Ross Edgar

Ross Edgar
	Ross Edgar (2009)
To person
Date of birth	January 3, 1983
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Train (short term)
End of career	2013
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2008 - Keirin
Team (s) as coach
2017-2020	National team Australia
	Last updated: October 27, 2019

Ross Edgar (born January 3, 1983 in Newmarket ) is a cycling coach and former British track cyclist from Scotland .

Athletic career

Ross Edgar was looked after at the beginning of his career in the "World Cycling Center" of the Union Cycliste Internationale in Aigle ; later he moved to Manchester to train at the National Cycling Center there.

Edgar had his first international success at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 , where he took third place in the team sprint (with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean ); at the 2006 Commonwealth Games , the three drivers finished in first place. In the following years Edgar achieved podium places at European championships, world cups and national titles in the short-term disciplines on the track.

At the UCI Track World Championships 2007 in Palma , Ross Edgar was second in the team sprint (again with Hoy and McLean) and third in the Keirin ; At the 2008 Track Cycling World Championships , the British (Edgar, Hoy and Jamie Staff ) took second place in the team sprint in front of their home crowd.

Ross Edgar took part in two Olympic Games, 2004 and 2008: At the Beijing Games, he won the silver medal in the Keirin (behind Hoy). In 2010 he won the bronze medal in the sprint at the Commonwealth Games , where he carried the flag of the Scottish team. Edgar is of Scottish descent and, although born in Suffolk, he was honored as a Schott by the Scottish Government along with Chris Hoy after the Olympic Games .

2012 ended Ross Edgar his career on the track, having not apply to the Olympic Games in London had been taken into account. The following year he started in road races, then ended his cycling career for good. Plans to incorporate him into the British endurance team did not materialize.

Professional

On August 1, 2017, Ross Edgar started working as a sprint coach for the Australian national team. In May 2020 he was fired for "restructuring". He and his family - including a four-month-old baby - then had three months to leave Australia during the global COVID-19 pandemic .