Cycling news - Former world road race champion Lizzie Deignan announces birth of daughter
ByPA Sport
Updated 24/09/2018 at 20:20 GMT
Former world road race champion Lizzie Deignan has announced the birth of her daughter, Orla.
Lizzie Deignan
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Deignan, 29, from Otley, West Yorkshire, who is married to fellow professional road cyclist Philip Deignan, posted pictures of daughter Orla on Twitter on Monday.
Lizzie Deignan, nee Armitstead, won Olympic silver in the individual road race event at London 2012 and became world road race champion in 2015.
She announced she was expecting her first child on social media in March and that she was aiming to return to professional cycling in 2019 before finishing her career in 2020 at the Tokyo Olympics.
Deignan will return to the sport in new colours after confirming a split with team Boels-Dolmans in July. The 29-year-old will return to action as the leader of the new Trek team, and says she has clear aims for her comeback.
“I always thought that becoming a mum would shorten my career, but in fact it has prolonged my career – so I will be targeting the 2020 Olympics," she said, adding.
The Yorkshire world championships for me is the biggest goal that I could ever imagine in my career. It literally goes past the house I grew up in and finishes about a kilometre from the house I’m going to live in. It’s about as ‘home’ as you can get, so for me there’s no bigger motivation.
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