Tour de France: Yorkshire’s cycling heritage - Lizzie Armitstead
Yorkshire’s finest road cyclist is Otley’s Lizzie Armitstead, a two-time national champion and an Olympic silver medallist, after finishing second at London 2012.
Armistead first rode a bike properly when she was 15 and proved a natural. She won a host of Track World Cup races and a world title in the winter of 2008-09.
Armitstead won the national title for the first time that year, and regained it in Glasgow in 2013.
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Hide AdShe delivered her finest moment up The Mall in London in the teeming rain in 2012, when she finished runner-up to Marianne Vos in the Olympic road race.
She is a vocal campaigner for equal rights for women in cycling.