Stuart Dangerfield
Introduction


**Stuart Dangerfield** (born 17 September 1971, and from [Willenhall](/wiki/Willenhall "Willenhall") in [Staffordshire](/wiki/Staffordshire "Staffordshire"), now the [West Midlands](/wiki/West_Midlands_%28county%29 "West Midlands (county)")) is an [English](/wiki/England "England") retired [racing cyclist](/wiki/Racing_cyclist "Racing cyclist") who was prominent in [British](/wiki/United_Kingdom "United Kingdom") [individual time trial](/wiki/Individual_time_trial "Individual time trial") events during the 1990s and early 21st century. He was the British national time trial champion six times, jointly holding the record for most wins with [Alex Dowsett](/wiki/Alex_Dowsett "Alex Dowsett").

Dangerfield won his first [RTTC](/wiki/Cycling_Time_Trials "Cycling Time Trials") national time trial championship in 1992 in the hill\-climb event \- a victory he repeated in 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997\. In 1997, he was also a  time trial champion; he also won the event four consecutive times from 2000 to 2003\. He won his first national  championship in 2001, with repeat victories in 2003 and 2004\. In 2001 he broke  competition record with a time of 18'19" (32\.76 mph), knocking eight seconds off the previous record, set by [Graeme Obree](/wiki/Graeme_Obree "Graeme Obree") in 1993\.

At world championship level, he has represented [Great Britain](/wiki/Great_Britain "Great Britain") in the individual time trial event at Holland 1998, [Brittany](/wiki/Brittany "Brittany") 2000, [Portugal](/wiki/Portugal "Portugal") 2001 and [Belgium](/wiki/Belgium "Belgium") 2002\. He also represented England at the [Commonwealth Games](/wiki/Commonwealth_Games "Commonwealth Games") in [Canada](/wiki/Canada "Canada") 1994, [Malaysia](/wiki/Malaysia "Malaysia") 1998 and [Manchester](/wiki/Manchester "Manchester") 2002\.

Dangerfield was little known outside club cycling circles in Britain, having grown up in the shadow of firstly [Chris Boardman](/wiki/Chris_Boardman "Chris Boardman") and then [David Millar](/wiki/David_Millar "David Millar"). However, Millar's admission to using the illegal drug [EPO](/wiki/Erythropoietin "Erythropoietin") and consequent expulsion from the Great Britain squad for the [2004 Summer Olympics](/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics "2004 Summer Olympics") meant that Dangerfield was called up into the Olympic squad to race the time trial. An injury to GB cyclist [Jeremy Hunt](/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt_%28cyclist%29 "Jeremy Hunt (cyclist)") also saw Dangerfield entered into the men's road race. Dangerfield finished 30th in the time trial, but did not finish the road race.

At the Commonwealth Games in 2002 Dangerfield was disqualified for riding in the slipstream of a rider who had caught and passed him.

Dangerfield retired from time trialling competition in 2009\.


Which countries has Stuart Dangerfield represented at the world championships?