Chris Boardman

Chris Boardman
CBE

Boardman at the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Miles Boardman
Nickname	The Professor[1]
Born	(1968-08-26) 26 August 1968 (age 55) Hoylake, Merseyside, formerly Cheshire, England
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Weight	70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)[2]
Team information
Discipline	Road and track
Rider type	Time trialist
Amateur teams
–	Birkenhead Victoria CC
–	Manchester Wheelers' Club
–	GS Strada
–	North Wirral Velo Club-Kodak
Professional teams
1993–1998	GAN
1999–2000	Crédit Agricole
Major wins
Road Grand Tours Tour de France 3 individual stages (1994, 1997, 1998) Stage races Critérium International (1996) One-day races and Classics World Time Trial Championships (1994) Track Olympics Men's individual pursuit (1992) World Championships Men's individual pursuit (1994, 1996) Hour record holder (2000)
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games Men's track cycling 1992 Barcelona Individual pursuit Men's road bicycle racing 1996 Atlanta Time trial World Championships Men's track cycling 1994 Palermo Individual pursuit 1996 Manchester Individual pursuit 1993 Hamar Individual pursuit Men's road bicycle racing 1994 Agrigento Time trial 1996 Lugano Time trial 1997 San Sebastian Time trial 1999 Treviso Time trial Representing  England Commonwealth Games Edinburgh 1986 Team pursuit Auckland 1990 Team pursuit Auckland 1990 Team time trial

Christopher Miles Boardman, CBE (born 26 August 1968) is an English former racing cyclist. A time trial and prologue specialist, Boardman won the inaugural men's World time trial championship in 1994, won the individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, broke the world hour record three times, and won three prologue stages (and consequently wore the yellow jersey on three occasions) at the Tour de France.

Boardman used the Lotus 108 time trial bicycle designed by Mike Burrows and built by the sports car manufacturer Lotus. Later he worked with the UK carbon fibre bike specialist Hotta, to produce other time-trial frame designs, which he raced in various events including world championships, and Olympic games. He is now involved in producing commercial and competition bikes with the Boardman Bikes and Boardman Elite ventures.

Boardman has also worked to promote walking and cycling across the UK, becoming Greater Manchester's walking and cycling commissioner in 2017, Greater Manchester's Transport Commissioner in 2021 and most recently, Commissioner of Active Travel England.

In 1992, he was awarded an MBE for services to cycling. In the 2024 Birthday Honours, Chris Boardman was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to active travel.^[3]