Daniel Bigham
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Full name | Daniel John Bigham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Newcastle-under-Lyme, England | 2 October 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2016 | Planet X–Northside | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Brother DriverPlan NRG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | Ribble Pro Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2019–2021 | Ribble Pro Cycling[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniel John Bigham (born 2 October 1991) is a British racing cyclist,[2] who rode for UCI Continental team Ribble Weldtite from 2018 until 2021.[3] He rode in the men's individual pursuit event at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[4]
Starting in 2022, he also works for Ineos Grenadiers as a performance engineer, helping the riders on the team improve their aerodynamic performance.[5][6] At the 2022 British National Track Championships in Newport, Wales he won another British title after winning the pursuit title.[7]
Alongside Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Vernon and Oliver Wood, Bigham won silver in the team pursuit at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[8]
Hour record
On 1 October 2021 Bigham rode 54.723 km (34.003 mi) at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen (Switzerland) to break Bradley Wiggins's British national hour record.[9] He was ineligible to attempt the UCI record because he was not enrolled in the UCI's Registered Testing Pool anti-doping system, including a biological passport.[10] While all World Tour riders and ProTeam riders are in the testing pool, Bigham estimated it would cost him £8,000 to join as an individual.[11]
On August 19, 2022 Bigham broke the hour record with a distance of 55.548 km at the Grenchen Velodrome in Switzerland.[12] Bigham held the record for just shy of two months; Filippo Ganna registered 56.792 km in October 2022, surpassing Bigham's mark by more than 1 km.[13] Bigham was a central part of the team in Ganna's attempt, [14] using the engineering knowledge he had developed in his own record to aid Ganna.
Personal life
Bigham's partner is fellow cyclist Joss Lowden, former holder of the women's hour record.[15][11]
Major results
- 2016
- 3rd Beaumont Trophy
- 2017
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit
- 1st
Kilo
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 1st
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup, Minsk
- 2018
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup, London
- 2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2019
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 3rd
Team relay, UCI Road World Championships
- 4th Beaumont Trophy
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2020
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 2nd Kilo
- 3rd Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2021
- British hour record: 54.723 km
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2022
- Hour record: 55.548 km
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
References
- ^ "Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ "Daniel Bigham". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ "Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 23 February 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- ^ "Start list". tissottiming.com. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ Benson, Daniel. "Dan Bigham joins technical staff at Ineos Grenadiers". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Dan Bigham". Ineos Grenadiers.com. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "2022 National Track Championships". British Cycling. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "Men's 4000m Team Pursuit - Finals - Gold". Birmingham 2022 Detailed Results. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Dan Bigham breaks Bradley Wiggins' British Hour Record". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ "Inside UCI". Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Dowsett: It's desperately unfair that Bigham can't go for official Hour Record". 28 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Dan Bigham sets new UCI Hour Record of 55.548km". VeloNews.com. 19 August 2022.
- ^ "Filippo Ganna smashes cycling's hour world record". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ Fletcher, Patrick. "Project Ganna – Dan Bigham the mastermind of plot to take down his own Hour Record". Cycling News. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "News: Joss Lowden Breaks Women's Hour Record". 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
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- Living people
- British male cyclists
- Sportspeople from Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- 20th-century British people
- 21st-century British people
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)