Michael Barry

Michael Barry
	Michael Barry
To person
Full name	Michael Gerard Barry
Date of birth	18th December 1975
nation	Canada
discipline	Train , road
End of career	2012
doping
9/2012 - 3/2013	Ineligibility after confession (doping until 2006)
Societies)
1992-1998	Trillium Development Team
Team (s)
1999–2001 ; 2002–2006 ; 2007–2009 ; 2010–2012	Saturn Cycling; US Postal / Discovery Channel ; T-Mobile / Team High Road ; Ineos
Most important successes
	Canadian road champion U-23 1997 ; team time trial Giro d'Italia 2009
	Last updated: October 26, 2012

Michael Barry (born December 18, 1975 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian cyclist .

During his career he worked in several large cycling teams , mainly as a helper. After retiring from his career, he admitted that he had been an active drug user.

Career

Barry before the start of the Amstel Gold Race 2008

Barry started his career in 1992 with the Trillium Development Team in Canada, where he had some success on the track. In 1996 he took part in road world championships for the first time and took eighth place in the road race of the U23 class. His biggest success that year, however, was at the national championships in Canada , where he won the road race. In 1998 Barry signed with the American Saturn Cycling Team . There he won a stage at the International Cycling Classic and the overall classification at the Grand Prix de L'Amiante in his first season . Barry stayed with Saturn for four years and won other races such as the Carter Lake Road Race .

Barry at the Tour de Romandie 2009

Since 2002 Michael Barry was with the US Postal Service , the later Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team , under contract. There he took part in both the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España . There he won the team time trial twice and previously at the Vuelta a Catalunya . In 2005 he achieved the first individual victory for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team at the Tour of Austria on stage 5. In the 2007 season, Michael Barry started for the German T-Mobile team .

Barry at the prologue of the Tour de Romandie 2011

Three times - in 1996 in Atlanta , 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing - Barry competed in road races at the Olympic Games . In 2008, with ninth place, he achieved his best Olympic placement and one of the greatest successes of his career. After the disqualification of the original silver medal winner Davide Rebellin for doping, Barry even moved up to eighth place in the results lists.

Barry also represented his country at numerous road cycling world championships and his best result here was seventh in the road race in his Canadian homeland, Hamilton 2003 . In 2009 in Mendrisio he turned 18.

Barry barely missed the national elite championship title of his country in road racing in 2001 and in his final season in 2012 as runner-up, and in 2003 he also reached fifth place.

In the course of the doping case against Armstrong, shortly after retiring in October 2012, Barry, like many of his former US Postal teammates, admitted to taking banned substances during his active career up to 2006.

Trivia

Michael Barry is married to the former American cyclist Deirdre Demet-Barry . He is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play . Like his former teammate Tom Danielson, he lives in Boulder (Colorado) and for the season in Girona, Spain .