Daniel Bigham
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]
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Full name | Daniel John Bigham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Newcastle-under-Lyme, England | 2 October 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Time trialist (road), Pursuitist (track) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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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.
Ganna and Bigham would meet in the final of the individual pursuit at the 2023 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, with Ganna edging Bigham for gold by a fraction of a second.
Personal life
Bigham's partner is fellow cyclist Joss Lowden, former holder of the women's hour record.[15][11]
Major results
Road
- 2016
- 3rd Beaumont Trophy
- 2019
- 3rd
Team relay, UCI Road World Championships
- 4th Beaumont Trophy
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2021
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2022
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
Track
- 2017
- National Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit
- 1st
Kilo
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 1st
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Minsk
- 2018
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, London
- 2nd Individual pursuit, National Championships
- 2019
- National Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2020
- National Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 2nd Kilo
- 3rd Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2021
- British hour record: 54.723 km
- 2022
- Hour record: 55.548 km
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit, National Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
- 2023
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Milton
- UEC European Championships
- 2nd
Individual pursuit
- 2nd
Team pursuit
- 2nd
- 2nd
Individual pursuit, UCI World 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.
- "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.
External links

- Daniel Bigham at UCI
- Daniel Bigham at Cycling Archives
- Daniel Bigham at ProCyclingStats
- Daniel Bigham at Cycling Quotient
- Daniel Bigham at CycleBase