Bradley McGee

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Bradley McGee at the 2012 Tour de Romandie
McGee during the time trial on the 20th stage of the 2005 Tour de France

Bradley John McGee (born February 24, 1976 in Sydney , Australia ) is a former Australian cyclist and current cycling trainer. As an active cyclist, he was Olympic champion and two-time world champion on the track . As a professional, he won several international races in road cycling .

Athletic career

Bradley McGee's greatest successes as an amateur were the two gold medals at the Junior World Track Championships in 1993 and 1994. Since 1998 he has been a professional racing driver with Française des Jeux . In 2003 he won the prologue at the 2003 Tour de France and wore the yellow jersey for two days. He was also victorious in the prologue of the 2004 Giro d'Italia and defended the pink jersey for two days.

1996, at the Summer Games in Atlanta , McGee won two bronze medals ( On the one and team pursuit ). At the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney , he also won the bronze medal in the singles pursuit. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , he won silver in the singles and gold in the team pursuit.

McGee was also successful at the Commonwealth Games : In 1994 he won gold in the single pursuit as well as in the team pursuit. In 1998 he was able to defend both titles. In 2002 he took gold in the one's pursuit.

In 2004 Bradley McGee achieved overall victory at the Route du Sud . The following year he won the points classification at the Tour de Suisse in 2005 and wore the gold jersey of the Vuelta a España 2005 for four days . He proved himself to be a prologue specialist at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 2002 and the Tour de Romandie in 2004.

Bradley McGee ended his career at the end of the 2008 season and moved to the sporting direction of the Saxo Bank team , where he remained until the end of 2012. Since the beginning of 2013 he has been the head coach for cycling at the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS).

successes

Street

2001
2002
2003
2004
2005

train

1994
1995
1996
1998
  • gold Commonwealth Games - one's pursuit
  • goldCommonwealth Games - team pursuit (with Brett Lancaster, among others )
2000
2002
  • gold Commonwealth Games - one's pursuit
  • Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion - Individual Pursuit
2004
2008

Honors

In 2017 he was inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame .

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. cyclingnews.com of November 2, 2012: Brad McGee: No time like the present

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