Dave Brailsford

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dave Brailsford
Occupation	Coach
Date Of Birth	Feb 29, 1964(1964-02-29)
Age	60
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Pisces

Dave Brailsford Biography

Dave Brailsford is one of the most popular and richest Coach who was born on February 29, 1964 in United Kingdom. Sir David John Brailsford CBE (born 29 February 1964) is a British cycling coach. He was formerly performance director of British Cycling and is currently general manager of Team Ineos.

At the 2004 Olympic Games Great Britain won two cycling gold medals, their best performance since 1908. Under Brailsford’s leadership, the cycling team continued to improve, winning multiple world championships in road, track, BMX and mountain bike racing. Great Britain led the cycling medal table at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, winning eight golds at both, while British cyclists won 59 World Championships across different disciplines from 2003 to 2013.

Peaking in the mid-2010s at the height of Brailsford’s reputation, ‘marginal gains’ philosophy was discussed beyond cycling in the UK mainstream media. Brailsford’s ‘1% Factor’ was also discussed in business circles in the UK and internationally. In UK education policy, the Social Mobility Commission argued in 2014 that improvements in the academic performance of disadvantaged students in British schools could be compared to “the success of [the] British cycling team: the aggregation of marginal gains”.

We were one of the few English families in that area of north Wales – we’d moved there from Derby when I was two – and somehow I always felt I didn’t quite fit in. So I always thought I must try harder than the others to be accepted, to be successful.

Brailsford spent some of his early career working as an export sales manager at Planet X Bikes. He was first employed by British Cycling as a consultant in 1998, after Lottery funding began the previous year. Brailsford became programmes director before becoming performance director in 2003 following the departure of Peter Keen.

Dave Brailsford Net Worth

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

He attended Ysgol Deiniolen and Ysgol Brynrefail, and learned Welsh. In 1984 he gave up his job as an apprentice draughtsman with the local highways department to travel to France, where he raced for four years as a sponsored amateur for a team based in Saint-Étienne. He has described his years in France as a time of autodidacticism:

He returned in 1988 to study for a degree in Sport and Exercise Sciences and Psychology at Chester College of Higher Education (then an affiliated college of the University of Liverpool, now the University of Chester) and then an MBA at Sheffield Hallam University.

In 2010, Brailsford also became the manager of the new British-based professional team, Team Sky. In this role he oversaw Bradley Wiggins’, Chris Froome’s and Geraint Thomas’ victories in the 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Tours de France. In April 2014, Brailsford resigned as performance director at British Cycling to concentrate on his Team Sky responsibilities.

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Marco Ranked on the list of most popular Coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Dave Brailsford celebrates birthday on February 29 of every year.

What is Dave Brailsford doing now?

Dave Brailsford has been appointed as director of sport at Ineos , a role that will see the veteran team manager oversee the company’s operations across a range of sports, as well as cycling.

How does Dave Brailsford describe marginal gains?

This was echoed by Brailsford, who, after the 2012 Olympics, spoke about the marginal gains approach: “The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.

What is marginal gains theory?

As often happens, so-called marginal gains theory soon became a talking point in the business journals; it’s the notion that small, incremental improvements in a business process, when added together, can make a significant improvement.

What did Sir Dave Brailsford do?

Brailsford is a former performance director at British Cycling and then became a founding member of the first British WorldTour cycling team, along with Ellingworth.

How did GB cycle go from tragic to magic?

When Chris Hoy made his international debut at the European Under-23 Championships in 1996, the future track legend had to sign his team tracksuit out and then return it afterwards as somebody else would be needing it the following year.