# Team Wiggins Le Col

Team Wiggins Le Col (UCI team code: WGN), also known as Team Wiggins in media, was a professional developmental cycling team based in the United Kingdom, which began competing in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling in 2015. The team folded at the end of the 2019 season after completing the Tour of Britain.

## Team history

The team was founded by Bradley Wiggins, after much speculation in the latter part of the 2014 road season, in order to better facilitate his return to the track as part of his preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games.
The team has a reported budget of £460,000 which is comparable to JLT–Condor and Madison-Genesis. According to Cycling Weekly the team's management comprises Robert Dodds (president of XIX Entertainment, and Wiggins's manager), Andrew McQuaid (rider agent and director of Trinity Sports Management) and Wiggins himself. The team appointed former Wiggle–Honda DS Simon Cope as its first directeur sportif .
For the team's inaugural season the team began with eight full-time riders, with Wiggins joining on 1 May 2015. Those eight were Steven Burke, Mark Christian, Jonathan Dibben, Owain Doull, Daniel Patten, Iain Paton, Andy Tennant and Michael Thompson. These eight riders are supplemented by riders from the British Academy on a race to race basis. On 5 January 2015 the team was officially awarded its UCI Continental licence.
In March 2015, Bradley Wiggins confirmed that he would make his debut with the team at the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire at the start of May. In 2016, he entered the Tour De Yorkshire with his team and dropped out in the first stage. WIGGINS was not invited to the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire. In 2018 following the collapse of Team Aqua Blue Sport, Team Wiggins participated at short notice in the 2018 Tour of Britain. Tom Pidcock was the team's highest placed rider in the race at 17th in the General Classification.
In November 2018 the team filed paperwork with Companies House which indicated that XIX Entertainment no longer held a 40 per cent stake in the team, and that this share had been transferred to Wiggins' firm, Wiggins Right Limited.
In August 2019, Wiggins announced that the team would closing down at the end of the year.

## Sponsorship

Sky was the team's original sponsor. The team's kit was initially produced by Rapha. but as of 2018 the team switched to use Le Col as their clothing supplier. In December 2018 Wiggins announced that Le Col would step up to becoming the team's co-title sponsor for 2019, with the team being known as Team Wiggins Le Col. The team used Pinarello bikes equipped with Zipp, Fizik, Elite and SRAM components.

## Final roster

    As of 30 September 2019.
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Lawrence Carpenter (GBR) | Lawrence Carpenter (GBR) | (1993-08-02)2 August 1993 (aged 26) |
| Mark Christian (GBR) | Mark Christian (GBR) | (1990-11-20)20 November 1990 (aged 28) |
| Gabriel Cullaigh (GBR) | Gabriel Cullaigh (GBR) | (1996-04-08)8 April 1996 (aged 23) |
| Mark Donovan (GBR) | Mark Donovan (GBR) | (1999-04-03)3 April 1999 (aged 20) |
| James Fouché (NZL) | James Fouché (NZL) | (1998-03-28)28 March 1998 (aged 21) |
| Ben Healy (IRL) | Ben Healy (IRL) | (2000-09-11)11 September 2000 (aged 19) |
| Samuel Jenner (AUS) | Samuel Jenner (AUS) | (1997-04-02)2 April 1997 (aged 22) |
| Corentin Navarro (FRA) | Corentin Navarro (FRA) | (1997-11-29)29 November 1997 (aged 21) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Michael O'Loughlin (IRL) | Michael O'Loughlin (IRL) | (1997-02-14)14 February 1997 (aged 22) |
| Tom Pidcock (GBR) | Tom Pidcock (GBR) | (1999-07-30)30 July 1999 (aged 20) |
| Callum Riley (GBR) | Callum Riley (GBR) | (1994-09-22)22 September 1994 (aged 25) |
| Oliver Robinson (GBR) | Oliver Robinson (GBR) | (1999-03-30)30 March 1999 (aged 20) |
| Jacques Sauvagnargues (GBR) | Jacques Sauvagnargues (GBR) | (1999-09-24)24 September 1999 (aged 20) |
| Robert Scott (GBR) | Robert Scott (GBR) | (1998-07-24)24 July 1998 (aged 21) |
| Daniel Tullett (GBR) | Daniel Tullett (GBR) | (1999-07-03)3 July 1999 (aged 20) |

## Major wins
### 2015

    Wiltshire GP, Andy Tennant
    Stage 2 Flèche du Sud, Andy Tennant
    Stages 3 & 4 Flèche du Sud, Owain Doull
    Round 6 – Barrow Tour Series, Christopher Lawless
    Points classification Tour of Britain, Owain Doull

### 2016

    Stage 3a (ITT) Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux, Jonathan Dibben
    Stage 4 Ronde de l'Isard, Scott Davies
    Stage 5 Olympia's Tour, Christopher Latham

### 2017

    Klondike Grand Prix, Christopher Latham

### 2018

    Volta ao Alentejo
       Stages 1 & 6, Gabriel Cullaigh
       Youth Classification, Mark Downey
    Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic, Gabriel Cullaigh
    Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Mark Donovan
    Mountains classification Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux, James Fouché

### 2019

    Tour of Antalya
       Mountain classification, James Fouché
       Intermediate sprints classification, James Fouché
    Volta ao Alentejo
       Stage 3, Gabriel Cullaigh
       Mountains classification, James Fouché
    Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
       Points classification, Thomas Pidcock
       Stage 2b, Thomas Pidcock
    Paris–Roubaix Espoirs, Thomas Pidcock
    Overall Tour Alsace, Thomas Pidcock
       Young rider classification, Thomas Pidcock
       Stage 2, Thomas Pidcock

## National, continental and world champions
### 2015

    British U23 Road Race, Owain Doull
    British Track (Individual pursuit), Andy Tennant
    UEC European Track (Team pursuit) Bradley Wiggins

### 2016

    World Track (Points race), Jonathan Dibben
    World Track (Madison), Bradley Wiggins
    British U23 Time Trial, Scott Davies
    Olympic Games (Team pursuit), Steven Burke, Owain Doull & Bradley Wiggins
    Olympic Games (Team Sprint), Philip Hindes

### 2017

    British U23 Time Trial, Scott Davies

### 2018

    British U23 Road Race, Robert Scott
    New Zealand U23 Road Race, James Fouché
    Irish U23 Time Trial, Michael O'Loughlin

### 2019

    New Zealand Road Race, James Fouché
    New Zealand U23 Road Race, James Fouché
    New Zealand U23 Time Trial, James Fouché
    Irish U23 Time Trial, Michael O'Loughlin