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Philippa York Biography

Philippa York is one of the most popular and richest Sport Cyclist who was born on September 13, 1958 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Philippa York (born Robert Millar on 13 September 1958) is a Scottish journalist and former professional road racing cyclist.

York’s 1980 debut pro season included second in the Tour du Vaucluse to Michel Laurent and eighth in a race in which she would finish in the top ten overall in her career seven times, the Tour de Romandie. Returning home for the UK National Championship, she finished fifth. In 1981 she improved one place on the year before with her seventh place in the Tour de Romandie. 1981 was her first prominent finish in another race in which she would again consistently impress, the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. York finished seventh as per the Tour de Romandie and was the first of six occasions in which she would end the Dauphiné in the top ten in the General Classification.1982 saw York again finish seventh in the Tour de Romandie. In the second year of the under-23 Tour de l’Avenir being opened to professionals, York finished second to Greg LeMond.

York returned to one of her previous teams, Z-Peugeot as it was now known and was second overall behind Mottet after winning stage seven in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. York was a stage winner in the Tour de Romandie and a runner-up in the Grand Prix de Wallonie to Thomas Wegmüller. She rode only one grand tour for the first time since 1984, and she had her best placing in the tour since the 1984 race. She won stage ten of the 1989 Tour de France from Cauterets to Superbagnères. York was first to the top of all four of that days climbs scaling the Tourmalet, Aspin, and Peyresourde before the Superbagneres finish. Charly Mottet was dropped from the three-man group approaching the finish leaving York to out sprint Delgado at the line. York was placed eighth at this point and ended that year’s tour in tenth. In the autumn York was overall winner in the Tour of Britain with her decisive move coming in a long two-man breakaway with Mauro Gianetti into Cardiff. Gianetti took the sprint for the stage but York comfortably stayed in yellow for the rest of the race. Other top ten placings included eighth in the Tour de Vaucluse (Rooks won) and ninth in the Grand Prix of the Americas.

1984 saw continued improvement. In the early season Paris–Nice, she and her team-mates finished second in the stage four team time trial. Two days later York finished second on a 64 km (40 mi) stage ending on Mont Ventoux putting her in the overall lead at that point. She ended the race in sixth overall behind winner Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche, Bernard Hinault, Michel Laurent and Phil Anderson. In the Tour de Romandie second stage at Crans Montana she beat Pascal Simon into second place. Roche won the race with York finishing in fifth. York took the mountains competition. York also enjoyed success in the Grand Prix du Midi Libre winning a stage and finishing fourth overall. Then came York’s best Tour de France. Stage eleven again began at Pau. After crossing the climbs of the Portet d’Aspet, Core and Latrape, York won the stage finishing with a climb to Guzet-Neige ski station. She was forty-one seconds ahead of Luis Herrera with Delgado a further twenty seconds behind in third. York finished fourth overall (surpassing Tom Simpson’s sixth place in the 1960s as the best British finish at the time) with Fignon winning for the second successive year and Hinault and LeMond also ahead of York. Kelly was a place behind York in fifth. York won the “King of the Mountains” polka dot jersey, the first time a native English speaker had won this jersey. On 2 September was York’s best finish in the UCI World Championships. Raced in Barcelona, York finished sixth with winner Claude Criquielion, Claudio Corti and Steve Bauer taking the podium places. Other races that year included second in the Tour du Haut Var to Eric Caritoux and second in Nice – Alassio to Roche. York finished seventh in the Volta a Catalunya, won by Kelly.

During the mid-1980s Millar appeared in television commercials for Kellogg’s ‘Start’ cereal. A one-hour Granada Television documentary about Millar’s 1985 racing season, entitled The High Life, which also included appearances by Allan Peiper and music by Steve Winwood, was screened in Britain on the eve of the 1986 Tour de France.

Name	Philippa York
First Name	Philippa
Last Name	Philippa
Occupation	Sport Cyclist
Birthday	September 13
Birth Year	1958
Place of Birth	Glasgow
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Birth Country	United Kingdom
Birth Sign	Capricorn
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Spouse	Sylvie Transler
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As Millar, York married a French woman, Sylvie Transler, in December 1985. No-one from York’s family was in attendance, nor were any of her team-mates, who had no idea she even had a girlfriend. Panasonic team-mate Phil Anderson commented, “He didn’t seem to have the skills for getting on with men, let alone women”. The couple were believed to have separated by the late 1990s.

Philippa York Net Worth

Philippa York is one of the richest Sport Cyclist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philippa York's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She initially began riding for Glenmarnock Wheelers cycling club and quickly established herself as a leading amateur road racing rider. As Robert Millar, she was a relatively small man meaning she had comparatively less weight to carry uphill and she excelled as a specialist hill and mountain cyclist. She won the Scottish junior title in 1976 and was Scottish hill-climb champion the following year. In 1978, York established herself on the British scene. She was twenty-first in the Milk Race, and won the British amateur road race championship. She moved to France in 1979 to join the Athletic Club de Boulogne Billancourt (A.C.B.B.), one of Europe’s top amateur teams, and quickly began winning races such the Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers.

In 1979, after retaining her British road title, taking fourth place in the world amateur road championship, claiming five wins in France and winning the French ‘Best Amateur’ Trophy, she turned professional for the Peugeot cycling team, and as a climbing specialist focused on single-day road races and stage races in hilly or mountainous terrain. York was happy to travel abroad and wasn’t homesick. As Millar, she married a French woman and lived with her in France.

In 1983 York came second in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré with LeMond again finishing a place above her. With her impressive June showing in the Dauphine, York was selected for the Tour de France for the first time. Any hopes of a high placing in the tour General Classification ended on stage three when she crashed losing seventeen minutes. 11 July was that year’s tour first mountainous race crossing the Aubisque, Tourmalet, Aspin, and Peyresourde in the Pyrenees on stage ten. The only Pyrenean stage of that tour, York won the day six seconds ahead of Pedro Delgado. York finished fourteenth overall, twenty-three minutes behind the winner, Laurent Fignon and sandwiched in between two riders who would figure prominently in her career, Stephen Roche in thirteenth and Delgado in fifteenth. York’s debut grand tour gave her third in the mountains classification, one place above Delgado like in the General Classification with Lucien Van Impe taking the polka dot jersey.

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In 1985, the Vuelta a España was still held in its April – May slot as the first of the three grand tours of the season. York took over the race lead on stage ten, a stage won by Kelly. York held the lead going into what has become one of the most infamous days’ racing in the history of the event. York started the day just ten seconds ahead of Francisco Rodríguez with Spain’s Pello Ruiz Cabestany 65 seconds further behind in third. With the following day’s last stage of the race little more than ceremonial, York said to the press, “I just have to stick to Pacho Rodríguez’s wheel and it’s done.” A mountainous stage with three major climbs, Rodriguez tried but was unable to make any inroads on York on the first climb of the day, the Morcuera. At the foot of the second climb, the Cotos, York punctured, meaning once the puncture had been tackled York had to chase to get back to Rodriguez and Cabestany. By the time riders reached the third climb, Los Leones, York had not only reached Rodriguez and Cabestany but was also taking their congratulations, indicating their acceptance of the race being effectively over as a contest. However, York was unaware that Delgado, in the mountains around his Segovia home town that he knew so well, had launched an attack. None of the riders in York’s group made York aware of the attack by Delgado, an elite specialist climber like York, with the knowledge of the roads allowing him to descend aggressively. Delgado had support in his break from a second rider, Jose Recio. Delgado had started the day in sixth place and six minutes behind York. Working with Recio, Delgado was now nearly seven minutes ahead of York on the road. York had no team-mates in the group with Rodriguez and Cabestany as they had been unable to keep up. Recio won the stage and Delgado took overall lead of the race by thirty-six seconds from York. With the race being referred to as “The Stolen Vuelta’, from the collusion among the Spanish-speaking riders, York finished second overall. Peugeot directeur sportif, Roland Berland, said “It’s rotten, the whole peloton was against us. It seems a Spaniard had to win at all costs.” L’Équipe’s Philip Bouvet stated York was “the victim of a formidable Spanish coalition”. York said afterwards “I’ll never return to Spain”. In the television documentary on the career of Robert Millar, “The High Life”, York criticised Berland for his handling of the situation on the road when Delgado attacked, stating that Berland had been unable to negotiate support from other non-Spanish speaking teams during the stage to give York the required support to chase down Delgado’s lead.

York changed teams in 1986 to ride for Panasonic. Despite her previous comment after the ’85 race, she again rode in the Vuelta a España. York won stage six from Santander to Lagos de Covadonga putting her into the leader’s jersey. On stage eleven however, a 29 km (18 mi) time trial at Valladolid, Alvaro Pino took over the lead and retained this to the finish with York finishing second overall like she had the year before. The winning margin was one minute and six seconds. In the Tour de France York was racing well even before the race reached the mountains with a third in the team time trial and ninth in the individual time trial on stage nine. York was placed tenth at this point. This improved further in the Pyrenees on stage thirteen from Pau crossing the Tourmalet, the Aspin, the Peyresourde and finishing at Superbagneres. York finished second on the day to eventual winner of the race, Greg Lemond. This placed York in fourth overall at this point and in the lead in the mountains competition. She retained this to the end of stage seventeen between Gap and Serre Chevalier. However York was battling illness and began to spiral down the placings in a struggle just to stay in the race. In the stage twenty time trial, in contrast to the ninth place in the earlier time trial, York placed 112th over ten minutes behind the stage winner (Hinault). York started stage twenty-one in fifteenth overall but climbed off her bike to abandon the race before the conical final climb of the day up the Puy de Dôme. In other races, York finished second overall in the Tour de Suisse behind Andrew Hampsten. York was sixth in the Vuelta a Aragón and seventh in the Escalada a Montjuïc.

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York, who competed as Robert Millar, is one of Britain’s most successful cyclists of all time. York won the “King of the Mountains” competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall. This success was the first time a British rider won a major Tour classification, and was unsurpassed as the highest Tour finish for a Briton for over 20 years until Bradley Wiggins was retrospectively placed third in the 2009 Tour de France. York rode the Tour de France eleven times, completing the race eight times.

In 1987 York rode the Giro d’Italia for the only time in her career. The race provided high drama due to the controversy between two riders on the same Carrera team, Roberto Visentini and Roche. The two teammates battled each other, but the presence of York and her own Panasonic team-mate, Erik Breukink, challenging for the race made this risky. York won stage 21 in a three-man breakaway with Roche and Marino Lejarreta. The result moved her up to second overall and gave Roche the win as Visentini fell, broke his wrist and lost six more minutes on what was to be his last day in the race. York also took the climber’s green jersey. In the Tour de Romandie, York finished fourth, a race won by Roche as was the Tour de France. York finished nineteenth in the Tour de France, although at the end of stage fourteen from Pau to Luz Ardiden York again enjoyed her zenith in the race when she was fifth overall. Like the year before she had been helped by a strong showing in the first individual time trial. However, York slipped to fifth, then sixth, before on stage nineteen she lost over fifteen minutes to slide out of contention. Elsewhere York was fifth in Liège–Bastogne–Liège with Moreno Argentin winning for the third year running. York was sixth in the Tour of the Mediterranean (Gerrit Solleveld won) and seventh in the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme behind winner Vicent Belda.

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As a cyclist, York had a reputation for being taciturn and could be uncooperative with the media. Jeff Connor, author of Wide Eyed & Legless: Inside the Tour de France was told to “fuck off” when requesting an interview during the 1987 Tour de France. When told this, commentator Phil Liggett replied, “That sounds like Millar, he’s been really awkward with us in the past. Personally, I think it’s a disgrace. He has a duty to his sponsor to represent the team and you don’t do that by telling journalists to ‘fuck off’.” During commentary for Stage 23 of the 1987 Tour de France, Liggett stated “[It has been a] very disappointing Tour for Robert. He has lost a lot of popularity, too, one has to say. He won’t speak to journalists and the team itself [Panasonic] is also becoming discontented with Robert this year.” York subsequently left Panasonic at the end of the 1987 season, to join Fagor.

Top Facts about Philippa York

1. Philippa York is a Scottish former professional road cyclist.
2. She was born on September 16, 1958, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
3. York competed as Robert Millar until transitioning in 2000.
4. She won the King of the Mountains classification in the Tour de France in 1984.
5. York also achieved success in other Grand Tours and major races.
6. Her career spanned from 1978 to 1995, with notable victories throughout.
7. After retiring, she became a respected cycling commentator and writer.
8. York’s transition brought attention to transgender athletes in sports.
9. She continues to be an influential figure within the cycling community.
10. Philippa York’s achievements have left a lasting impact on Scottish cycling history.

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York finished second in the 1987 Giro d’Italia and also won the King of the Mountains classification. This was the highest finish by a Briton in the Giro d’Italia until Chris Froome won the 2018 race. As well as the Giro second-place finish, York finished second in two other Grand Tours: the 1985 and 1986 Vuelta a España. The second place at the 1985 Vuelta came after losing the leader’s jersey on the penultimate stage, in what is widely thought to have been collusion by the Spanish-speaking teams. Further victories came at the 1985 Volta a Catalunya, the 1989 Tour of Britain and the 1990 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.

What happened to Robert Millar?

British former Tour de France cyclist Robert Millar has completed a transition to become a woman. The 58-year-old has decided to go public with the gender change because she says there is “a much better acceptance and understanding”.

Does Pippa York have children?

Philippa York was born in Glasgow. She has two grown-up children and currently lives in the south of England with her partner, Linda.

Who is Robert Miller now?

Tour de France legend Robert Millar has declared she is now a woman and has changed her name to Philippa York. The 58-year-old Glaswegian said she decided to go public about her gender transition as there is now “a much better acceptance and understanding”.

What does David Millar do now?

Since then the American has been stripped of all seven Tour de France wins for doping offences while Millar, now a writer, broadcaster and clothing designer, served a two-year ban for doping between 2004 and 2006.

Who was cyclist from Scotland?

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