Steve Cummings

Steve Cummings
	File:Steve Cummings (cropped).jpg Cummings at the 2008 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Philip Cummings
Nickname	Steve-o
Born	19 March 1981 (age 43); Clatterbridge, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team Dimension Data
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Rouleur
Amateur team(s)
–	Birkenhead North End CC
Professional team(s)
2005–2006	Landbouwkrediet–Colnago
2007	Discovery Channel
2008–2009	Barloworld
2010–2011	Team Sky
2012–2014	BMC Racing Team
2015–	Team Dimension Data
Major wins
	Road; Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2015) Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2012) Stage races Tour Méditerranéen (2014) Track UCI Track World Championships Team Pursuit (2005) Commonwealth Games Team Pursuit (2006)
Track cycling
	Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
	Representing England
Commonwealth Games
	Infobox last updated on; 1 January 2015

Stephen Philip "Steve" Cummings (born 19 March 1981^[2]) is an English racing cyclist for UCI Professional Continental team Team Dimension Data.^[3]

Biography

Cummings won the team pursuit at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He also took bronze in the individual pursuit. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens Cummings and the Great Britain team achieved a time of 3–59.

In 1999, riding for Birkenhead North End CC as a junior, aged 17, Cummings won the Eddie Soens Memorial Road Race, a handicap race open to all categories. It remains the only time in 46 years that a junior has won. He went on to take the British National Road Race Championships that year.

In 2006 he rode for Landbouwkrediet–Colnago and came second in the Trofeo Laigueglia to Alessandro Ballan of Lampre–Fondital. In 2007 he switched to Discovery Channel before moving to Barloworld in 2008.

His first professional win was in 2008, stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria.

Team Sky

Cummings at the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Cummings joined new British-based Team Sky for the 2010 season.

In 2011, racing with Sky, he had arguably his most successful professional race to date at the Tour of Algarve. He won stage three in a mountain-top finish ahead of Alberto Contador, taking the overall lead of the race which he held until the final time-trial; he finished the tour in seventh place.

In September, Cummings finished second overall in the Tour of Britain. Later that month he announced he would join BMC Racing Team for the 2012 season.^[3]

Cummings was part of the Great Britain team that helped Mark Cavendish win the 2011 UCI World Road Race Championship. He then finished 4th overall in the first Tour of Beijing.

BMC Racing Team

In February 2012, Cummings broke his pelvis in an accident while competing in the Tour of the Algarve.^[4] In April, bad luck struck again when he fractured his left wrist in the Tour of the Basque Country.^[5] He recuperated from those injuries and competed in the Tour de France, where he was a domestique to his leader Cadel Evans and finished 95th overall.^[6] In the 2012 Vuelta a España, he gained his first Grand Tour victory. On Stage 13, he broke away with six other riders after the first hour of racing. The break made it through on the mainly flat course and he attacked with about 4 km (2.5 mi) to race, creating a gap. He held on to his lead and won by four seconds over the two chasers, Cameron Meyer of Orica–GreenEDGE and Team Sky's Juan Antonio Flecha.^[7]

MTN-Qhubeka

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Cummings at the 2015 Tour de France

In October 2014, Cummings announced that he would be joining MTN-Qhubeka for the 2015 season.^[8]

On 18 July 2015, Cummings won stage 14 of the 2015 Tour de France, beating French riders Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet in Mende, 1.5 km after the Côte de la Croix Neuve category 2 climb. It was the first Tour de France stage win for both Cummings and his African team MTN-Qhubeka, fittingly coming on Nelson Mandela Day.^[9]