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Connor Swift
British cyclist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Connor Swift (born 30 October 1995) is an English racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[5]
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Since turning professional, Swift has taken three wins in road racing – the 2018 British National Road Race Championships, the 2021 Tro-Bro Léon and the 2021 Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine. In gravel racing, Swift has won a bronze medal at the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships in Italy, and won the British National Championships in 2024.
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Amateur teams and Madison Genesis (2015–2019)
Born in Bath, Somerset,[2] Swift rode for the Polypipe and Envelopemaster Giant Sheffield amateur teams before joining UCI Continental team Madison Genesis for the 2017 season.[6] In his first year with the team, Swift won two rounds of the Tour Series criterium competition – held in Bath and Stevenage respectively[7] – and he also placed seventh in the Velothon Wales one-day race. In the early part of 2018, Swift finished second to Matteo Moschetti on the final stage of the Tour de Normandie,[8] and finished fourth in the Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic, having suffered a late puncture.[9] He ultimately took his first professional victory later in the season, as he won the British National Road Race Championships in Stamfordham, soloing away from a lead group with 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) remaining to become the first UCI Continental rider to win the title since Kristian House in 2009.[10][11]
Having taken a second-place overall finish at the Kreiz Breizh Elites in July – and finishing in the same time as overall winner Damien Touzé[12] – Swift was announced as a stagiaire by Team Dimension Data,[13] riding for the team at all his remaining starts in 2018, with the exception of the Tour of Britain.[14] He remained with Madison Genesis into the first part of the 2019 season, where he recorded top-ten overall finishes at both the Tour de Normandie and the Tour de Yorkshire,[15][16] before winning the opening round of the Tour Series in Redditch.[15]
Arkéa–Samsic (2019–2022)
Following his early season performances in 2019, Swift made a mid-season move to UCI Professional Continental team Arkéa–Samsic, with a role as a domestique for the squad's main sprinter, André Greipel.[17] He made his first start with the team at the Four Days of Dunkirk,[15] and just missed a top-ten overall placing at the Tour of Belgium, in eleventh position.[18] The following year, Swift made his Grand Tour début at the Tour de France,[19] finishing inside the top 20 places on the opening stage of the race.[20]
Swift took his first victory with the team at the 2021 Tro-Bro Léon, winning a group sprint of five riders in Lannilis,[21] to become the first British rider to win the race. He then followed this up with top-ten results at both Dwars door het Hageland (sixth) and the Tour of Belgium (seventh).[22][23] He rode the Tour de France for the second successive year, featuring as part of the breakaway on the opening stage of the race in Brittany. Later in the season, he won his first stage race at the Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine; he took the overall lead following the stage four individual time trial,[24] and maintained this through the final stage the following day.[25] He also recorded a top-five finish in the Bretagne Classic Ouest-France,[26] finishing as part of the first chase group. In 2022, he recorded top-ten finishes in early-season races in France and Spain, finishing seventh overall at Étoile de Bessèges,[27] and fifth at the Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior.[28] Later in the season, he was unable to defend his previous victories from 2021, finishing third at Tro-Bro Léon – won by teammate Hugo Hofstetter[29] – and fifth overall at the Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Ineos Grenadiers (2023–present)
Swift signed an initial two-year contract to join the Ineos Grenadiers for the 2023 season.[30] His best results on the roads were a third-place finish at the British National Time Trial Championships,[31] and a fourth-place finish in the general classification at the Tour de Wallonie. He did, however, win a round of the UCI Gravel World Series, when he won The Gralloch event in Gatehouse of Fleet.[32] He followed this up with a second-place finish to Joseph Blackmore at the British National Gravel Championships,[33] before finishing third at the UCI Gravel World Championships in Italy.[34] Having extended his contract for a further two years in summer 2024,[35] Swift improved on his National Gravel Championships result from the previous year, winning the race by around three minutes.[36] He won the Graean Cymru UCI Gravel World Series race in Llyn Brenig – ahead of cousin Ben Swift[37] – before the UCI Gravel World Championships in Belgium, where he would ultimately finish in sixth position.[38]
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Personal life
Swift grew up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and attended Trinity Academy, Thorne.[39] His cousin, Ben Swift, is also a professional cyclist.[6]
Major results
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Source: [40]
Gravel
- 2023
- 1st Gatehouse of Fleet, UCI Gravel World Series
- 2nd National Championships
- 3rd
UCI World Championships - 2024
- 1st
National Championships - 1st Llyn Brenig, UCI Gravel World Series
- 6th UCI World Championships
Mountain bike
- 2021
- 3rd Marathon, National Championships
Road
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- 2017
- Tour Series
- 1st Bath
- 1st Stevenage
- 7th Velothon Wales
- 2018 (1 pro win)
- 1st Road race, National Championships
- 2nd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 4th Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic
- 5th Overall Tour of the Reservoir
- 5th Polynormande
- 2019
- 1st Redditch, Tour Series
- 9th Overall Tour de Yorkshire
- 9th Overall Tour de Normandie
- 2021 (2)
- 1st
Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine - 1st Tro-Bro Léon
- 5th Bretagne Classic
- 6th Dwars door het Hageland
- 7th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 2022
- 3rd Tro-Bro Léon
- 5th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- 5th Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior
- 7th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 2023
- 3rd Time trial, National Championships
- 4th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 2024
- National Championships
- 4th Road race
- 5th Time trial
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
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