Bradley Wiggins: career highlights - Telegraph 2006: Makes Tour de France debut, riding for French team Cofidis, coming 123rd. 2007: Finishes fourth in Tour de France prologue in London behind Swiss winner Fabian Cancellara but his team, Cofidis, later withdraws after team-mate Cristian Moreni fails a drugs test. Throws team kit in an airport bin and vows never to race for them again. 2008: Successfully defends Olympic Individual Pursuit title with gold in Beijing, and two days later goes on to win gold in the Team Pursuit with Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas and Paul Manning in a world record of 3m 53.3s. 2009: Secures fourth place in Tour de France, matching highest-ever placing by a British rider. Later that year, becomes leader of Team Sky in a four-year deal. 2010: Finishes a disappointing 24th on Team Sky's Tour de France debut. 2011: Wins the Criterium du Dauphine, the traditional Tour de France warm-up, and the British Championships road race, but crashes out of the Tour de France on stage seven with a broken collarbone, while placed sixth. 2012: Wins Paris-Nice stage race , the Tour de Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine in a string of victories. July 2012: Pulls on Tour de France Yellow Jersey for first time after stage seven. Two days later, pushes his lead to two minutes in first time trial. Extends lead by another minute in second time-trial on penultimate day. 22 July 2012: Rides up Champs-Elysees as the first British winner of the Tour de France in its 99-year history.