Wiggle Honda sending team of top class sprinters to Noosa Grand Prix
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is sending a team of top class sprinters to the Subaru Australian Open Criterium, on Saturday 2 November, in Noosa, Queensland, including three former winners of the prestigious event. 2012 winner Lauren Kitchen took the race in a breakaway, but is looking forward to supporting her fast finishing teammates this time. “I’m really excited to be given the opportunity to race again in the Noosa crit,” Kitchen said. “I have some great memories of the action packed race and look forward to supporting the team to...
read morePeta Mullens to join Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling in 2014
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is proud and excited to announce the signing of Australian Peta Mullens for 2014. The 25-year-old from Bendigo, Victoria, has taken five Australian national titles in Mountain Running, Track Cycling, Road Cycling, and Marathon and Cross Country Mountainbiking. Having ridden in Europe for the Australian Institute of Sport team in the 2008 season, she is looking forward to taking her first steps into the women’s professional peloton. “I’m excited to be joining the Wiggle Honda team for the 2014 season,” Mullens...
read moreLaura Trott reclaims Omnium title at European Track Championships
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Laura Trott reclaimed the Omnium title that she first took in 2011, despite a crash in the Elimination Race that left her needing stitches, at the European Track Championships, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Finishing tied on points with Netherlands powerhouse Kirsten Wild, with 15 each, Trott’s superior time in the final event, the 500 metre time trial, meant that the Olympic champion took the victory by almost a third of a second. Belgium’s Jolien D’Hoore took the bronze medal at the end of a close contest with 18...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling riders smash Team Pursuit World Record
Riding for the victorious Great Britain team, Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Elinor Barker, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott smashed their own World record in the Team Pursuit at the European Track Championships, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The qualification ride, featuring Barker, Rowsell and Trott, along with Edinburgh City rider Katie Archibald, posted a time of four minutes 28.738 seconds for the new 4000 metre distance. This was almost four seconds quicker than the time that four Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling riders had set at the British...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling breaks Team Pursuit World Record at GB Nationals
The Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling quartet of Elinor Barker, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott set a new World Record in the Team Pursuit in its very first competitive outing at the new 4000 metre distance. World champions Barker, King and Trott were joined by Rowsell – who was part of the Olympic Championship trio with King and Trott – to record a time of four minutes, 32.721 seconds, finishing almost 40 seconds quicker than the City of Edinburgh team in second place. “It’s quite different really, an extra 4 laps,...
read moreLinda Villumsen takes sixth place in World Championship Road Race
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Linda Villumsen battled to an impressive sixth place in the World Championship Road Race, in Florence, Italy, despite suffering from a nasty cold. Riding in the colours of her adopted New Zealand, the Danish-born rider was one of just eleven riders left at the front of the race going into the last of the five 16.5km circuits, but was just unable to respond to the attacks on the final climb. Defending champion Marianne Vos of the Netherlands managed to escape the others on the steepest slopes of the Via Salviani...
read moreLaura Trott tops all-Wiggle Honda podium in GB National Points Race
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s double Olympic champion Laura Trott took her second Great Britain national title in as many days in the Points Race in the National Cycling Centre Velodrome, Manchester. The 21-year-old took a total of 28 points during the one hundred lap race, to finish nine points clear of black and orange teammate Dani King, who took her second silver of the championships. Having been denied in the Individual Pursuit the evening before, 19-year-old Elinor Barker took the bronze medal to complete an all-Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling...
read moreLaura Trott wins Great Britain National Individual Pursuit Championship
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s double Olympic champion Laura Trott has taken her first ever national title in the Individual Pursuit, defeating black and orange teammate Dani King in the final. Trott completed the 3000 metre, 12-lap race in a time of 3 minutes, 34.973 seconds, almost eight seconds faster than King, who had been part of Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s team time trial squad at the Florence World Championships on Sunday. “Laura did a really good ride, and she backed up well as well,” said King afterwards.“I just didn’t really get on top...
read moreLinda Villumsen wins silver in the World Time Trial Championships
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s New Zealand champion Linda Villumsen won the silver medal in the World Time Trial Championships in Florence, Italy. The 29-year-old, who was the second to last rider to start, blasted around the flat 22.1km course around the historic Tuscan city in a time of 28 minutes, 12.28 seconds, to finish 4.64 seconds quicker than previous leader Carmen Small of the United States. Only Netherlands powerhouse Ellen van Dijk, who set off last as top seed, could unseat Villumsen, crossing the line in 27 minutes, 48.18 seconds, to...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling sixth in World Team Time Trial Championships
The Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team of Charlotte Becker, Emily Collins, Lauren Kitchen, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Linda Villumsen finished in sixth place in the World Team Time Trial Championships, in Florence, Italy. The black and orange team completed the 42.8km course in a time of 53 minutes 43.69 seconds, to finish just 2 minutes and 33 seconds slower than winning team Specialized-lululemon, who successfully defended its title from 12 months ago. “I think the riders were quite disappointed, but they did a really fantastic ride, and gave...
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