Embellished British bike owner Lizzie Deignan MBE will retire on the finish of the 2025 season as she “doesn’t want to say goodbye to her kids anymore.”
Deignan’s accolades embody profitable the street race on the World Championships within the USA in 2015 and incomes a silver medal in the identical occasion on the London 2012 Olympics.
She additionally claimed gold within the street race on the 2014 Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow.
The 35-year-old mom of two, who has signed a brand new one-year cope with workforce Lidl-Trek, mentioned in a video on social media: “I’m going to retire at the end of 2025.
“My youngsters are… I simply do not wish to say goodbye to them anymore. [I have] no ego or necessity to retire on the prime.
“I’m ready to go full circle and be someone who helps people win bike races again. If I can help the next champions of the sport, then I’m delighted to be a part of that.”
Deignan, beforehand referred to as Armitstead earlier than marrying skilled bike owner Gary Deignan in 2016, was the primary to win all three of biking’s main one-day races – Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
Her victory within the inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2021 helped seal her place among the many better of her technology after she broke away to win with over 80 kilometres remaining.
Deignan twice gained the ladies’s Tour of Britain and the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, whereas she is a three-time winner of the Grand-Prix de Plouay.
Nice Britain efficiency director Stephen Park mentioned: “Lizzie is one of Britain’s most decorated and influential cyclists and will be remembered for a boundary-pushing career of iconic cycling moments.
“Whether or not it is representing her nation on the highest stage or performing on the forefront of the ladies’s professional peloton, Lizzie has performed all of it.
“What stands out most in Lizzie is her impact across the entire women’s peloton, and the work she’s done to pave the way for many young riders.
“Her iconic performances on the bike and advocacy for ladies’s sport off the bike have impressed many, and she or he has been cited because the direct inspiration for lots of the younger girls developing by means of the GB Biking Staff pathway.”
