Billy-Joe Shearsby

Billy-Joe Shearsby

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Date of birth	September 14, 1972
nation	Australia
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
End of career	around 1995
Last updated: September 25, 2018

Billy-Joe Shearsby (born September 14, 1972 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is a former Australian cyclist.

Athletic career

In 1992 Billy Joe Shearsby won the one-day race Grafton-Inverell , an Australian classic. The following year he started at the World Railroad Championships in Hamar, Norway, and together with Brett Aitken , Stuart O'Grady and Tim O'Shannessey, he won the world title in the team pursuit in a world record time of 4: 03.840 minutes. It was the first gold medal for Australia in the discipline.

The following year Shearsby left the Australian Institute of Sport , among other things because of differences with the controversial national coach Charlie Walsh , by whom he felt badly treated and who was generally known for his rigid nature: “He literally just treated us like he hated us. "(" He literally treated us as if he hated us ") Shearsby went to the USA to race but was not very successful. After two seasons, he returned to Australia and had a nervous breakdown. As a result, he suffered from depression, anxiety, took drugs and drank alcohol. In the 2010s, Shearsby made his health problems public, even after repeated criticism of former coach Walsh and his methods.

successes

1993

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Brett Aitken , Stuart O'Grady and Tim O'Shannessey )

Web links

• Billy-Joe Shearsby in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Billy-Joe Shearsby - His Story - Chase the Dog on YouTube , June 10, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Jonathan Lovelock: The human cost of gold medals. In: Cycling Tips. March 5, 2014, accessed September 25, 2018 . 
2. ^ The Canberra Times , Dec 15, 1993, p. 40.
3. ^ ^{A b} Shane Kelly Off the Bike with Billy-Joe Shearsby. In: bikeexchange.com.au. June 25, 2015, accessed September 26, 2018 .