Nick Gates

Nick Gates

Nick Gates at the 2007 Bay Cycling Classic
To person
Full name	Nicholas Gates
Date of birth	March 1, 1972
nation	Australia
To the team
Current team	Saxo Bank SunGard
function	Sports director
Team (s)
1996 1997 1998–1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007 2008	Giant-Australian Institute of Sport ZVVZ-Giant-Australian Institute of Sport Die Continentale-Olympia Agro-Adler-Brandenburg Team Wiesenhof Team Wiesenhof Lotto-Domo Davitamon-Lotto Predictor-Lotto Silence-Lotto
Most important successes
Australian road champion 1996
Last updated: August 8, 2008

Nicholas "Nick" Gates (born March 1, 1972 in Sydney ) is a former sports director and Australian cyclist .

Nick Gates began his career in 1996 with the Australian cycling team Giant-Australian Institute of Sport , from 1997 ZVVZ-Giant- Australian Institute of Sport .

At the beginning of the season, Gates won the Australian road cycling championship as well as the most important Australian stage race at the time : the Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic ahead of the German Jens Voigt . In 1998 he switched to Continentale-Olympia for two years and also drove for the next three years for the smaller German teams Hohenfelder-Concorde , Agro-Adler-Brandenburg and Wiesenhof . From 2003 Gates drove for the Belgian team Lotto . In 2003 and 2004 he took part in the Tour de France , but could not finish both times. After the 2008 season he ended his career in the Nick Gates Classic race dedicated to him , which he also won. In 2010 he became Sporting Director of the Danish team Saxo Bank SunGard , which he left at the end of 2012.

successes

1996

• Australian road champion
• Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic

Web links

• Nick Gates in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Nick Gates in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gates moves on from Saxo-Tinkoff. SBS, November 24, 2012, accessed December 18, 2013 .