Steve Cummings

Steve Cummings
Cummings at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full nameStephen Philip Cummings
NicknameSteve-o
Born (1981-03-19) 19 March 1981 (age 43)
Clatterbridge, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight75 kg (165 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamIneos Grenadiers
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
Role
Rider type
Amateur team
Birkenhead North End CC
Professional teams
2005–2006Landbouwkrediet–Colnago
2007Discovery Channel
2008–2009Barloworld
2010–2011Team Sky
2012–2014BMC Racing Team[2]
2015–2019MTN–Qhubeka[3]
Managerial team
2021–Ineos Grenadiers
Major wins
Road

Grand Tours

Tour de France
2 individual stages (2015, 2016)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2012)

Stage races

Tour of Britain (2016)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2017)
National Time Trial Championships (2017)
Track
Team pursuit, World Championships (2005)
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games (2006)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Team pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Los Angeles Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2006 Bordeaux Team pursuit
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Melbourne Individual pursuit

Stephen Philip Cummings (born 19 March 1981[4]) is an English former racing cyclist,[5] who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Landbouwkrediet–Colnago, Discovery Channel, Barloworld, Team Sky, BMC Racing Team and Team Dimension Data squads, and rode for Great Britain at the Summer Olympic Games, the UCI Road World Championships, and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

During his professional road racing career, Cummings took seventeen victories, including Grand Tour stage wins at the 2012 Vuelta a España, the 2015 Tour de France and the 2016 Tour de France. He won both the British National Road Race Championships and the British National Time Trial Championships in 2017, and also won stages of the Tour of Beijing, Tirreno–Adriatico, Tour of the Basque Country and Critérium du Dauphiné races at UCI World Tour level. On the track, Cummings won gold medals in the team pursuit at both the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and a silver medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Since retiring from racing, Cummings has worked as a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[6]

  1. ^ a b "Athlete Biography – CUMMINGS Stephen". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 13 August 2008.
  2. ^ Bull, Nick (30 September 2011). "Steve Cummings leaves Sky for BMC Racing". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Dimension Data finalise 2019 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Steve Cummings". British Cycling. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  5. ^ Farrand, Stephen (26 November 2019). "Steve Cummings: The retirement interview". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  6. ^ Benson, Daniel (8 February 2021). "Steve Cummings signs with Ineos as development director and coach". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.