# Graham Briggs

Graham Briggs (born 14 July 1983) is a British road racing cyclist, who currently rides for the British amateur team Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy.

## Career

Born in Rossington, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Briggs initially played football as a youngster before switching to cycling, initially off-road as a cyclo-cross rider and then the discipline of mountain biking, until the foot and mouth crisis of 2001. He competed for Great Britain in the Under-23 road race at the 2003 UCI Road World Championships in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The majority of his road racing career has been spent in city centre competitions leading to successes in the Elite Circuit Race Series in recent years.
Briggs is classed as a sprinter and was the winner of the British National Circuit Race Championships in 2011.
Briggs left Team Raleigh at the end of the 2013 season and joined Rapha Condor–JLT for the 2014 season; his third spell with the latter squad.
Graham Briggs is a co-founder of the Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy with the mission "to move a generation of children, putting the bicycle back at the heart of childhood play, forming lifelong habits that will deliver benefits for health and the environment for years to come."

## Major results
### 2001

    3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships

### 2007

    5th Overall Girvan Three Day

### 2008

    3rd Blackpool Grand Prix Circuit Race
    3rd Clayton Velo Spring Classic
    7th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher
    8th National Criterium Championships

### 2009

    1st Round 1 – Milton Keynes, Tour Series
    1st Stage 2 Girvan Three Day
    2nd Blackburn Grand Prix
    4th Brighouse Circuit Race
    4th Warwick Town Centre Race
    7th Colne Grand Prix
    8th East Yorkshire Classic Circuit Race
    10th Tour of the Reservoir

### 2010

    2nd Blackburn Grand Prix
    3rd Dumfries Bike Fest Grand Prix
    7th Dumfries Elite Circuit Series Race
    7th Newport Nocturne

### 2011

    1st National Criterium Championships
    2nd Wales Open Criterium
    2nd Glade Spring Road Race
    4th Smithfield Nocturne
    6th Jock Wadley Memorial

### 2012

    1st Overall British Cycling Elite Circuit Race Series
       1st Brighouse Circuit Race
       1st Wales Open Criterium
       2nd Colne Grand Prix
       5th East Yorkshire Classic
    10th Sheffrec CC Spring Road Race

### 2013

    2nd Monsal Hill-Climb
    4th Colne Grand Prix
    4th Wales Open Criterium
    10th Ryedale Grand Prix

### 2014

    1st Overall Tour du Loir et Cher
       1st Stage 3
    1st Legstretchers Memorial to Betty Pharoah Road Race
    1st Round 2 – Barrow-in-Furness, Tour Series
    1st Milk Race
    1st Colne Grand Prix
    1st Wales Open Criterium
    2nd National Criterium Championships
    2nd Eddie Soens Memorial
    2nd Newport Nocturne
    3rd Beverley Grand Prix
    3rd Jock Wadley Memorial Road Race
    5th Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
    10th Stockton Grand Prix

### 2015

    1st Chepstow Grand Prix
    1st Wales Open Criterium
    2nd National Criterium Championships
    3rd Stockton Grand Prix
    3rd Grand Prix of Wales
    3rd Hitter Road Race
    8th Leicester Castle Classic

### 2016

    1st Round 3 - Edinburgh, Tour Series
    2nd - Aberystwyth, Tour Series
    3rd - Stevenage, Tour Series
    1st - Colne, Tour Series
    2nd - Stage 2, Tour of Britain

### 2017

    1st - Croyden, Tour Series
    3rd - Stevenage, Tour Series
    3rd - Rydale Grand Prix
    2nd - London Nocturne

### 2018

    9th - Prologue, Herald Sun Tour
    3rd - Aberystwyth, Tour Series
    1st - Rydale Grand Prix