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Bradley Wiggins Biography

Bradley Wiggins is one of the most popular and richest Cyclist who was born on April 28, 1980 in Ghent, Belgium. He was one of the most powerful cyclists when He became one of the world’s most dominant cyclists after the career of Lance Armstrong started to plummet.’s career He became one of the world’s most dominant cyclists after the career of Lance Armstrong started to plummet. started to plummet.

Wiggins then rode the Tour de Romandie and the Giro d’Italia, as preparation for the Olympics in August. At the Giro he was part of the lead-out train that helped Cavendish win two stages. Wiggins came fourth in the final stage’s 28.5 km (17.7 mi)-long time trial in Milan, six seconds behind teammate Marco Pinotti, finishing the race in 134th place, three hours, one minute and 39 seconds down on overall winner Alberto Contador of Astana.

Early in the season, Wiggins rode the Tour of Qatar, in which he lost out on contention for the general classification after being caught out by a split in the peloton and then finished third in the race’s individual time trial stage behind Cancellara and Niki Terpstra, his first opportunity to wear his rainbow skinsuit. Wiggins then took part in the traditional opening race of the classics season, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, finishing 44th as his teammate Ian Stannard took victory.

He was married to Catherine Wiggins in 2004; the couple has two kids.

He took home his very first Olympic gold medal in the 2004 Olympics, and later took home two more medals in 2008.

In September Wiggins won the national time trial championship in Buckinghamshire, and in September at the road world championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, was on course for a bronze medal in the time trial, until a mechanical problem and a delay getting a replacement bike ended with him finishing in 21st place. In October he ended the season by winning the Herald Sun Tour in Victoria, Australia, after helping teammates for most of the race. He led the race after winning the time trial on stage five in Geelong, beating second-placed teammate Svein Tuft by fourteen seconds.

Bradley Wiggins Net Worth

Bradley is one of the richest Cyclist from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bradley Wiggins's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He began racing bicycles around the age 12.

Wiggins was born on 28 April 1980 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium, to an Australian father, Gary Wiggins, and a British mother, Linda. His father lived in Belgium as a professional cyclist. His father left the family when Wiggins was two. Wiggins moved with his mother to her parents’ house in Villiers Road, Willesden Green, north-west London, then to a Church Commission flat at Dibdin House estate in neighbouring Maida Vale. He was educated at St Augustine’s junior school and then St Augustine’s Church of England High School in Kilburn, where his mother was a secretary. He has a younger half-brother, Ryan, from his mother and her partner Brendan, who separated when Wiggins was in his late teens.

Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016. Nicknamed “Wiggo”, he began his cycling career on the track, but made the transition to road cycling and is one of the few cyclists in the modern era to gain significant elite level success in both those forms of professional cycling. He is the only rider to have combined winning both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road, as well as winning the Tour de France, and holding the iconic track hour record. In addition, he has worn the leader’s jersey in each of the three Grand Tours of cycling and held the world record in team pursuit on multiple occasions.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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On the road he won stage one of the Four Days of Dunkirk and the prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, before competing in the Tour de France and finishing fourth in the prologue in London. On stage six Wiggins launched a solo breakaway after 2 km (1.2 mi) of racing, leading the race for 190.5 km (118.4 mi), before being caught by the peloton with 7 km (4.3 mi) remaining. It was seen as a tribute to British rider Tom Simpson, on the 40th anniversary of his death in the 1967 Tour de France, but was a gift to his wife on her birthday, with Wiggins only finding out about the date’s significance after the race. He received the stage’s combativity award, for the most aggressive rider. Cofidis withdrew from the race before stage 16 after Cristian Moreni failed a doping test. Wiggins and his teammates were interviewed by police and had their hotel rooms searched. In the aftermath of the positive drug tests on Moreni and on race leader Alexander Vinokourov of Astana, Wiggins spoke out against dopers in the Tour and threw away his Cofidis kit in a bin in Pau Pyrénées Airport, vowing never to race for the team again.

Who is Bradley Wiggins Dating?

According to our records, Bradley Wiggins married to Catherine Wiggins . As of January 13, 2024, Bradley Wiggins’s is not dating anyone.

In 1992, aged 12, he entered his first race, the West London Challenge 92, on the unopened A312 dual carriageway in Hayes, west London. Later that year he broke a collarbone in a road accident. He received £1,700 compensation for his injuries. He gave his mother £700 and used the rest to buy his first racing bicycle. “At 12”, he recalled, “I told my art teacher, I’m going to be Olympic champion, I’m going to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour.” He joined the Archer Road Club, where his father had been a member in the late 1970s. He raced at Herne Hill Velodrome and on the road around Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. He gained domestic sponsorship from Condor Cycles’s Olympia Sport and then Team Brite. He represented Westminster in the London Youth Games as a teenager, and in 2010 he was inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Bradley Wiggins height 6 ft 3 in Bradley weight 69 kg & body measurements will update soon.

He is a well-known mod and owns a collection of classic motor scooters and guitars from the 1960s and 1970s. He is a keen musician and guitarist and in December 2012 he made a surprise appearance at a Paul Weller charity concert, playing guitar on “That’s Entertainment”; and together recorded a special for BBC Radio 6 Music discussing their love of music and mod culture, broadcast on Boxing Day. He supports Liverpool Football Club, Rangers Football Club and Wigan Warriors rugby league club, and in 2012 the latter gave him a life membership, which he described as his highlight of the year. Wiggins presented the winner of the European Super League’s 2012 Man of Steel Award to the Warriors player Sam Tomkins.

Football was his first passion and he was an Arsenal fan, although he would watch rivals Tottenham Hotspur play because his friends supported them. He discovered cycling when his mother told him to watch the television coverage of the individual pursuit final of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, which Briton Chris Boardman won. She explained it was one of the events at which his father had been successful. He watched the rest of the Olympics and fell in love with cycling and the Olympics itself.

Facts & Trivia

Bradley Ranked on the list of most popular Cyclist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Bradley Wiggins celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.

At 16, he won the 1 km (0.6 mi) time trial at the 1996 junior national track championships at Saffron Lane sports centre in Leicester. Selectors invited him to train at weekends at Manchester Velodrome. After leaving school he enrolled on a BTEC foundation course in business studies, but left due to cycling commitments. At the 1997 junior national track championships he won the one-kilometre time trial, 3 km (1.9 mi) individual pursuit, points race and scratch race. He was the only British competitor for the 1997 junior track world championships in Cape Town, coming 16th in the individual pursuit and fourth in the points race.

What does Bradley Wiggins do now?

Sir Bradley Wiggins has revealed his new career goal – to qualify as a doctor, and says that he has already begun his studies by distance learning.

Is Bradley Wiggins Belgian?

Bradley Wiggins, in full Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, byname Wiggo, (born April 28, 1980, Ghent, Belgium), Belgian-born British cyclist who was the first rider from the United Kingdom to win the Tour de France (2012).

How many Tour de France has Bradley Wiggins won?

2012 Tour de France

When was Bradley Wiggins knighted?

The cyclist is one of the few athletes to have both the honours, having received his SPOTY award in 2012 after his history-making Tour de France win, and his knighthood for services to cycling the following year.

How rich is Lance Armstrong?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Armstrong was worth approximately $125 million at the peak of his career. That has dropped considerably, but thanks to Uber, Lance Armstrong’s net worth is approximately $50 million today.

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