Peter Dawson (cyclist)

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Peter Dawson Road cycling
To person
Full name Peter Douglas Dawson
Nickname Smokey
Date of birth 4th February 1982 (age 38)
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
End of career 2008
Most important successes
Olympic games
2004 gold - team pursuit
UCI track world championships
2002, 2003, 2004 World Champion - team pursuit
2006 World Champion - team pursuit
Last updated: December 19, 2018

Peter Douglas Dawson OAM (born February 4, 1982 in Pinjarra ) is a retired Australian cyclist who competed on track and road . He is an Olympic champion and has been four times world champion in his favorite discipline team pursuit .

Athletic career

In 1999 Peter Dawson became world champion in the team pursuit for the first time, still in the juniors, the following year he won the silver medal in the points race at the Junior World Championships .

In 2002 Dawson was the first time world champion in the team pursuit in the elite class. At the UCI Track World Championships 2003 in Stuttgart , the Australian four-man with Dawson, Graeme Brown , Brett Lancaster and Luke Roberts was able to defend the title with a new world record (3: 57.280 minutes).

At the UCI Track World Championships in 2004 , the four-man with Dawson in his ranks succeeded in further defending his title. In the same year the Australian team won the Olympic Games in Athens . At the 2006 World Track Cycling Championships in Bordeaux , he became world champion in team pursuit for the fourth time.

In 2002 and 2006 , Peter Dawson started at the Commonwealth Games . In 2002 he also won gold there in the team pursuit (with Brown, Roberts, Mark Renshaw and Wooldridge), with the Australian four-man setting a new games record with 3: 59.583, in 2006 the team took silver.

On the road , Dawson drove for the Australian Continental Team Southaustralia.com in 2006 and 2007 and for the US Rock Racing Team in 2008, the last year of his international career . However, he achieved his most important road success in 2004 with a stage win at the Giro delle Regioni .

Professional

Peter Dawson is the national coach of Western Australia ( 2018 ).

Awards

In 2003 the Western Australian Sports Federation presented Dawson with the ANZ Sports Star Award for best performance of the year in Western Australian sport. In 2006 he was awarded the Order of Australia .

successes

train

1999
2000
  • silver Junior World Championship - points race
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006

Street

2004
2005

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Australian Olympic Committee: Peter Dawson. In: olympics.com.au. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Australia defends four-man title with world record - cycling at. In: rad-net.de. August 2, 2003, accessed December 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ WA Junior Track Cycling Flying On and Off the Track. In: westcycle.org.au. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Previous Winners - Western Australian Sports Federation. In: archive.is. December 30, 2012, archived from the original on March 10, 2013 ; accessed on December 20, 2018 .
  5. ^ Gerard Knapp: South Australia.com-AIS Cycling Team in New Zealand. In: cyclingnews.com. January 11, 2006, accessed December 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dawson, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dawson, Peter Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinjarra