa Classic was a staged cycling race held in Austria. It was created in 1953 and was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste ...
::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd GP Jef Scherens Leuven : 2nd Stage 5
Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a s ...
: 8th
Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...
: 8th
Paris–Bourges Paris–Bourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent year with the length of races shortened it has become impossible to link the two cities a ...
;2004 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Paris–Roubaix : 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen : 3rd Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens : 6th Le Samyn : 6th
Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...
: 7th Road race,
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;2005 : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain : 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen : 2nd
Nationale Sluitingsprijs Nationale Sluitingprijs is a semi classic European bicycle race held annually in Putte (Kapellen), Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racin ...
;2006 : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2007 : 2nd
Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...
;2008 : 10th
Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...
;2009 : 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar ::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Overall
Tour of Denmark Danmark Rundt is a Danish stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. It is currently sponsored by the Danish national postal agency, PostNord, and the race is therefore also known as Po ...
: 3rd Overall
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: 4th
Paris–Bourges Paris–Bourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent year with the length of races shortened it has become impossible to link the two cities a ...
: 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2010 : 4th Paris–Roubaix : 7th
Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...


Classic results timeline


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Roger 1974 births Living people British male cyclists English male cyclists Cyclo-cross cyclists Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Great Britain British cycling road race champions Alumni of Brunel University London People from Chalfont St Peter People educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School English sports executives and administrators Cyclists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for England