Team Halfords Bikehut was a 2008 UCI elite women's cycling team based in the United Kingdom. The team was formed in January 2008 with Dave Brailsford, performance director of British Cycling, the general manager. It had been a pro/national team mooted as the first full British professional women's team[2] but there were two men in the team (Rob Hayles and Tom Southam). The team was in 2009 not an UCI Women's Teams anymore and consisted of a mix of mountain bikers and road racers (mainly men): Rob Hayles, Ed Clancy, Ian Wilkinson, Andy Tennant, Mark McNally, Rob Partridge, Seb Batchelor, David Fletcher, Annie Last, Sharon Laws, Ian Bibby. The team disbanded ahead of the 2010 season, with a number of riders moving to the Scottish-based Endura Racing team.

Team Halfords Bikehut
Team information
UCI codeHBH
RegisteredUnited Kingdom
Founded2008 (2008)
Disbanded2009
Discipline(s)Road with also riders active on the track
StatusUCI Women's Team
BicyclesBoardman Bike[1]
Key personnel
General managerDave Brailsford
2008 Team Halfords Bikehut
UCI Team ranking10th
Season victories
One-day racesRoad: 4
Track: 3
Stage race overall0
Stage race stages2
Best ranked riderNicole Cooke (4th)

The team helped train some of the UK's medal-winning cyclists such as Nicole Cooke, who said: "Setting up Team Halfords was crucial to my success,".[3]

Team roster

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Ages as of 1 January 2008.[4][5]

Rider Date of birth
  Nicole Cooke (GBR) (1983-04-13)13 April 1983 (aged 24)
  Catherine Hare Willianson (GBR) (1982-03-13)13 March 1982 (aged 25)
  Jessica Allen (GBR) (1989-01-12)12 January 1989 (aged 18)
  Katie Curtis (GBR) (1988-11-01)1 November 1988 (aged 19)
  Tanja Slater (GBR) (1978-05-09)9 May 1978 (aged 29)
  Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR) (1974-11-27)27 November 1974 (aged 33)
Rider Date of birth
  Emma Trott (GBR) (1989-12-24)24 December 1989 (aged 18)
  Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) (1988-12-18)18 December 1988 (aged 19)
  Joanna Rowsell (GBR) (1988-12-05)5 December 1988 (aged 19)
  Helen Gaskell (GBR) (1983-01-16)16 January 1983 (aged 24)
  Sharon Laws (GBR) (1974-07-07)7 July 1974 (aged 33)
  Katie Colclough[N 1] (GBR) (1990-01-20)20 January 1990 (aged 17)
  1. ^ Junior rider.

Season victories

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Single day and stage races 2008[6]
Date Nation Race Cat. Winner
17 May   France Stage 1 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin 2.2 Nicole Cooke
9 September   France Stage 1 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche 2.2 Nicole Cooke
National, Continental, World and Olympic champions 2008[6]
Date Discipline Jersey Winner
28 March Track Cycling World Champion – Team pursuit     Joanna Rowsell
  Wendy Houvenaghel
(with Rebecca Romero)
28 June British National Road Race Championships   Nicole Cooke
10 August Olympic Champion – Women's road race Nicole Cooke
7 September British National Time Trial Championships   Nicole Cooke
September European Track Champion – Under-23 team pursuit     Lizzie Armitstead
  Katie Colclough
  Joanna Rowsell
7 September European Track Champion – Under-23 scratch     Lizzie Armitstead
27 September World Champion – Women's road race   Nicole Cooke

Results in major races

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Results at the 2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup races
# Date Race Country Best rider Place
#1 24 February Geelong World Cup   Australia - -
#2 24 March Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio   Italy   Nicole Cooke 20th
#3 6 April Tour of Flanders for Women   Belgium   Nicole Cooke 16th
#4 12 April Ronde van Drenthe   Netherlands - -
#5 23 April La Flèche Wallonne Féminine   Belgium   Nicole Cooke 8th
#6 4 May Tour de Berne    Switzerland - -
#7 31 May Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal   Canada - -
#8 30 July Open de Suède Vårgårda   Sweden - -
#9 1 August Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT   Sweden - -
#10 24 August GP de Plouay – Bretagne   France - -
#11 16 September Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt   Germany - -
 
Lizie Armitstead (left) won the silver medal behind Ellen van Dijk in the points race at the European Track Championships
Results in other major single day races
Date Race[M 1] Rider Place
28 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit   Joanna Rowsell
  Wendy Houvenaghel
(with Rebecca Romero)
 
29 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's points race   Lizzie Armitstead 19th
30 March Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch   Lizzie Armitstead 7th
10 August Summer Olympics – Women's road race   Nicole Cooke (GBR)  
3 September European Track Championships – Women's omnium   Ellen van Dijk  
September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 team pursuit   Lizzie Armitstead
  Katie Colclough
  Joanna Rowsell
 
6 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 individual pursuit   Joanna Rowsell  
7 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 scratch   Lizzie Armitstead
Ex aequo with Ellen van Dijk
 
6 September European Track Championships – Women's under-23 points race   Lizzie Armitstead  
24 September Road World Championships – Women's road race[7]   Nicole Cooke (GBR)  
  1. ^ Riders are in these championships part of the national team

UCI World Ranking

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The team finished 10th in the UCI ranking for teams.[8]

Individual UCI World Ranking[8]
Rank Rider Points
4   Nicole Cooke 536
143   Sharon Laws 28
185   Joanna Rowsell 16
210   Jessica Allen 12
241   Catherine Hare 10

References

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  1. ^ "Cooke given new bike for Beijing". 18 July 2008.
  2. ^ "Home". teamhalfordsbikehut.com.
  3. ^ Pattenden, Mike (4 January 2009). "HEY, I'M WORTH A LOOK TOO – Nicole Cooke, the queen of road cycling, tells Mike Pattenden why she feels like Cinderella". The Sunday Times.[dead link]
  4. ^ "UCI Team Members; 2008 season". UCI. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. ^ 2008  » Team Halfords Bikehut Procyclingstats.com
  6. ^ a b "Team Halfords Bikehut (HBH) - UCI 2008". CQranking.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  7. ^ "2008 75th World Championships WE - Road Race (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  8. ^ a b 2008 UCI Road Rankings Women Elite