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Personal information | |
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Full name | Bradley John McGee |
Born | Sydney | 24 February 1976
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road and track |
Role | Directeur sportif |
Rider type | Time trialist |
Professional teams | |
1999–2007 | Française des Jeux |
2008 | Team CSC |
Managerial team | |
2009–2012 | Saxo Bank–SunGard |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Medal record |
Bradley John McGee OAM (born 24 February 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS).[1] He started cycling in 1986 at the age of ten. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]His greatest success as a road cyclist has been winning the 2003 prologue of the Tour de France, and leading the race for three days in 2003. In 2004, he wore the leader's pink jersey of the Giro d'Italia for one day.[citation needed] In 2005, he wore the leader's golden jersey for four days in the Vuelta a España. He was the first Australian to lead the Tour of Spain, and the first to wear the leader's jersey of all three Grand Tours.[citation needed]
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As a track cyclist and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder he met success in individual and team events. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record time of 3:58.233. He won a silver medal for the Olympic 4000m pursuit. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in his home town of Sydney, he set an Australian record of 4 minutes 19.25 seconds, and won a bronze medal for the pursuit. In Atlanta at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won two bronze medals, for the individual pursuit and the team pursuit.
At the 1994 Commonwealth Games, he won gold medals in the individual and team pursuit. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games he defended his Commonwealth titles to win gold in both events. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games he won the individual pursuit.
He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include:
- 1993 Australian Male Cyclist of the year
- 1994 NSW junior male cyclist of the year
- 1995 NSW cyclist of the year
- 2002 Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year
- 2017 Sport Australia Hall of Fame athlete inductee[2]
Bradley McGee is today a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation.[3]
Major results
[edit]Track
[edit]- 1993
- 1st
Individual pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships
- National Junior Track Championships
- 1995
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- National Track Championships
- 1996
- Olympic Games
- 1997
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit – Quartu Sant'Elena, UCI Track World Cup Classics
- 1998
- Commonwealth Games
- 2000
- 3rd
Individual pursuit, Olympic Games
- 2002
- 1st
Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit, Commonwealth Games
- 2004
- Olympic Games
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 2nd
Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 1st
Individual pursuit – Manchester, UCI Track World Cup Classics
- 2007
- 3rd
Individual pursuit – Manchester, UCI Track World Cup Classics
- 2008
- 1st
Team pursuit – Los Angeles, UCI Track World Cup Classics
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
Road
[edit]- 1993
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 1996
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Cologne
- 1998
- 9th Chrono des Nations
- 1999
- Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 10
- 1st Prologue Tour de Normandie
- 8th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 2000
- 1st Stage 5 Herald Sun Tour
- 2001
- 1st Stage 4 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
- 1st Stage 2b (ITT) Route du Sud
- 4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 7th Paris–Camembert
- 10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Jacky Durand)
- 2002
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de France
- Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 2nd Overall GP Erik Breukink
- 10th Overall Critérium International
- 10th Tour de Vendée
- 2003
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tour de Suisse
- 2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 6
- 3rd Overall Tour de Picardie
- 5th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Baden Cooke)
- 6th Grand Prix du Morbihan
- 8th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 8th Grand Prix de Rennes
- 2004
- 1st
Overall Route du Sud
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 8th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 8th Grand Prix des Nations
- 9th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue
- 2005
- 1st Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts
- 8th Overall Tour de Suisse
- Vuelta a España
- 2006
- 8th Overall La Méditerranéenne
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]Grand Tour | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
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127 | — | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | DNF |
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— | 83 | 109 | 133 | — | 105 | — | — | — |
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— | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | DNF | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ "Porte secures white jersey and likely top-eight finish". 29 May 2010.
- ^ "Cycling champion Brad McGee pedals into Hall of Fame". Sport Australia Hall of Fame website. 10 October 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ Peace and Sport
External links
[edit]- Brad McGee at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
- Brad McGee at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Bradley McGee at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Bradley McGee at trap-friis.dk
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