Aaron Gate

Aaron Gate
	Aaron gate (2020)
To person
Date of birth	26th November 1990 (age 29)
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Train / street
Driver type	Bahn: perseverance
To the team
Current team	Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy
function	driver
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2017 - Omnium 2020 - Team Pursuit 2020 - two-man team driving
	Last updated: March 6, 2020

Aaron Gate (* 26 November 1990 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand rail and road - racing cyclist and Olympic champion (2016).

Athletic career

2006 Aaron Gate was New Zealand youth champion in the team sprint , together with Myron Simpson and Colin Black ; two years later he won the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the junior track world championships in Cape Town . In 2011 he became Oceania Champion and won the track cycling World Cup 2011/2012 in Cali in the team pursuit, together with Sam Bewley , Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent . In the same year he was sixth in the Irish cycling race An Post Rás .

In 2012 Gate won a stage of the New Zealand Cycle Classic and finished seventh overall. Together with Bewley, Westley Gough and Ryan, he won the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 2012 UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne .

In 2016, Aaron Gate was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished fourth in the team pursuit together with Pieter Bulling , Regan Gough and Hayden Roulston .

In July 2018, the then 27-year-old won the mountain classification at the 70th edition of the Austria cycle tour . The following year he won the New Zealand Cycle Classic .

At the 2020 Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin, he won the silver medal in the team pursuit (with Campbell Stewart , Corbin Strong , Jordan Kerby and Regan Gough ) and together with Campbell Stewart in the two-man team (Madison).

New Zealand Champion - Scratch

Summer Olympic Games - Team Pursuit with Sam Bewley , Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent

Track World Championships - Omnium
New Zealand Champion - Single Pursuit, Points Race, Madison with Myron Simpson , Scratch

New Zealand Champion - one's pursuit
World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Corbin Strong , Campbell Stewart , Jordan Kerby and Regan Gough ), two-man team driving (with Campbell Stewart)