Team Halfords Bikehut

Team Halfords Bikehut
Team information
UCI code HBH
Registered United Kingdom
Founded 2008 (2008)
Disbanded 2009
Discipline Road with also riders active on the track
Status UCI Women's Team
Bicycles Boardman Bike[1]
Key personnel
General manager Dave Brailsford
2008 Team Halfords Bikehut
UCI Team ranking 10th
Season victories
One-day races Road: 4
Track: 3
Stage race overall 0
Stage race stages 2
Best ranked rider Nicole Cooke (4th)

Team Halfords Bikehut was a 2008 UCI elite women's cycling team based in the United Kingdom. The team was formed in January 2008 with Dave Brailsford, performance director of British Cycling, the general manager. It had been a pro/national team mooted as the first full British professional women's team[2] but there were two men in the team (Rob Hayles and Tom Southam). The team was in 2009 not an UCI Women's Teams anymore and consisted of a mix of mountain bikers and road racers (mainly men): Rob Hayles, Ed Clancy, Ian Wilkinson, Andy Tennant, Mark McNally, Rob Partridge, Seb Batchelor, David Fletcher, Annie Last, Sharon Laws, Ian Bibby. The team disbanded ahead of the 2010 season, with a number of riders moving to the Scottish-based Endura Racing team.

The team helped train some of the UK's medal-winning cyclists such as Nicole Cooke, who said: "Setting up Team Halfords was crucial to my success,".[3]

Team roster

Ages as of 1 January 2008.[4][5]

Rider Date of birth
 Nicole Cooke (GBR) (1983-04-13)April 13, 1983 (aged 24)
 Catherine Hare Willianson (GBR) (1982-03-13)March 13, 1982 (aged 25)
 Jessica Allen (GBR) (1989-01-12)January 12, 1989 (aged 18)
 Katie Curtis (GBR) (1988-11-01)November 1, 1988 (aged 19)
 Tanja Slater (GBR) (1978-05-09)May 9, 1978 (aged 29)
 Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR) (1974-11-27)November 27, 1974 (aged 33)
Rider Date of birth
 Emma Trott (GBR) (1989-12-24)December 24, 1989 (aged 18)
 Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) (1988-12-18)December 18, 1988 (aged 19)
 Joanna Rowsell (GBR) (1988-12-05)December 5, 1988 (aged 19)
 Helen Gaskell (GBR) (1983-01-16)January 16, 1983 (aged 24)
 Sharon Laws (GBR) (1974-07-07)July 7, 1974 (aged 33)
 Katie Colclough[N 1] (GBR) (1990-01-20)January 20, 1990 (aged 17)
  1. Junior rider.

Season victories

Single day and stage races 2008[6]
Date Nation Race Cat. Winner
17 May France Stage 1 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin2.2 Nicole Cooke
9 September France Stage 1 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche2.2 Nicole Cooke
National, Continental, World and Olympic champions 2008[6]
Date Discipline Jersey Winner
28 March Track Cycling World Champion - Team pursuit United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
United Kingdom Wendy Houvenaghel
(with Rebecca Romero)
28 June British National Road Race Championships Nicole Cooke
10 August Olympic Champion – Women's road race - Nicole Cooke
7 September British National Time Trial Championships Nicole Cooke
September European Track Champion - Under-23 team pursuit United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead
United Kingdom Katie Colclough
United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
7 September European Track Champion - Under-23 scratch United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead
27 September World Champion – Women's road race Nicole Cooke

Results in major races

Results at the 2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup races
# Date Race Country Best rider Place
#1 24 February Geelong World Cup  Australia - -
#2 24 March Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio  Italy United Kingdom Nicole Cooke 20th
#3 6 April Tour of Flanders for Women  Belgium United Kingdom Nicole Cooke 16th
#4 12 April Ronde van Drenthe  Netherlands - -
#5 23 April La Flèche Wallonne Féminine  Belgium United Kingdom Nicole Cooke 8th
#6 4 May Tour de Berne   Switzerland - -
#7 31 May La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal  Canada - -
#8 30 July Open de Suède Vårgårda  Sweden - -
#9 1 August Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT  Sweden - -
#10 24 August GP de Plouay-Bretagne  France - -
#11 16 September Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt  Germany - -
Lizie Armitstead (left) won the silver medal behind Ellen van Dijk in the points race at the European Track Championships
Results in other major single day races
Date Race[M 1] Rider Place
28 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
United Kingdom Wendy Houvenaghel
(with Rebecca Romero)
1st, gold medalist(s)
29 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's points race United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead 19th
30 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead 7th
10 August Summer Olympics – Women's road race  Nicole Cooke (GBR) 1st, gold medalist(s)
3 September European Track Championships – Women's omnium Netherlands Ellen van Dijk 2nd, silver medalist(s)
September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 team pursuit United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead
United Kingdom Katie Colclough
United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
1st, gold medalist(s)
6 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 individual pursuit United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell 3rd, bronze medalist(s)
7 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 scratch Netherlands Lizzie Armitstead
Ex aequo with Ellen van Dijk
1st, gold medalist(s)
6 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 points race Netherlands Lizzie Armitstead 2nd, silver medalist(s)
24 September Road World Championships – Women's road race[7]  Nicole Cooke (GBR) 1st, gold medalist(s)
  1. Riders are in these championships part of the national team

UCI World Ranking

The team finished 10th in the UCI ranking for teams.[8]

Individual UCI World Ranking[8]
Rank Rider Points
4 United Kingdom Nicole Cooke 536
143 United Kingdom Sharon Laws 28
185 United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell 16
210 United Kingdom Jessica Allen 12
241United Kingdom Catherine Hare 10

References

  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7513637.stm
  2. http://www.teamhalfordsbikehut.com
  3. Pattenden, Mike (4 January 2009). "HEY, I'M WORTH A LOOK TOO - Nicole Cooke , the queen of road cycling, tells Mike Pattenden why she feels like Cinderella". The Sunday Times. (subscription required (help)).
  4. "UCI Team Members; 2008 season". UCI. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. 2008 » Team Halfords Bikehut Procyclingstats.com
  6. 1 2 "Team Halfords Bikehut (HBH) - UCI 2008". CQranking.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  7. "2008 75th World Championships WE - Road Race (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  8. 1 2 2008 UCI Road Rankings Women Elite
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