Team Halfords Bikehut
Team information
UCI codeHBH
RegisteredUnited Kingdom
Founded2008 (2008)
Disbanded2009
Discipline(s)Road with also riders active on the track
StatusUCI Women's Team
BicyclesBoardman Bike[1]
Key personnel
General managerDave Brailsford
2008 Team Halfords Bikehut
UCI Team ranking10th
Season victories
One-day racesRoad: 4
Track: 3
Stage race overall0
Stage race stages2
Best ranked riderNicole Cooke (4th)

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[2] 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,".[3]

Team roster

Ages as of 1 January 2008.[4][5]

Rider Date of birth
 Nicole Cooke (GBR) (1983-04-13)13 April 1983 (aged 24)
 Catherine Hare Willianson (GBR) (1982-03-13)13 March 1982 (aged 25)
 Jessica Allen (GBR) (1989-01-12)12 January 1989 (aged 18)
 Katie Curtis (GBR) (1988-11-01)1 November 1988 (aged 19)
 Tanja Slater (GBR) (1978-05-09)9 May 1978 (aged 29)
 Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR) (1974-11-27)27 November 1974 (aged 33)
Rider Date of birth
 Emma Trott (GBR) (1989-12-24)24 December 1989 (aged 18)
 Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) (1988-12-18)18 December 1988 (aged 19)
 Joanna Rowsell (GBR) (1988-12-05)5 December 1988 (aged 19)
 Helen Gaskell (GBR) (1983-01-16)16 January 1983 (aged 24)
 Sharon Laws (GBR) (1974-07-07)7 July 1974 (aged 33)
 Katie Colclough[N 1] (GBR) (1990-01-20)20 January 1990 (aged 17)
  1. Junior rider.

Season victories

Single day and stage races 2008[6]
DateNationRaceCat.Winner
17 May FranceStage 1 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin2.2Nicole Cooke
9 September FranceStage 1 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche2.2Nicole Cooke
National, Continental, World and Olympic champions 2008[6]
DateDisciplineJerseyWinner
28 MarchTrack Cycling World Champion – Team pursuitUnited Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
United Kingdom Wendy Houvenaghel
(with Rebecca Romero)
28 JuneBritish National Road Race ChampionshipsNicole Cooke
10 AugustOlympic Champion – Women's road raceNicole Cooke
7 SeptemberBritish National Time Trial ChampionshipsNicole Cooke
SeptemberEuropean Track Champion – Under-23 team pursuitUnited Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead
United Kingdom Katie Colclough
United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
7 SeptemberEuropean Track Champion – Under-23 scratchUnited Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead
27 SeptemberWorld Champion – Women's road raceNicole Cooke

Results in major races

Results at the 2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup races
# Date Race Country Best rider Place
#1 24 February Geelong World Cup  Australia - -
#2 24 March Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio  Italy United Kingdom Nicole Cooke 20th
#3 6 April Tour of Flanders for Women  Belgium United Kingdom Nicole Cooke 16th
#4 12 April Ronde van Drenthe  Netherlands - -
#5 23 April La Flèche Wallonne Féminine  Belgium United Kingdom Nicole Cooke 8th
#6 4 May Tour de Berne   Switzerland - -
#7 31 May Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal  Canada - -
#8 30 July Open de Suède Vårgårda  Sweden - -
#9 1 August Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT  Sweden - -
#10 24 August GP de Plouay – Bretagne  France - -
#11 16 September Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt  Germany - -
Lizie Armitstead (left) won the silver medal behind Ellen van Dijk in the points race at the European Track Championships
Results in other major single day races
Date Race[M 1] Rider Place
28 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
United Kingdom Wendy Houvenaghel
(with Rebecca Romero)
1st place, gold medalist(s)
29 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's points race United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead 19th
30 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead 7th
10 August Summer Olympics – Women's road race  Nicole Cooke (GBR) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
3 September European Track Championships – Women's omnium Netherlands Ellen van Dijk 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 team pursuit United Kingdom Lizzie Armitstead
United Kingdom Katie Colclough
United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell
1st place, gold medalist(s)
6 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 individual pursuit United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
7 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 scratch Netherlands Lizzie Armitstead
Ex aequo with Ellen van Dijk
1st place, gold medalist(s)
6 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 points race Netherlands Lizzie Armitstead 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
24 September Road World Championships – Women's road race[7]  Nicole Cooke (GBR) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
  1. Riders are in these championships part of the national team

UCI World Ranking

The team finished 10th in the UCI ranking for teams.[8]

Individual UCI World Ranking[8]
Rank Rider Points
4United Kingdom Nicole Cooke536
143United Kingdom Sharon Laws28
185United Kingdom Joanna Rowsell16
210United Kingdom Jessica Allen12
241United Kingdom Catherine Hare10

References

  1. "Cooke given new bike for Beijing". 18 July 2008.
  2. "Home". teamhalfordsbikehut.com.
  3. Pattenden, Mike (4 January 2009). "HEY, I'M WORTH A LOOK TOO – Nicole Cooke, the queen of road cycling, tells Mike Pattenden why she feels like Cinderella". The Sunday Times.
  4. "UCI Team Members; 2008 season". UCI. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. 2008  » Team Halfords Bikehut Procyclingstats.com
  6. 1 2 "Team Halfords Bikehut (HBH) - UCI 2008". CQranking.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  7. "2008 75th World Championships WE - Road Race (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  8. 1 2 2008 UCI Road Rankings Women Elite
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