Steve Cummings

Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Steve Cummings

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fullname = Steve Cummings
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1981|3|11
country = ENG
GBR
height = convert|1.90|m|ftin|abbr=oncite web| url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/3/225153.shtml| title=Athlete Biography - CUMMINGS Stephen| publisher=Beijing Olympics official website]
weight = convert|75|kg|abbr=on
currentteam = Barloworld
discipline = Road & Track
role = Rider
ridertype =
amateuryears =
amateurteams = Birkenhead North End CC
proyears = 2005–2006
2007
2008–
proteams = Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
Barloworld
majorwins = flagiconUCI 2005 Team Pursuit World Champion
2006 Team Pursuit Commonwealth Games
updated = February 12 2008
medaltemplates =

Stephen Philip (Steve) Cummings (born 19 March 1981 in Clatterbridge, Wirral) is a British racing cyclist for Barloworld on track and road. 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.

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.

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

Major results

;1999 :1st Eddie Soens Memorial Road Race:1st British National Road Race Championships - Junior;2001:1st Team Pursuit, British National Track Championships;2004:2nd Team Pursuit, Olympic Games, Athens;2005:1st Team Pursuit, Track World Championships, Los Angeles:1st Team Pursuit, British National Track Championships:2nd British National Road Race Championships;2006:1st Team Pursuit, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne:1st Team Pursuit, British National Track Championships:3rd Pursuit, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne;2008:1st Stage 2, Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria:4th Stage 19, 2008 Giro d'Italia:Tour of Denmark::2nd Overall::2nd Stage 5 :11th Time trial, 2008 Summer Olympics:1st Coppa Bernocchi:2nd Overall, Tour of Britain

External links

* [http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/news/2005/03_March/TrackWorlds/Rider_SteveCummings.htm British cycling profile]

Persondata
NAME= Cummings, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH=1981-03-19
PLACE OF BIRTH=Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=