Philippa York

Philippa York, born Robert Millar on 13 September 1958 in Glasgow, is a Scottish journalist and former professional road racing cyclist, and one of Britain's most successful riders. Racing as Robert Millar, she was a climbing specialist who won the King of the Mountains competition at the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall, the best result by a British rider in the race for more than twenty years. She finished second at the 1987 Giro d'Italia, also winning its mountains classification, and second at the 1985 and 1986 Vuelta a Espana, the first of those after losing the leader's jersey on the penultimate stage. Other victories came at the 1985 Volta a Catalunya, the 1989 Tour of Britain and the 1990 Criterium du Dauphine Libere. After retiring in 1995 she worked as a journalist and spent a year as a British Cycling coach, and in 2017 she revealed her gender transition publicly.