Phil Anderson

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Phil Anderson Road cycling
Phil Anderson in the 1993 Tour de France
Phil Anderson in the
1993 Tour de France
To person
Full name Philip Grant Anderson
Nickname Skippy
Date of birth March 12, 1958
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Street
Most important successes
Commonwealth Games
1994 gold - team time trial
1978 gold - road racing
Last updated: July 30, 2017

Philip Grant Anderson (short: Phil Anderson ) (born March 12, 1958 in London , England ) is a former Australian cyclist who was the first non- European to wear the yellow jersey of the overall leader of the Tour de France for a few days. In 1985 he became the first Australian to win the Tour de Suisse . He was a professional from 1980 to 1994 and had over 90 successes.

Athletic career

Phil Anderson grew up in Kew , a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria . After winning the gold medal in the road race of the Commonwealth Games in 1978 at the age of 20 , he switched to the pros in 1980.

After only moderate placings in the first professional year, Anderson drew attention to himself in his second season as a professional with first successes. In addition to the overall victory at the Tour de l'Aude and a stage win at Paris – Nice , Anderson tackled the Tour de France for the first time . Although he succeeded no stage victory, but he took on 30 June 1981, at the end of stage 5, the first non-European in the history of the de France Tour the yellow jersey of the overall leader of Gerrie plasticine man . However, he had to hand it over to the eventual overall winner, Bernard Hinault , on the following day .

The next year he started again in the Tour de France . On the 2nd stage from Basel to Nancy , Anderson won and, like last year, took the lead in the overall standings. Overall, he kept the yellow jersey for ten days before Hinault took it off again. Anderson finished the tour in fifth place overall and winner of the junior class.

The strongest phase in his career then followed in the mid-1980s. In 1983 he won the Amstel Gold Race and two stages at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré . In the following year, among other things, the championship in Zurich and around the Henninger tower . He crowned the season with a good third place in the Super Prestige Pernod classification . In 1985 he took second place in this classification after overall victories in the stage races Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Tour de Suisse and Mediterranean Tour , the one-day race around the Henninger Tower and E3 Prize Flanders , as well as repeating fifth overall position on the tour de France . These two fifth places were the best placements of an Australian cyclist up to 4th place for Cadel Evans in 2006. In 1986, Anderson entered the winners list of Paris – Tours , the year after he won Milan – Turin , the oldest one-day race of the world.

After the Tour de France stage win in 1982, he won stages at the Giro d'Italia in 1989 and 1990 , where he also won the Intergiro rankings in 1990 . In 1991, after nine years, he was able to win another stage in the Tour de France . In the same year he also won the Tour de Suisse, the Tour of Britain and the Mediterranean Tour.

In the following years he won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues and the Tour of Britain, before he could repeat his gold medal win at the Commonwealth Games in 1994 - this time in the team time trial with Damian McDonald , Dennis Brett and Henk Vogels - and then ended his career.

Because of his Australian origins, he was nicknamed "Skippy" in the driver field, based on Skippy, the bush kangaroo , an Australian television series that was broadcast between 1966 and 1968.

In July 2017, Anderson fell during a training ride in Victoria . He was taken to a hospital in Melbourne by helicopter . A broken collarbone and several broken ribs were found there; Anderson himself has no recollection of how the fall came about.

Awards

For his contributions to cycling and society in Australia, Anderson has received the following awards over the years:

  • 1987 Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
  • 2000 Australian Sports Medal
  • 2001 Centenary Medal

Palmarès

1977
1978
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994

Teams

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - 7th - 13 33 45 - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 10 5 9 10 5 39 27 - 38 71 - 81 84 69

literature

  • Christ's Valentine-Anderson: Phil Anderson: Cycling Legend . Lothian Publishing Co Pty. Ltd., 1999, ISBN 0-85091-933-9 (English)

Web links

Commons : Phil Anderson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Johnson: Cycling legend Phil Anderson breaks collarbone and ribs in bike crash. In: Daily Mail. July 21, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Philip Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England