Brett Aitken

Brett Aitken

To person
Date of birth	January 25, 1971
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
Team (s)
1998 1999 2003 2006–2009	Palmans-Ideal ( Stagiaire ) Palmans-Ideal Giant Asia Racing Team Savings & Loans
Most important successes
World Champion - Team Pursuit Olympic Champion - Madison
Last updated: May 20, 2011

Brett Aitken (born January 25, 1971 in Adelaide ) is a former Australian track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Brett Aitken won the bronze medal in the team pursuit with the Australian national team at the track cycling world championships in 1990 and 1991 . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , he won the silver medal. Then in 1993 he became world champion in team pursuit, and a year later he won his third bronze medal. He also won bronze at the 1996 Olympics . In 2000, Aitken was Australian champion in scratch and Olympic champion in Madison with Scott McGrory .

On the road, Aitken won two stages in the Geelong Bay Classic Series in 1998 and won the overall standings. He did the same in 2000. A year later he was successful in the one-day race Colac Otway Classic and in 2002 he won a stage in the Geelong Bay Classic Series and two stages in the Tour of Tasmania . In the 2003 season Aitken drove for the Giant Asia Racing Team , where he won the Great Grampians Little Dessert Classic, a stage in the Geelong Bay Classic Series and three parts of the Tour of Sunraysia. From 2006 to 2009 Aitken was under contract with the Australian Continental Team Savings & Loans . In his first year there, he won a stage on the Top End Tour and he was successful on three sections of the Tour of the Murray River . In 2007 he won a stage there and one in the Tour of Tasmania. In the last year of his career, he won a stage of the Bay Cycling Classic.

Honors

In 2019 Aitken was inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Brett Aitken in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Brett Aitken in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Class of 2019 inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame. In: cycling.org.au. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .