Sir Bradley Wiggins' Team Sky timeline
Landmark moments in Tour winner's stay with British squad
Sunday 12 April 2015 19:18, UK
Sir Bradley Wiggins will end a five-and-a-half-year stint with Team Sky at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. Here, we look back at the highs and lows of his time with the team...
2009: Agrees to join Team Sky from Garmin-Slipstream, the team with which he had finished third at the Tour de France earlier that year.
January 2010: Presented as a founding member and leader of Team Sky at the squad’s launch in London.
May 2010: Claims his first victory for Team Sky by winning the prologue of the Giro d’Italia, taking the race leader’s pink jersey in the process.
July 2010: Finishes 22nd overall at the Tour de France, almost 40 minutes behind winner Andy Schleck, after struggling for form throughout the race. The result is seen as a disappointment following his podium finish 12 months earlier.
September 2010: Wins the British national time trial championship, beating Chris Froome into second place.
June 2011: Claims his first stage-race victory for Team Sky by winning the Criterium du Dauphine, the key warm-up race for the Tour de France.
June 2011: Wins the British national road race championship.
July 2011: Abandons the Tour de France after breaking his collarbone in a crash on stage seven.
September 2011: Starts the Vuelta a Espana as Team Sky leader but ends up finishing third behind winner Juan Jose Cobo and second-placed team-mate Froome.
March 2012: Wins the final-stage time trial to seal an eight-second overall victory at Paris-Nice.
April 2012: Wins two stages and the overall title at the Tour de Romandie. His first stage win, on stage one, comes in a bunch sprint.
June 2012: Wins the Criterium du Dauphine following a dominant performance.
July 2012: Becomes the first British winner of the Tour de France, beating team-mate Froome into second place and Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali into third. The victory is partly marred by a breakdown in his relationship with Froome, who attacked Wiggins on a mountainous 11th stage.
January 2013: Relationship with Froome deteriorates further as Froome publicly states he wants to lead Team Sky at the 2013 Tour.
May 2013: Targets overall victory at the Giro d’Italia but is forced to quit the race after 12 stages due to a combination of injury and illness.
May 2013: Ruled out of Tour due to a knee injury sustained at the Giro. Froome goes on to win the race in his absence.
September 2013: Wins the Tour of Britain for the first time following a closely contested race.
December 2013: Knighted for services to cycling in recognition of his Tour de France win and subsequent gold medal in the London 2012 Olympic time trial.
April 2014: Finishes an impressive ninth in Paris-Roubaix and states he wants to return to try to win the race in 2015.
May 2014: Wins the Amgen Tour of California stage race for the first time.
June 2014: Wins the British national time trial championship for the second time. Reveals to media after the race that he has been left out of Team Sky’s squad for the Tour de France.
January 2015: Announces he will leave Team Sky at the end of April 2015.
April 2015: Rides Paris-Roubaix in his final race for Team Sky.
