Philippa York
From LGBT Archive
Philippa York, born 1958, is a Scottish transgender cyclist, formerly identified as Robert Millar. She raced the Tour de France eleven times along with many other professional races. Winner of the King of the Mountains prize in the Tour de France in 1984, and finishing fourth overall that year, second in the 1985 and 1986 Tours of Spain, and in the 1987 Giro d’Italia. Three mountain stage wins in the Tour de France, all in the Pyrenees. Considered the first professional cyclist to have publicly changed gender. Sports commentator for ITV4.
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