Mentors

Professional cyclist, Alex Dowsett, joins the Anexo Group Race Team in 2023 as Head of Development. Alex’s successful career in cycling saw him race for over a decade in the World Tour for numerous different teams including Team Sky (now INEOS) and Movistar.

Ed Clancy OBE is the most successful Team Pursuit cyclist in history, having won gold with Team GB at three successive Olympics. 2021 marked his sixteenth year as part of Team GB as he competed in his fourth Olympic games in Tokyo.

Since retirement, Ed has gone on to work for British Cycling’s Research and Innovation Team and consults for British Triathlon. In January 2022, he launched performance consultancy business Pursuit Line with his long-term mentor and business partner, Phil Kelly. In 2020, along with former road teammate Graham Briggs, he launched the Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy, aiming to get children learning and enjoying riding a bike.

Bradley Wiggins is one of Great Britain’s most successful Olympians with eight medals, and was the first rider from the UK to claim the Tour de France title in 2012. He is the only rider to have won both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road, as well as winning the Tour de France.

Since retiring from professional cycling, Bradley Wiggins has worked in media and has ambitions of furthering himself outside of cycling, attending university courses.

Ian Bibby is a former British professional road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who competed professionally between 2009 and 2019. In 2010, Ian won the British National Cyclo-cross Championships, and was triumphant in the 2015 British National Circuit Race Championships.

Ian now works as a Business Development Manager at CAMS (Cycling Accident Management Services).

Sophie has recently completed an MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), in addition to working with a range of recreational and professional athletes of varying ages with teams including: Uno-X Pro Cycling Development Team, LJMU athlete scholars and Lord of The Dance.

Prior to completing her nutrition degrees and research, Sophie trained and worked as a qualified chef. Sophie enjoys the nutritional challenges unique to each athlete, striving to combine her academic knowledge and culinary skills to help equip athletes with the knowledge and key skills that allow them to excel.