Graham Briggs

Graham Briggs (born 14 July 1983) is a British road racing cyclist, who currently rides for the British amateur team Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy.

Career

Born in Rossington, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Briggs initially played football as a youngster before switching to cycling, initially off-road as a cyclo-cross rider and then the discipline of mountain biking, until the foot and mouth crisis of 2001. He competed for Great Britain in the Under-23 road race at the 2003 UCI Road World Championships in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The majority of his road racing career has been spent in city centre competitions leading to successes in the Elite Circuit Race Series in recent years.

Briggs is classed as a sprinter and was the winner of the British National Circuit Race Championships in 2011.

Briggs left Team Raleigh at the end of the 2013 season and joined Rapha Condor–JLT for the 2014 season; his third spell with the latter squad.

Graham Briggs is a co-founder of the Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy with the mission "to move a generation of children, putting the bicycle back at the heart of childhood play, forming lifelong habits that will deliver benefits for health and the environment for years to come."

Major results

2001

3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships

2007

5th Overall Girvan Three Day

2008

3rd Blackpool Grand Prix Circuit Race

3rd Clayton Velo Spring Classic

7th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher

8th National Criterium Championships

2009

1st Round 1 – Milton Keynes, Tour Series

1st Stage 2 Girvan Three Day

2nd Blackburn Grand Prix

4th Brighouse Circuit Race

4th Warwick Town Centre Race

7th Colne Grand Prix

8th East Yorkshire Classic Circuit Race

10th Tour of the Reservoir

2010

2nd Blackburn Grand Prix

3rd Dumfries Bike Fest Grand Prix

7th Dumfries Elite Circuit Series Race

7th Newport Nocturne

2011

1st National Criterium Championships

2nd Wales Open Criterium

2nd Glade Spring Road Race

4th Smithfield Nocturne

6th Jock Wadley Memorial

2012

1st Overall British Cycling Elite Circuit Race Series 1st Brighouse Circuit Race 1st Wales Open Criterium 2nd Colne Grand Prix 5th East Yorkshire Classic

10th Sheffrec CC Spring Road Race

2013

2nd Monsal Hill-Climb

4th Colne Grand Prix

4th Wales Open Criterium

10th Ryedale Grand Prix

2014

1st Overall Tour du Loir et Cher 1st Stage 3

1st Legstretchers Memorial to Betty Pharoah Road Race

1st Round 2 – Barrow-in-Furness, Tour Series

1st Milk Race

1st Colne Grand Prix