World Championship Omnium Silver for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Laura Trott
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Laura Trott took a hard-fought Silver Medal in the Omnium at the World Track Championships in Minsk, Belarus, behind Sarah Hammer of the United States. Trott, the reigning World and Olympic champion, was defending the title that she took in Melbourne, Australia, in 2012, but began the second and final day of the competition in third place overall, with a five point deficit to the American. As a five-time World champion, and the current World record holder in the discipline, it was no surprise that Hammer took first...
read moreBronze for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Bronzini in Worlds Points Race
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini took a hard-fought Bronze Medal in the Points Race at the World Track Championships in Minsk, Belarus, as she sought to regain the title that she won in 2009. Riding for the Italian National Team, the former two-time World champion on the road managed to accumulate a massive points total of 22, despite not being able to lap the field during the 20km race, and finished just eight points behind the winner. Jarmila Machakova of the Czech Republic took the Gold Medal, just one point ahead of Mexico’s...
read moreStrong legs but no luck for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Anna-Bianca Schnitzmeier was the best finisher for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling in the women’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, in 25th place, as the team had no luck in the European season opener. The freezing cold conditions in Gent, Belgium, saw the peloton stay together for the first half of the 125km race, but the succession of tough Flemish climbs in the middle of the course served to split it into several pieces. Schnitzmeier was in the front half of the peloton, along with Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling teammate Emily Collins, but when the race was...
read moreGold for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling riders in World Track Championships
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling trio Laura Trott, Dani King and Elinor Barker took Gold for Great Britain in the World Track Championships, in Minsk, Belarus, to successfully defend the title won the previous year. Reigning World and Olympic champions Trott and King were joined in the championships by 18-year-old Elinor Barker, replacing Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling teammate Joanna Rowsell, who is concentrating on the beginning her road season. The British team went fastest in the morning qualification session, with 3 minutes, 18.704 seconds for the...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling and SRM join forces
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling and industry leading power training systems, SRM Training Systems, have formed a technical partnership for 2013. The Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team join an elite group of teams who receive SRM Training System’s exclusive support. The technical partnership embodies the team’s philosophy of optimal rider support so they can reach their potential, and the SRM Training System provides the team with the best tools and technology available. The Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling riders will receive tailored “Wiggle...
read moreEmily Collins: New Zealand’s hope for the future
Twenty-two year old Emily Collins joins the Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team after a stellar season with the American registered Vanderkitten-Focus team in 2012. After previously dabbling in tennis and triathlon, Collins took up cycling in 2005 when she was scouted during a National Talent Identification program at school. Emily’s first big win came in 2008 at the New Zealand Secondary Schools National Championships, and the Kiwi rider hasn’t looked back since. In 2010 Collins based herself in Europe where she immediately caught the eyes of...
read moreWiggle Honda riders make the selection in stage one of the Ladies Tour of Qatar
In their very first race together as a team, Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Rochelle Gilmore and Lauren Kitchen both finished safely in the main group at the end of the first stage of the Ladies’ Tour of Qatar, between Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art and Mesaieed, after a hard day in the desert wind. The stage was won by Australian Chloe Hosking (Hitec Products) after she escaped in a group of four riders with just ten kilometres of the 97km stage to go. The group led by 45 seconds with two kilometres to go but, thanks to hard work from Wiggle...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling presented at Millbank Media Centre, London
The brand new Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team was presented to the media last Friday at London’s prestigious Millbank Media Centre on the banks of the River Thames. The 12-strong international roster of riders was introduced one by one by Eurosport’s voice of cycling David Harmon. The team is led by Australian Commonwealth Games Champion Rochelle Gilmore and Italian two-time World Champion, but includes three of the biggest stars in British cycling in Olympic Champions Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott. The British contingent is...
read moreGOLDEN GAMES STARS READY TO HIT THE ROAD
By Matt McGeehan, Press Association Sport Olympic champions Laura Trott and Dani King are excited ahead of a fresh challenge on the road in 2013. The Britons are part of the women’s Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team, which was launched today and is backed by Tour de France champion Sir Bradley Wiggins, through his foundation. For Trott, who won the six-event omnium and team pursuit gold alongside King in London last August, the road is rather an unknown. Double London 2012 champion Trott told Press Association Sport: “It’s going...
read moreSKINS supports women’s cycling with Wiggle Honda
In 2013, SKINS will support women’s cycling by supplying Wiggle Honda with its gradient compression clothing for training and recovery. Jaimie Fuller, SKINS Chairman said: “We believe that women’s cycling is completely under valued by the cycling governing body, the UCI. Women’s cycling deserves attention and Wiggle Honda as a brand partner with SKINS will champion the true spirit of competition. This is the stuff that gets our blood racing. Whilst the sport of cycling suffers from some very real challenges, women’s cycling and in particular,...
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