Darryn Hill

Darryn Hill

Darryn Hill (r.) Trying to stand with Jan van Eijden
To person
Full name	Darryn William Hill
Date of birth	August 11, 1974
nation	Australia
discipline	train
Driver type	driver
Most important successes
1995: World Champion - Sprint 1996: World Champion - Team Sprint
Last updated: June 7, 2011

Darryn William Hill (born August 11, 1974 in Perth ) is a former Australian track cyclist and two-time world champion.

In 1991 and 1992 Darryn Hill finished on the podium at the Junior Track World Championships in the sprint and 1000 meter time trial . In 1994 he was third in the sprint at the Commonwealth Games and second at the UCI Track World Championships in Palermo . In 1995, in Bogotá , he won the sprint world title, and a year later the team sprint (with Gary Neiwand and Shane Kelly ).

In 1996, in Manchester , and in 1997 , in his hometown of Perth, Hill succeeded again in being third in the sprint at the track cycling world championships. At the Olympic Games in front of a home crowd in Sydney in 2000 , he won the bronze medal in the team sprint (with Gary Neiwand and Sean Eadie ), after he had already finished fifth in the sprint at the 1996 Atlanta Games .

In 1994 and 1995 Hill received the "Hubert Opperman Award" (called "Oppy Oscar"), named after the legendary Australian cycling star Hubert Opperman , for the best performance of the year in Australian sport.

Darryn Hill is known for his quick temper; he was involved in several brawls. In 2000 he attacked his teammate Ben Kersten during training and was fined by the Australian Cycling Federation.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports Stars of the Year from 1956 on wasportsfed.asn.au (English) ( Memento from January 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Times Olympics.co.ok: "Cyclists in a spin" queried on February 22, 2010 (English)