Scott Davis (cyclist)

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Scott Davis Road cycling
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To person
Date of birth April 22, 1979
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Street
Team (s)
2003–2004
2005
2006–2007
2008
2009
2010 		Panaria-Fiordo
Tenax-Salmilano
T-Mobile Team
Columbia-Highroad
Fly V Australia
Pro Team Astana
Most important successes
UCI Track World Championships for Juniors
1997 World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Brett Lancaster , Graeme Brown and Michael Rogers )
Last updated: November 24, 2015

Scott Davis (born April 22, 1979 in Bundaberg , Australia ) is a retired Australian cyclist .

Career

Davis was Junior World Champion in team pursuit in 1997 with his Australian national teammates Brett Lancaster , Michael Rogers and Graeme Brown .

In 1999 he won a stage of the Tasmania Tour . After he rode as a stagiaire with the Mercury Cycling Team at the end of the 2000 season, Davis received his first regular contract with an international cycling team , the Italian team Panaria-Fiordo , for which he competed in the 2003 Giro d'Italia in 2003 . However, had to end the race due to exceeding the waiting period . In 2004 Davis reached the finish line in Milan as 90th overall .

After a season with the Italian-Irish Professional Continental Team Tenax-Salmilano , he joined the German ProTeam T-Mobile , later the Columbia-Highroad team , in 2005 . On the first section of the California Tour , he took second place. He started as a helper for Jan Ullrich at the Giro d'Italia 2006 , which he finished 65th overall. In the same year he finished 91st at the Vuelta a España . The following year he finished 77th at the Vuelta .

In 2009 Davis switched to the Australian professional Continental Team Fly V Australia for which he won the eighth section of the Australian Tour of Gippsland . A year later, Davis and his brother Allan were signed by the Pro Team Astana , but did not contest any Grand Tour and did not win any international races.

At the end of the season, Scott Davis retired from active cycling and competed in his final competition in the 4BU Cycling Spectacular Bundy Cup on Wheels track race. He then became the sporting director of a smaller Australian team.

successes

Davis on the 2009 Tour of California
1997
1999
2009
  • one stage Tour of Gippsland

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF 90 - 65 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - -
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - - 91 77
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Scott Davis  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scott Davis' cycling retirement. news-mail.au, December 10, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bundaberg , Australia