Steve Cummings

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Steve Cummings

Personal information
Full name	Steve Cummings
Born	19 March 1981 (1981-03-19) Clatterbridge, Wirral, United Kingdom
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	75 kg (170 lb)
Team information
Current team	BMC Racing Team
Discipline	Road & Track
Role	Rider
Amateur team(s)
Birkenhead North End CC
Professional team(s)
2005–2006 2007 2008–2009 2010–2011 2012–	Landbouwkrediet-Colnago Discovery Channel Barloworld Team Sky BMC Racing Team
Major wins
2005 Team Pursuit World Champion 2006 Team Pursuit Commonwealth Games
Medal record Track cycling Competitor for Great Britain Olympic Games Silver 2004 Athens Team Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Championships Gold 2005 Los Angeles Team Pursuit Competitor for England Commonwealth Games Gold 2006 Melbourne Team Pursuit
Infobox last updated on 1 January 2012

Stephen Philip "Steve" Cummings (born 19 March 1981) is an English racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team BMC Racing Team.

Biography

Cummings won the team pursuit at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He also took bronze in the individual pursuit. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens Cummings and the Great Britain team achieved a time of 3–59.

In 1999, riding for Birkenhead North End CC as a junior, aged 17, Cummings won the Eddie Soens Memorial Road Race, a handicap race open to all categories. It remains the only time in 46 years that a junior has won. He went on to take the British National Road Race Championships that year.

In 2006 he rode for Landbouwkrediet-Colnago and came second in the Trofeo Laigueglia to Alessandro Ballan of Lampre-Fondital. In 2007 he switched to Discovery Channel before moving to Barloworld in 2008.

His first professional win was in 2008, stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria.

Team Sky

Cummings in Stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Cummings joined new British-based Team Sky for the 2010 season.

In 2011, racing with Sky, he had arguably his most successful professional race to date at the Tour of Algarve. He won stage three in a mountain-top finish ahead of Alberto Contador, taking the overall lead of the race which he held until the final time-trial; he finished the tour in seventh place.

In September, Cummings finished second overall in the Tour of Britain. Later that month he announced he would join BMC Racing Team for the 2012 season.

Cummings was part of the Great Britain team that helped Mark Cavendish win the 2011 UCI World Road Race Championship. He then finished 4th overall in the first Tour of Beijing.

BMC Racing Team

In February 2012, Cummings broke his pelvis in an accident while competing in the Tour of the Algarve.

Major results

1999

1st Eddie Soens Memorial Road Race

1st Junior British National Road Race Championships

2001

1st Team Pursuit British National Track Championships

2004

2nd Team Pursuit Olympic Games

2005

1st Team Pursuit Track World Championships

1st Team Pursuit, British National Track Championships

2nd British National Road Race Championships

2006

1st Team Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games

1st Team Pursuit British National Track Championships

2008

1st Stage 2 Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

1st Coppa Bernocchi

2nd Overall Tour of Denmark

2nd Stage 5

2nd Overall, Tour of Britain

4th Stage 19 Giro d'Italia

11th Time trial, 2008 Summer Olympics

2009

1st Day 3 Giro del Capo

2010

4th Overall GP Cycliste la Marseillaise

15th Overall Vuelta a Andalucia

2011

1st Stage 3, Volta ao Algarve

2nd British National Time Trial Championships

2nd Overall, Tour of Britain

4th Overall, Tour of Beijing

External links

• Steve Cummings profile at Cycling Archives

Media related to Steve Cummings at Wikimedia Commons