Michael Gallagher (cyclist, 1978)

Michael Gallagher

Michael Gallagher (2012)
To person
Date of birth	December 14, 1978
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
End of career	2016
doping
2016	EPO
Most important successes
Summer Paralympics 2008 : - Single track track (LC1) 2008 : - Road Race (LC1 / LC2 / CP4) 2012 : - Single track track (C5) 2012 : - Individual time trial (C5)
Last updated: October 8, 2017

Michael Gallagher (born December 14, 1978 in Whitburn , Scotland ) is a former Australian disabled cyclist .

Athletic career

Michael Gallagher finished third in a stage of the Top End Tour in 2007 and second in the Mount William Road Classic. The following year he won at the Summer Paralympics in Beijing on the track the gold medal in the individual pursuit of class LC1 and on the road , he won the bronze medal in the road race of the class LC1 / LC2 / CP4. Gallagher has been riding for the Romanian Tusnad Cycling Team since 2010 . Jiří Ježek and Carol Eduard Novak also rode there in 2010, and they were both medalists at the 2008 Paralympics.

At the UCI Paracycling World Championships in 2015 , Gallagher was world champion (C5) in the single pursuit , in the scratch he won bronze.

doping

In August 2016, Gallagher was suspended by Cycling Australia and the Australian Paralympic Committee because a doping sample from July tested positive for EPO . The suspension went into effect immediately, so Gallagher could not compete in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro .

Gallagher's sporting career was over. He went back to his original job as a building appraiser.

successes

Street

2008

• Paralympics - Road Races (Class LC1 / LC2 / CP4)

train

2008

• Paralympics - Single Pursuit Track (Class LC1)

2011

• World Champion - Single Pursuit (Class C5)

2012

• Paralympics - Single Pursuit Track (Class C5)
• Paralympics - Road Individual Time Trial (Class C5)

2015

• World Champion - Single Pursuit (Class C5)
• 3rd place WM - Scratch (class C4-5)

Teams

• 2010 Tusnad Cycling Team

Web links

• Michael Gallagher in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Michael Gallagher. In: Cycling Australia. Retrieved August 13, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paralympian Michael Gallagher's A sample positive for EPO. In: sbs.com.au. July 25, 2016, accessed September 3, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Paralympian Michael Gallagher opens up about his EPO doping: 'It's a good thing I got caught'. In: Cycling Tips. December 6, 2016, accessed January 5, 2017 .