Bradley Wiggins Biography

Birth of Bradley Wiggins

Winner of the UCI U19 Track World Championships,Gold, 2km Individual Pursuit

Winnner of a bronze medal as a member of the British team pursuit squad in his first Olympic appearance at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Winner of the UCI Track World Championships Gold, 4km Individual Pursuit

Wins the gold medal in the individual pursuit, the silver in the team pursuit and a bronze in the Madison. Wiggins becomes the first British athlete in 40 years to win three medals at one Olympic Games

Wiggins is awarded an OBE for services to sport

Wins the prologue of the Criterium du Dauphine Libere

Wiggins team is withdrawn after Cristian Moreni fails a doping test. Races in the 2007 Tour de France for Cofidis and takes 1st in the Prologue in London

Wins a gold medal in the 4km Individual Pursuit, defending his title from four years earlier. In doing so he became the first rider ever to successfully defend his pursuit title at the Olympics

At the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, Wiggins wins three gold medals: Individual Pursuit, Team Pursuit and Madison

Member of Olympic team pursuit squad which breaks the world record in the heats with a time of 3:55:202, beating their Russian opponents comfortably to go through to the final ride-off for silver and gold

On their way to winning the gold medal, the British Team pursuit break their own world record in a time of 3:53:314, beating their Danish competitors by 6.7 seconds

On their way to winning the gold medal, the British Team pursuit break their own world record in a time of 3:53:314, beating their Danish competitors by 6.7 seconds

Finishes 4th overall