Scott McGrory

Scott McGrory

To person
Date of birth	22nd December 1969
nation	Australia
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
Most important successes
Olympic games 2000 - two-man team driving 1988 - team pursuit
Last updated: August 5, 2017

Scott McGrory , OAM (born December 22, 1969 in Walwa , Victoria ) is a retired Australian cyclist and Olympic champion.

Athletic career

As an 18-year-old Scott McGrory won bronze at the 1988 Olympics in the four-man team pursuit . In 1994 he switched to the professionals. At the 2000 Olympic Games in his home country, he and Brett Aitken won the gold medal in the two-man team .

In Europe, McGrory was best known as a driver in six-day races, of which he won 15. His standard partner was the Belgian of Australian origin Matthew Gilmore , with whom he started 29 times and won ten times.

Professional

In 2004 McGrory retired from active cycling. Since then he is u. a. worked as a cycling commentator for Australian television. Since 2008 he has been working as a trainer at the Victorian Institute of Sport . Under the name OzCycling.com he produced video clips about major cycling races for the Internet. He was the presenter of the program full cycle for the television station Nine Network . He was also part of the Seven Network 's team of commentators at the 2016 Olympic Games .

McGrory is also the Sporting Director of the Australian Road Championships and, since 2019, the Herald Sun Tour with John Trevorrow .

Honors

After his Olympic victory in 2000, Scott McGrory was honored with the Medal of the Order of Australia . In 2019 he was inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame .

successes

train 1988 Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Brett Dutton , Wayne McCarney , Stephen McGlede, and Dean Woods ) 1995 Australian Champion - two-man team driver (with Stephen Pate ) 1996 World Championship - two-man team driving (with Stephen Pate ) 1999 Six days of Gent (with Jimmi Madsen ) 2000 Olympic champion - two-man team driving (with Brett Aitken ) Six days race 1992 Nouméa (with Michel Dubreuil ) 1993 Zurich (with Andreas Aeschbach ) 2001 Aguascalientes (with Matthew Gilmore ) Amsterdam (with Matthew Gilmore ) Bremen (with Matthew Gilmore ) Gent (with Matthew Gilmore ) Mexico City (with Matthew Gilmore ) Zurich (with Matthew Gilmore and Daniel Schnider ) 2002 Munich (with Matthew Gilmore ) Copenhagen (with Matthew Gilmore ) Fiorenzuola d'Arda (with Matthew Gilmore ) 2003 Stuttgart (with Matthew Gilmore ) Turin (with Anthony Gibb ) 2004 Dortmund (with Rolf Aldag ) Munich (with Matthew Gilmore )

Street 1994 one stage Herald Sun Tour two stage Tour des Pyrénées 1995 one stage Herald Sun Tour 1996 one stage of the Bay Cycling Classic 1997 one stage Herald Sun Tour 1999 a stage tour of Bavaria one stage of the Bay Cycling Classic

Web links

• Scott McGrory in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Scott McGrory in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Scott McGrory in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scott McGrory OAM ( memento of July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on November 6, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b} Inside Le Tour With Ozcycling.com's Scott McGrory. In: pezcyclingnews.com. July 15, 2009, accessed August 5, 2017 . 
3. ^ Roadkill: Seven announces Rio Olympics presentation team. In: tvtonight.com.au. April 15, 2016, accessed August 5, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Get to know Jayco Herald Sun Tour's John Trevorrow and Scott McGrory. - Herald Sun Tour, November 26, 2018, accessed February 12, 2020 . 
5. ^ Class of 2019 inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame. In: cycling.org.au. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .