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 at the end of the 2013 season and joined for the 2014 season; his third spell with the latter squad.

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

2nd Wales Open Criterium 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 2014

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 1st Wales Open Criterium 2nd National Criterium Championships 2nd Eddie Soens Memorial 2nd Newport Nocturne 3rd Beverley Grand Prix 3rd Jock Wadley Memorial Road Race 5th Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic 10th Stockton Grand Prix 2015 1st Chepstow Grand Prix 1st Wales Open Criterium 2nd National Criterium Championships 3rd Stockton Grand Prix 3rd Grand Prix of Wales 3rd Hitter Road Race 8th Leicester Castle Classic 2016 1st Round 3 - Edinburgh, Tour Series

2nd - Aberystwyth, Tour Series 3rd - Stevenage, Tour Series 1st - Colne, Tour Series 2nd - Stage 2, Tour of Britain 2017 1st - Croyden, Tour Series 3rd - Stevenage, Tour Series 3rd - Rydale Grand Prix 2nd - London Nocturne 2018 9th - Prologue, Herald Sun Tour 3rd - Aberystwyth, Tour Series 1st - Rydale Grand Prix