Damian McDonald

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Damian McDonald Road cycling
To person
Date of birth May 12, 1972
date of death March 23, 2007
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Street
Driver type Tour driver
Societies)
1992-1996 Blackburn Cycling Club
Team (s)
1996
1997 		Giant - AIS
ZVVZ- Giant - AIS
Last updated: July 21, 2011

Damian McDonald (born May 12, 1972 in Wangaratta , † March 23, 2007 in Melbourne ) was an Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

His career began very successfully when he won the road race of the national cycling championships in 1990. In the same year he finished third with the Australian team in the team time trial of the UCI Junior Road World Championships held in Middlesbrough . In 1993 he finished the Rapport Tour in South Africa in fourth place overall and drove with the Australian team in the team time trial of the road world championships in Oslo to sixth place.

In 1994 McDonald celebrated his greatest triumph when he won the gold medal in the same discipline at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, together with Phil Anderson , Dennis Brett and Henk Vogels . In the following year he only finished 42nd in the road race at the World Championships , but with this placement Australia secured the maximum number of starters in the road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . He finished in 65th place and won the overall ranking of the Tour de Langkawi, which was held for the first time in the same year . In 1997, McDonald withdrew from international sports.

Personal

At the Australian Institute of Sport Damian McDonald met his future wife Bree; the marriage took place in 2002. Their son Lachlan was born in October 2005. Bree McDonald was the manager of the Melbourne Phoenix netball team . Damian McDonald died on March 23, 2007 in the Burnley Tunnel in the South Australian city of Melbourne in a pile-up with a subsequent tunnel fire. He was one of three fatalities in this accident.

Palmarès

1990

1994

  • gold Commonwealth Games - Team Time Trial

1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-professional cyclist Damian McDonald dies in a tunnel fire. radsport-news.com, March 25, 2007, accessed December 17, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME McDonald, Damian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Wangaratta , Australia
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2007
Place of death Melbourne , Australia