Robbie McEwen

Robbie McEwen
To person
Date of birth	24th June 1972 (age 48)
nation	Australia
discipline	Street
Driver type	sprinter
Team (s)
1996–1999 ; 2000–2001 ; 2002–2008 ; 2009–2010 ; 2011 ; 2012	Rabobank ; Domo-Farm Frites ; Silence-Lotto ; Katjuscha ; Team RadioShack ; Orica GreenEdge
Most important successes
	Grands Tours Scoring Tour de France 2002, 2004, 2006 ; 12 stages Tour de France Australian Championship Australian Road Champion 1995, 2002, 2005 Paris – Brussels 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 ; Vattenfall Cyclassics 2008
	Last updated: January 16, 2018

Robbie McEwen (born June 24, 1972 in Brisbane ) is a retired Australian cyclist .

Career

McEwen was a BMX athlete as a youth and was Australian junior champion in this discipline. At the age of 18 he switched to road cycling . As an amateur , McEwen won three stages of the International Peace Ride in 1994 and one stage of the Tour de l'Avenir in the same year . After becoming the Australian road champion in 1995, winning three stages at the Rapport-Toer and one stage win each at the Regio-Tour and the Tour de l'Avenir , he became a professional with the Dutch cycling team Rabobank in 1996 .

His breakthrough came in the 1999 Tour de France with his first stage win on the final section. Over the next few years, he developed into one of the best road sprinters of his generation. Because of his speed, he won a total of twelve stages each of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia . He also won the Tour de France points classification three times .

McEwen was also successful in the one-day races . He was Australian road champion three times and won the Paris-Brussels semi-classic five times . At the UCI Road World Championships in 2002 in Zolder , he was second and only beaten by Mario Cipollini in the sprint .

On May 20, 2012, he contested his last international race at the Tour of California and then ended his career as a professional cyclist. At this point he is the most successful Australian road cyclist of all time after victories. He was able to celebrate 152 victories in total.

Despite his official resignation, Robbie McEwen continued to race in his home country. In 2013 he won the Noosa International Criterium in Australia.

Private

Robbie McEwen lived in Belgium for many years and speaks fluent Flemish . He now lives again in his native Australia with his Belgian wife and their three children (as of 2013). In December 2011 he published his autobiography One Way Road: The Autobiography of Three Time Tour de France Green Jersey Winner Robbie McEwen in collaboration with Edward Pickering .