Peta Mullens takes Wollongong race as Wiggle Honda dominates the NSW GP
Peta Mullens took her first victory for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling as the black and orange team completed a near-perfect weekend at the NSW Grand Prix in Wollongong. The 25-year-old Victorian was part a breakaway group of six which also contained teammate Charlotte Becker, escaped just before the halfway point of the race and managed to lap the field on the 660 metre long Flagstaff Hill circuit. With the main peloton having sprinted for seventh place three laps from the end, Mullens was easily able to outpace her breakmates to take the victory....
read moreDream run for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling at NSW Grand Prix
Lauren Kitchen has taken out the first round of the NSW Grand Prix with an impressive solo victory in Cronulla. The 23-year-old stormed away from her lead group to claim victory ahead of her team mates Charlotte Becker and Emily Collins, making it a clean podium sweep for the Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team. “The conditions were really tough out there today,” explained Kitchen. “Our plan was to be aggressive as we had the numbers and the strength to be able to do so. We didn’t want to sit in and wait for the race to unfold, so we took charge of...
read moreInterview: Wiggle Honda’s Joanne Tralaggan
By Tim Wiggins/Wiggle We caught up with Wiggle Honda’s latest team member Joanne Tralaggan; an enthusiastic Aussie who has seen her life transformed as she has been enveloped in the world of female pro bike racing. “Living proof things do and can happen to ordinary people” she talks us through her journey so far… Joanne: It is an unbelievable feeling being signed with Wiggle Honda for the remainder of 2013. Why unbelievable? Unbelievable because not only are Wiggle Honda one of the world’s most professional female cycling teams, but because...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling Signs Joanne Tralaggan For The Rest Of 2013
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is delighted to announce the signing of Joanne Tralaggan for the remainder of 2013. The 28-year-old Sydneysider is relatively new to competitive cycling but has made an almost immediate impact, winning the third stage of the recent Tour of the Goldfields. “Joanne was identified by one of Wiggle Honda’s talent spotters at a local club criterium where she raced with the men and finished third,” explained Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team manager Rochelle Gilmore. “Jo’s ability to read a race, be in the...
read moreAnna Sanchis signs for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling for 2014
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is delighted to announce that Anna Sanchis will be joining the team in 2014. The 26-year-old from the Communidad Valenciana region of western Spain is the reigning Spanish time trial champion – a title that she won in 2012 when she was also road race champion – and has represented Spain several times at World and Olympic level. “I’m so happy to be riding for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling next season,” said Sanchis. “I’m really happy to be joining one of the best teams at world, which is so organised...
read moreEmily Collins wins New Zealand National Criterium Championship
Emily Collins has won the New Zealand National Criterium Championships, in her home city of Auckland, on the country’s North Island. Despite being marked heavily throughout the 30-minute race, around a 1.1km downtown Takapuna circuit, the 23-year-old capped an attacking performance with a sprint victory over Sophie Williamson from Alexandra, with Karen Fulton of Nelson third. “I’m over the moon to win the New Zealand Criterium Nationals tonight!” Collins exclaimed. “I went in with a pretty relaxed attitude after coming off a nice off...
read moreLaura Trott takes Manchester World Cup Omnium after dominant second day
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s double Olympic champion Laura Trott dominated the second day of the Women’s Omnium in the first round of the Track World Cup, in Manchester. Competing on her home track, in the red, white and blue colours of Great Britain, the 21-year-old started the day down in sixth place after the first three events, but took second place in the Individual Pursuit, then won both the Scratch Race and 500 metre time trial to complete what turned out to be a comfortable victory. An early start to the third day of the World Cup saw...
read moreJoanna Rowsell takes her second Gold in the Individual Pursuit
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Joanna Rowsell won her second Gold Medal of the opening round of the UCI Track World Cup, in Manchester, with a powerful display in the Individual Pursuit. In the red, white and blue colours of Great Britain, the 24-year-old Surrey rider posted a time of three minutes, 34.341 seconds in qualification, more than a second quicker than the next fastest rider, Rebecca Wiasak of Australia. After two busy days on the boards of the Manchester Velodrome, where she had been part of Friday’s World Record breaking Team...
read moreWiggle Honda’s Peta Mullens takes second place in Noosa Grand Prix
Peta Mullens scored a near-perfect start to her career at Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling with a second place finish in the Subaru Australian Open Critérium, in Noosa, Queensland, on Saturday. Riding in her first ever race in black and orange colours, the 25-year-old Victorian managed to escape the peloton mid-race, along with Katrin Garfoot (QAS) and the two of them managed to hold off the chasing peloton together. Mullens was just unable to overcome Garfoot in the sprint for the finish, while Australian criterium champion Kimberly Wells...
read moreWiggle Honda quartet smashes TP World Record again in Manchester
The Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling quartet of Elinor Barker, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott smashed its own World Record in the 4000 metres Team Pursuit yet again, in the first World Cup event of the 2013/14 season, at the Manchester Velodrome. Riding for Great Britain, the four riders qualified fastest with 4 minutes, 23.910 seconds, knocking two and a half seconds off the time they set at the European Championships, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, then took another four seconds off this in the race for Gold. The winning time of 4 minutes,...
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