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 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,".
Team roster
Ages as of 1 January 2008.2008 » Team Halfords Bikehut Procyclingstats.com
Male riders: Tom Southam, Rob Hayles
Season victories
+Single day and stage races 2008 Date Nation Race Cat. Winner17 May Stage 1 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin2.2 Nicole Cooke9 September Stage 1 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche2.2 Nicole Cooke
+National, Continental, World and Olympic champions 2008 Date Discipline Jersey Winner 28 March Track Cycling World Champion – Team pursuit Joanna Rowsell 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 Lizzie Armitstead Katie Colclough Joanna Rowsell 7 September European Track Champion – Under-23 scratch 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#DateRaceCountryBest riderPlace#1Geelong World Cup - -#2Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio Nicole Cooke 20th#3Tour of Flanders for Women Nicole Cooke 16th#4Ronde van Drenthe - -#5La Flèche Wallonne Féminine Nicole Cooke 8th#6Tour de Berne - -#7Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal - -#8Open de Suède Vårgårda - -#9Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT - -#10GP de Plouay – Bretagne - -#11Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt - -
+Results in other major single day racesDateRaceRiderPlace 28 MarchTrack Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit Joanna Rowsell Wendy Houvenaghel(with Rebecca Romero) 29 MarchTrack Cycling World Championships – Women's points race Lizzie Armitstead 19th 30 MarchTrack Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch Lizzie Armitstead 7th10 AugustSummer Olympics – Women's road race 3 SeptemberEuropean Track Championships – Women's omnium Ellen van Dijk SeptemberEuropean Track Championships – Women's under-23 team pursuit Lizzie Armitstead Katie Colclough Joanna Rowsell 6 SeptemberEuropean Track Championships – Women's under-23 individual pursuit Joanna Rowsell 7 SeptemberEuropean Track Championships – Women's under-23 scratch Lizzie ArmitsteadEx aequo with Ellen van Dijk 6 SeptemberEuropean Track Championships – Women's under-23 points race Lizzie Armitstead 24 SeptemberRoad World Championships – Women's road race
UCI World Ranking
The team finished 10th in the UCI ranking for teams.
+ Individual UCI World Ranking Rank Rider Points4 Nicole Cooke 536143 Sharon Laws 28185 Joanna Rowsell 16210 Jessica Allen 12241 Catherine Hare 10
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