British cyclist

Roger Hammond (born 30 January 1974) is a male English retired bicycle racer, specialising in cyclo-cross and road cycling.

Contents

• 1 Education
• 2 Cycling career
• 3 Post cycling
• 4 Major results
  • 4.1 Cyclo-cross
  • 4.2 Road
    • 4.2.1 Cl*ic results timeline
• 5 References

Education

Hammond grew up in Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School as a teenager. While still at school he won the 1992 world junior cyclo-cross championship in Leeds, but elected to concentrate on his university studies before pursuing a cycling career.

Cycling career

Hammond represented England in the road race event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He repeated this achievement four years later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

He was the British road champion in 2003 and 2004. He rode for Discovery Channel in 2005–2006, for Team High Road in 2007–2008, for Cervélo TestTeam in 2009–2010, and Garmin–Cervélo in 2011. Hammond rode for the Great Britain team in the 2005 and 2006 Tour of Britain.

Post cycling

In July 2012 Roger Hammond was announced as the Team Manager of the newly formed Madison-Genesis team. In November 2015 he announced that he would join Team Dimension Data as a sports director for the 2016 season, initially combining the position with his Madison-Genesis role. He returned to Madison-Genesis for the team's last season in 2019.

Hammond was in December 2019 named as performance director for the Bahrain-McLaren team for the 2020 season.

He joined the Ineos Grenadiers in October 2021 as head of racing.

Hammond has also worked as a pundit for ITV4, providing *ysis of the Vuelta a España.

Major results

Cyclo-cross

1991–19921st UCI World Junior Championships1993–19941st National Championships1999–20001st National Championships2000–20011st National Championships2001–20021st National ChampionshipsNational Trophy Series1st Leicestershire1st London2002–20031st National Championships2003–20041st National ChampionshipsNational Trophy Series1st Leicestershire2005–20061st National Championships2007–20081st National Championships2008–20093rd National Championships

Road

19982nd Road race, National Road Championships20001st Archer Grand Prix1st Grand Prix Bodson2nd Grand Prix Fayt-Le-Franc3rd Schaal Sels10th Gent–Wevelgem20011st Textielprijs Vichte2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal4th Le Samyn5th Schaal Sels20021st Tour Beneden-Maas1st Grote 1-MeiPrijs1st Sprints cl*ification, Tour of Rhodes4th Road race, National Road Championships5th Schaal Sels20031st Road race, National Road Championships1st Overall Uniqa Cl*ic1st Points cl*ification1st Stage 22nd GP Jef Scherens Leuven2nd Stage 5 Étoile de Bessèges8th Gent–Wevelgem8th Paris–Bourges20041st Road race, National Road Championships3rd Paris–Roubaix3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen3rd Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens6th Le Samyn6th Gent–Wevelgem7th Road race, Olympic Games20051st Stage 2 Tour of Britain2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs20061st Stage 2 Tour of Britain2nd Road race, National Road Championships20072nd Gent–Wevelgem200810th Gent–Wevelgem20093rd Overall Tour of Qatar1st Stage 23rd Overall Tour of Denmark3rd Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole4th Paris–Bourges5th Road race, National Road Championships20104th Paris–Roubaix7th Tour of Flanders

Cl*ic results timeline

Roger Hammond in the 2006 Tour of Britain in London

References