Sir Brad has entered the final chapter of a phenomenal career after making his final Team Sky appearance at Paris-Roubaix.
This final chapter has seen him turn his attention back to the track and started in perfect fashion when he smashed the UCI Hour Record on June 7, with his ultimate goal being team pursuit gold at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
A medal in Brazil would make him Britain’s most decorated Olympian, but even without one final hurrah his career has been an incredible one.
A junior world individual pursuit champion in 1998, aged just 18, kick-started what has become one of British Cycling’s biggest success stories.
Six Olympic medals on the track between 2000 and 2008, including one team pursuit gold and two individual pursuit golds, followed.
He also picked up six world titles, including the Madison in 2008 alongside Mark Cavendish, before his successful switch to the road.
Fourth place at the Tour de France in 2009 set the tone, before his move to Team Sky for their inaugural season in 2010.
And the rest, as they say, is history – crowned by his stunning 2012 season, in which he prepared for the Tour de France by winning the Criterium du Dauphine, Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie.
After then becoming the first Brit to ever win the Tour de France, Wiggins also capped his annus mirabillis with Olympic time trial gold in London – leading to a knighthood and the Sports Personality of the Year award.
And while the Tour was his last Grand Tour finish, Wiggins has also since gone on to win the Tour of Britain, Tour of California and, last year, time trial gold at the World Championships.
His UCI Hour Record is the latest addition to his packed palmares – what a career it has been.
Finest moment: Already boasting a commanding lead at the Tour de France, Wiggins all-but-sealed victory in the perfect way possible – storming to time trial victory on the 53.5km stage 19 with a time more than a minute faster than second-placed team-mate Chris Froome. The sight of him punching the air and roaring his way across the finish line has become one of British cycle sport’s most iconic images.
