Graeme Brown

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Graeme Brown (2010)
Graeme Brown (2010)
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Full name Graeme Allen Brown
Nickname Brownie
Date of birth 9th April 1979 (age 41)
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
End of career 2016
Most important successes

2003: World Champion World Champion - Team Pursuit
2004: Olympic Champion - Team Pursuit 2004: Olympic Champion - Madison IOCIOC
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Last updated: November 11, 2018

Graeme Allen Brown (born April 9, 1979 in Darwin ) is a former Australian track and road cyclist and two-time Olympic champion.

Athletic career

Graeme Brown started his cycling activities with BMX . However, his dearest wish was to take part in the Olympic Games, and since this was not an Olympic discipline at the time, he first switched to the track .

Graeme Brown's international sporting career began in 1997, when he and Scott Davis , Brett Lancaster and Michael Rogers Junior World Champion in the Team Pursuit was. He won gold three times in track cycling world cups and twice in the Commonwealth Games . In 2003 he became world champion in the team pursuit in Stuttgart with Peter Dawson , Brett Lancaster and Stephen Wooldridge . The team set a new world record with 3: 57.185 minutes . The crowning glory on the track were two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Athens : he won the two-man team race with Stuart O'Grady and the team pursuit with Brett Lancaster , Bradley McGee and Luke Roberts .

In 2002 Brown got a contract with Ceramiche Panaria , where he drove for four years. He achieved most of his successes on the road outside of Europe. He won a stage at the Tour Down Under 2003. Between 2002 and 2005 he decided a total of nine stages of the Tour de Langkawi , five of them in the 2005 tour. The UCI Asia Tour 2005 he finished sixth overall.

From 2006 to 2012 Brown drove for the Dutch team Rabobank . For this UCI ProTeam he achieved successes in important stage races in Europe and America. Among other things, he won the two stages of the Germany Tour 2006 and other sections of the California Tour , the Murcia Tour and the Tour of Poland . He started nine major country tours (but not a Tour de France ), none of which he finished. In 2016 he ended his cycling career.

Graeme Brown is married to former British cyclist Hayley Rutherford; the couple has three sons ( as of 2016 ).

successes

train

1997
1999
2000
2002
2003
2004

Street

Graeme Brown at the Eneco Tour 2009
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF DNF - - DNF - - - 130 DNF DNF -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - - - - - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - - - - DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Aaron S. Lee: Graeme Brown on retirement: 'I'm going out of the sport the way I came in and that's swinging!' In: CyclingTips. October 31, 2016, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Australia defends four-man title with world record. In: rad-net.de. August 2, 2003, accessed November 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Graeme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Graeme Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Darwin , Australia