Steve Cummings: Rider Profile

• Wednesday, 5 January 2011
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Steve Cummings
Date of birth: 19/03/1981
From: Wirral
Team: BMC Racing
Previous teams: Sky (2010-2011); Barloworld (2008-2009); Discovery Channel (2007), Landbouwkrediet (2005-2006)

Steve Cummings career profile
Steve Cummings showed prodigious talent as a young rider, winning the Eddy Soens memorial race at the age of 17, becoming the youngest rider ever to do so.

Cummings chose to focus the early part of his career on the track, winning pursuit titles first at British, then World and finally Commonwealth levels. Cummings has also forged a strong career on the road, where he currently rides for the Barloworld team.

2008 was perhaps Cummings' finest season to date, taking his first professional win in the early part of the season where he took a stage in the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria. He then followed this up with victory in the one-day Coppa Bernocchi. Cummings went from strength to strength throughout the 2008 season, finishing fourth on one of the toughest stages of the Giro d'Italia, second in the Tour of Denmark and second in the Tour of Britain.

Cummings had a largely disappointing season with the Italian Barloworld squad in 2009, with less racing days than he would have liked, and subsequently moved to Sky at the end of the year.

After a relatively quiet 2010 season, Cummings burst into 2011 with a stage win in the Tour of the Algarve in Portugal.

Cummings signed for BMC Racing from Sky for the 2012 season.

Steve Cummings results
2011
Tour of the Algarve; stage three

2009
Cape Argus Giro del Capo Challenge; King of the Mountains
Cape Argus Giro del Capo Challenge three

2008
Coppa Bernocchi
Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria; stage two

2006
Commonwealth team pursuit champion
British team pursuit champion

2005
World team pursuit champion
British team pursuit champion

2001
British team pursuit champion

1999
Eddy Soens memorial race

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