Ryan Bayley

Ryan Bayley

To person
Full name	Ryan Neville Bayley
Date of birth	March 9, 1982
nation	Australia
discipline	train
End of career	2008
Most important successes
Olympic games 2004 - Sprint, Keirin UCI track world championships 2001 - Keirin
Last updated: January 19, 2018

Ryan Neville Bayley OAM (born March 9, 1982 in Perth ) is a former Australian track cyclist and two-time Olympic champion.

Athletic career

Ryan Bayley began competing at the age of 15. Bayley celebrated his first international success in 2001 at the track cycling world championships when he won the title in the Keirin . A year later, he won the sprint and team sprint at the Commonwealth Games . In 2004 at the Olympic Games his two most important successes so far followed with the Olympic victories in Sprint and Keirin. In 2006 at the Commonwealth Games , he won again in the Sprint and Keirin.

Honors

In 2004 Ryan Bayley received the "Hubert Opperman Award" ("Oppy Oscar"), named after the legendary Australian cycling star Hubert Opperman , for the best performance of the year in Australian sport. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame in 2016 .

Private

His sister, the former cyclist Kristine Bayley , has been married to Shane Perkins , who is also a successful track cyclist , since 2009 . Perkins and Bayley were so antagonistic that they fought at the velodrome and did not speak for a long time.

successes

2000

• Junior World Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Jason Niblett and Mark Renshaw )

2001

• World Champion - Keirin
• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Sean Eadie and Jobie Dajka )

2002

• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Sean Eadie and Jobie Dajka )
• Commonwealth Games Winner - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Sean Eadie and Jobie Dajka )

2004

• Olympic Champion - Sprint, Keirin
• World Championship - Sprint

2005

• Oceania Champion - Sprint, Keirin

2006

• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Shane Kelly and Shane Perkins )
• Commonwealth Games Winner - Sprint, Keirin
• Commonwealth Games Winner - Team Sprint (with Shane Kelly and Shane Perkins )

2007

• Track Cycling World Cup in Sydney - Team Sprint (with Daniel Ellis and Shane Kelly )
• Oceania Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Daniel Ellis and Shane Kelly )
• Australian champion - sprint

Web links

• Ryan Bayley in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Ryan Bayley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on the website of the Australian Association ( Memento of December 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Western Australian Sports Organization: "Sports Stars of the Year from 1956" ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Sport Australia Hall of Fame - SAHOF Breaking News. In: sahof.org.au. January 9, 2018, accessed January 19, 2018 . 
3. ^ Ryan Bayley to be inducted into Australian Sport Hall of Fame. In: Cycling News. October 21, 2015, accessed January 19, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Ron Reed: Shane Perkins hears the bells ringing. Herald Sund, December 4, 2009, accessed April 25, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Chris Wilson: Sprint cyclists Ryan Bayley, Shane Perkins in bitter row. couriermail.com.au, February 9, 2008, accessed April 25, 2014 .