# Roger Hammond (cyclist)

Roger Hammond (born 30 January 1974) is a male English retired bicycle racer, specialising in cyclo-cross and road cycling.

## Education

Hammond grew up in Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School as a teenager. While still at school he won the 1992 world junior cyclo-cross championship in Leeds, but elected to concentrate on his university studies before pursuing a cycling career.

## Cycling career

Hammond represented England in the road race event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He repeated this achievement four years later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
He was the British road champion in 2003 and 2004. He rode for Discovery Channel in 2005–2006, for Team High Road in 2007–2008, for Cervélo TestTeam in 2009–2010, and Garmin–Cervélo in 2011. Hammond rode for the Great Britain team in the 2005 and 2006 Tour of Britain.

## Post cycling

In July 2012 Roger Hammond was announced as the team manager of the newly formed Madison-Genesis team. In November 2015 he announced that he would join Team Dimension Data as a sports director for the 2016 season, initially combining the position with his Madison-Genesis role. He returned to Madison-Genesis for the team's last season in 2019.
Hammond was in December 2019 named as performance director for the Bahrain-McLaren team for the 2020 season.
He joined the Ineos Grenadiers in October 2021 as head of racing.
Hammond has also worked as a pundit for ITV4, providing analysis of the Vuelta a España.

## Major results
### Cyclo-cross
#### 1991–1992

    1st UCI World Junior Championships

#### 1993–1994

    1st National Championships

#### 1999–2000

    1st National Championships

#### 2000–2001

    1st National Championships

#### 2001–2002

    1st National Championships
    National Trophy Series
       1st Leicestershire
       1st London

#### 2002–2003

    1st National Championships

#### 2003–2004

    1st National Championships
    National Trophy Series
       1st Leicestershire

#### 2005–2006

    1st National Championships

#### 2007–2008

    1st National Championships

#### 2008–2009

    3rd National Championships

### Road
#### 1998

    2nd Road race, National Road Championships

#### 2000

    1st Archer Grand Prix
    1st Grand Prix Bodson
    2nd Grand Prix Fayt-Le-Franc
    3rd Schaal Sels
    10th Gent–Wevelgem

#### 2001

    1st Textielprijs Vichte
    2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal
    4th Le Samyn
    5th Schaal Sels

#### 2002

    1st Tour Beneden-Maas
    1st Grote 1-MeiPrijs
    1st Sprints classification, Tour of Rhodes
    4th Road race, National Road Championships
    5th Schaal Sels

#### 2003

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Uniqa Classic
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    2nd GP Jef Scherens Leuven
    2nd Stage 5 Étoile de Bessèges
    8th Gent–Wevelgem
    8th Paris–Bourges

#### 2004

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Paris–Roubaix
    3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
    3rd Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens
    6th Le Samyn
    6th Gent–Wevelgem
    7th Road race, Olympic Games

#### 2005

    1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
    2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
    2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs

#### 2006

    1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships

#### 2007

    2nd Gent–Wevelgem

#### 2008

    10th Gent–Wevelgem

#### 2009

    3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
       1st Stage 2
    3rd Overall Tour of Denmark
    3rd Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole
    4th Paris–Bourges
    5th Road race, National Road Championships

#### 2010

    4th Paris–Roubaix
    7th Tour of Flanders

#### Classic results timeline

| Monument | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 21 | 28 | 42 | 35 | 92 | DNF | 147 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | 73 | 71 | DNF | 48 | 30 | 52 | DNF | DNF | 31 | 13 | 7 | 108 |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | — | — | — | 17 | 3 | OTL | 24 | 7 | 23 | 14 | 4 | DNF |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | DNF | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career | did not contest during his career |
| Classic | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | DNF | 34 | 29 | DNF | DNF | — | 59 | 16 | 43 | 45 | 61 | 19 | 74 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | 17 | 28 | 31 | 21 | — | — | 13 | DNF | 53 | 13 | 51 | 97 | DNF | — |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 23 | — | — | 25 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 44 | 11 | 13 | 74 |
| E3 Prijs Vlaanderen | DNF | DNF | — | — | 73 | 16 | 8 | 25 | 8 | 26 | DNF | 83 | 42 | 91 |
| Gent–Wevelgem | DNF | — | 10 | 22 | DNF | 8 | 6 | DNF | — | 2 | 10 | 74 | OTL | 154 |