Matthew Gilmore

Matthew Gilmore

Matthew Gilmore (2019)
To person
Date of birth	September 11, 1972
nation	Australia
discipline	Train (endurance)
End of career	2007
Team (s) as coach
2013–	Tasmanian Institute of Sport
Last updated: August 18, 2018

Matthew Gilmore (born September 11, 1972 in Gent ) is a Belgian - Australian - cycling trainer who was mainly active as a cyclist on the track and in six-day races .

Athletic career

1993 Matthew Gilmore was Australian champion in two-man team driving , together with Danny Clark . In 1997 he won his first six-day race in his native city of Ghent together with Etienne De Wilde, 14 years his senior . The Australian Association wanted to win Gilmore for the Australian Institute of Sport . Since he preferred to compete in the lucrative six-day races in Europe, he decided in 1998 to start for the Belgian federation. Another reason was that he did not want to go under the wing of the Australian national coach Charlie Walsh and was therefore regularly not nominated for international competitions.

In the same year, Gilmore and De Wilde won the gold medal in the two-man team at the track cycling world championships in Bordeaux . Two years later, Gilmore won his first individual medal at a World Track Championship with silver in the points race . At the Olympic Games in Athens he won the silver medal in Madison with De Wilde. The two were also able to secure the title of European champion, which they defended the following year; then De Wilde resigned from active cycling. In total, Gilmore contested 107 six-day races during his career.

From 2004 on, Gilmore competed in the six-day races frequently with Scott McGrory and Iljo Keisse , who also comes from Ghent. In 2003 he won the Ghent Six Days with Bradley Wiggins . At the 2005 World Championships, he was third in the Madison with Keisse; Gilmore also third in the scratch . In the 2005/2006 season they won three six-day races and at the European Championships; Overall, Gilmore won 18 six-day races, most of them together with Scott McGrory. Gilmore was most recently under contract with the Belgian Professional Continental Team Chocolade Jacques . He broke his kneecap in a race in Ninove in July 2006.

Professional

Due to his injury in 2006, Gilmore had to give up his sporting career and initially worked as an assistant coach for the Australian national team. He has been the head coach at the Tasmanian Institute of Sport since 2013 .

family

Matthew Gilmore is a son of former Australian cyclist Graeme Gilmore and a nephew of cyclist Tom Simpson . Since his father competed in many six-day races in Europe from the mid-1960s, he lived with his wife in Ghent, which is why Matthew Gilmore was born and raised there until he was seven years old. Gilmore's son Zack won the team pursuit silver medal at the 2018 Oceania Championships after recovering from lymphatic cancer .

successes

train

1990

• Junior World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Stuart O'Grady , Damian McDonald and Tim O'Shannessey )

1993

• Australian Champion - Two Team Driving (with Danny Clark )

1998

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with Etienne De Wilde )
• European Champion - two-man team driving (with Etienne De Wilde )

2001

• European Champion - two-man team driving (with Etienne De Wilde )

2002

• European Champion - Derny Race (behind Joop Zijlaard )

2005

• World Championship - Scratch, two-man team driving (with Iljo Keisse )

Street

1994

• one stage of the Bay Cycling Classic

Six day victories

No.	year	place	Together with
1	1997	Ghent	Etienne De Wilde
2	2000	Ghent	Silvio Martinello
3	2001	Mexico	Scott McGrory
4th	2001	Amsterdam	Scott McGrory
5	2001	Bremen	Scott McGrory
6th	2001	Ghent	Scott McGrory
7th	2001	Zurich	Scott McGrory
8th	2001	Aguascalientes	Scott McGrory
9	2002	Munich	Scott McGrory
10	2002	Copenhagen	Scott McGrory
11	2002	Fiorenzuola d'Arda	Scott McGrory
12	2003	Stuttgart	Scott McGrory
13	2003	Ghent	Bradley Wiggins
14th	2004	Munich	Scott McGrory
15th	2005	Fiorenzuola d'Arda	Iljo Keisse
16	2005	Grenoble	Iljo Keisse
17th	2005	Ghent	Iljo Keisse
18th	2006	Hasselt	Iljo Keisse

Web links

Commons : Matthew Gilmore  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Matthew Gilmore in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Matthew Gilmore in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Matthew Gilmore in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} How Australia lost an Olympic silver medallist to Belgium. In: smh.com.au. May 11, 2002, accessed August 18, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Jacq van Reijendam: 6-daagsen-statistieken, No. 18 . Ed .: Union Internationale des Vélodromes . 2010, p. 24 .
3. ^ Rob Shaw: Gilmore returns as head cycling coach. November 25, 2013, accessed August 18, 2018 . 
4. ^ Kieran Iles: Third generation Gilmore to make Bendigo International Madison debut. In: bendigoadvertiser.com.au. March 6, 2018, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Jarryd McGuane: Stewart, Baker claim Oceania gold medal. In: examiner.com.au. October 10, 2018, accessed October 14, 2018 .