Roger Hammond (born 30 January 1974) is a male English retired bicycle racer, specialising in cyclo-cross and road cycling.
Education Hammond grew up in Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School as a teenager.The Guardian Buckley, Will: "Hammond handles his personal hell". The Guardian, 22 April 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2007. While still at school he won the 1992 world junior cyclo-cross championship in Leeds, but elected to concentrate on his university studies before pursuing a cycling career.
Cycling career Hammond represented England in the road race event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He repeated this achievement four years later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
He was the British road champion in 2003 and 2004. He rode for in 2005–2006, for in 2007–2008, for in 2009–2010, and in 2011.Slipstream Sports Slipstream Sports: "Press release: Slipstream Sports Announces Additions to 2011 Roster" 1 September 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010. Hammond rode for the Great Britain team in the 2005 and 2006 Tour of Britain. During his pro career he performed well in the spring classics including a 3rd place finish on the 2004 edition of Paris-Roubaix which followed on from his 3rd place finish in the 2004 edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen. In the 2005 running of Dwars door Vlaanderen he went one better finishing 2nd. In 2007 Hammond matched his best classic result coming 2nd at Gent–Wevelgem.
Hammond is also an 8 times British cyclo-cross champion.
Post cycling In July 2012 Roger Hammond was announced as the team manager of the newly formed Madison-Genesis team. In November 2015 he announced that he would join as a sports director for the 2016 season, initially combining the position with his Madison-Genesis role. He returned to Madison-Genesis for the team's last season in 2019.
Hammond was in December 2019 named as performance director for the Bahrain-McLaren team for the 2020 season.
He joined the Ineos Grenadiers in October 2021 as head of racing.
Hammond has also worked as a pundit for ITV4, providing analysis of the Vuelta a España.
After a successful stint at INEOS (that was ended by a significant upheaval in the management structure), Hammond moved to Red Bull BORA Hansgrohe as an associate sports director from May 2024.
At the end of 2025 it was announced that Hammond was stepping away from the world tour to help the promising Unibet Rose Rockets project, where he would once again work with Wout Poels after working together at Team Bahrain Victorious in 2020 and 2021 seasons.
Major results Cyclo-cross
1991–1992 1st UCI World Junior Championships 1993–1994 1st National Championships 1999–2000 1st National Championships 2000–2001 1st National Championships 2001–2002 1st National Championships National Trophy Series 1st Leicestershire 1st London 2002–2003 1st National Championships 2003–2004 1st National Championships National Trophy Series 1st Leicestershire 2005–2006 1st National Championships 2007–2008 1st National Championships 2008–2009 3rd National Championships
Road
1998 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2000 1st Archer Grand Prix 1st Grand Prix Bodson 2nd Grand Prix Fayt-Le-Franc 3rd Schaal Sels 10th Gent–Wevelgem 2001 1st Textielprijs Vichte 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami 3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal 4th Le Samyn 5th Schaal Sels 2002 1st Tour Beneden-Maas 1st Grote 1-MeiPrijs 1st Sprints classification, Tour of Rhodes 4th Road race, National Road Championships 5th Schaal Sels 2003 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Overall Uniqa Classic 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 2nd GP Jef Scherens Leuven 2nd Stage 5 Étoile de Bessèges 8th Gent–Wevelgem 8th Paris–Bourges 2004 1st Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Paris–Roubaix 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen 3rd Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens 6th Le Samyn 6th Gent–Wevelgem 7th Road race, Olympic Games 2005 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen 2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs 2006 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2007 2nd Gent–Wevelgem 2008 10th Gent–Wevelgem 2009 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar 1st Stage 2 3rd Overall Tour of Denmark 3rd Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole 4th Paris–Bourges 5th Road race, National Road Championships 2010 4th Paris–Roubaix 7th Tour of Flanders
Classic results timeline Monument 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011Milan–San Remo — — — — — — — 21 28 42 35 92 DNF 147Tour of Flanders — — 73 71 DNF 48 30 52 DNF DNF 31 137 108Paris–Roubaix — — — — — 173 OTL 247 23 144 DNFLiège–Bastogne–Liège — — — DNF — DNF — — — — — — — —Giro di Lombardiadid not contest during his careerClassic 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — DNF 34 29 DNF DNF — 59 16 43 45 61 19 74Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 17 28 31 21 — — 13 DNF 53 13 51 97 DNF —Dwars door Vlaanderen 23 — — 25 22 1732 16 15 44 11 13 74E3 Prijs Vlaanderen DNF DNF — — 73 168 258 26 DNF 83 42 91Gent–Wevelgem DNF —10 22 DNF86 DNF —210 74 OTL 154
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