British professional road wins 2012
- Thursday, 9 February 2012
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We keep track of British riders' professional road victories throughout the 2012 cycling season on this page.
The British wins kicked off in style during the first half of February, with five wins coming the space of five days.
Andy Fenn opened the account with back-to-back victories in the Trofeo Mallorca.
World Champion Mark Cavendish came next, with two stage wins at the Tour of Qatar and Jonathan Tiernan-Locke surprised some big names at the Tour of the Med to take two stages and the overall in freezing conditions.
Tour de France overall hope Bradley Wiggins (Sky) won the final time trial at the Tour of the Algarve, Portugal, and on the same day Tiernan-Locke continued his winning streak by winning the final stage and overall of the Tour du Haut Var, France.
March continued with wins for Lizzie Armitstead, Russell Downing, Cavendish and crowned by Wiggins clinching Paris-Nice overall after winning the final time trial stage. April saw Downing, Nicole Cooke and Geraint Thomas take victories.
Cavendish took his first Grand Tour win of 2012 at the Giro d'Italia on stage two.
In 2011, British riders amassed an impressive total of 46 pro wins.
Total British wins as at May 20 2012: 30
February (11)
Andy Fenn (Omega Pharma-QuickStep): Trofeo Palma
Andy Fenn (Omega Pharma-QuickStep): Trofeo Migjorn
Mark Cavendish (Sky): Tour of Qatar, stage three
Mark Cavendish (Sky): Tour of Qatar, stage five
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Endura): Tour of the Mediterranean, stage one
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Endura): Tour of the Mediterranean, stage four
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Endura): Tour of the Mediterranean, overall
Bradley Wiggins (Sky): Tour of the Algarve, stage five
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Endura): Tour du Haut Var, stage two
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Endura): Tour du Haut Var, overall
Mark Cavendish (Sky): Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
March (8)
Russell Downing (Endura): GP Lillers
Lizzie Armitstead (AA Drink-leontien.nl): Omloop van het Hageland
Mark Cavendish (Sky): Tirreno-Adriatico, stage two
Bradley Wiggins (Sky): Paris-Nice, stage eight
Bradley Wiggins (Sky): Paris-Nice, overall
Ian Wilkinson (Endura): Tour de Normandie, stage three
Erick Rowsell (Endura): Tour de Normandie, stage five
Lizzie Armitstead (AA Drink): Ghent-Wevelgem
April (7)
Russell Downing (Endura): Circuit des Ardennes, stage one
Nicole Cooke (Faren-Honda): Energiewacht Tour, stage five
Geraint Thomas (Sky): Tour de Romandie, prologue
Bradley Wiggins (Sky): Tour de Romandie, stage one
Katie Colclough (Specialized-Lululemon): Gracia-Orlova, stage four
Bradley Wiggins (Sky): Tour de Romandie, stage five
Bradley Wiggins (Sky): Tour de Romandie, overall
May (4)
Mark Cavendish (Sky): Giro d'Italia, stage two
Mark Cavendish (Sky): Giro d'Italia, stage five
Mark Cavendish (Sky): Giro d'Italia, stage 13
Russell Downing (Endura): Glava Tour of Norway, stage five
Related links
2011: Another winning year for the Brits
British pros rack up 40 wins in 2010
Reader comments
Add your commentsFebruary 21 18:27
Ken Evans
CyclingWeekly could have a reader's poll guessing game,
where reader's try to guess which major events in 2012 Brits will win.
E.G. Track Worlds, Giro, Tour, Olympics, Road Worlds, etc.
February 21 18:50
Patricia
Five wins in February?? Surely Jonathan Tiernon-Locke qualifies for an official CW 'rider profile' by now?
February 22 13:43
Paul
Why is Jonathon's name not underlined? He has done really well and deserves to be highlighted along with the better known pro's.
April 25 10:20
Mark Jones
April's been a lean month for British wins with Cav's paternity leave, the World Track championships and JTL not finishing Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. Still with Sky's big guns at Romandie, the majority of Endura's team in Brittany being British plus our one and only UCI one day event at the weekend then hopefully we could have a few more yet.
April 29 20:28
Tim
Great to see the women now being listed alongside the men. Thank you CW.
Any chance of updating the heading of the separate article 'The all-time list of British pro winners' to include the word 'male'? Then have a separate list showing the all-time list of female British pro winners.
Thank you