Shane Perkins

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Shane Perkins Road cycling
Shane Perkins (2018)
Shane Perkins (2018)
To person
Nickname Percussion
Date of birth December 30, 1986
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia Russia (since August 18, 2017)
RussiaRussia 
discipline train
Driver type Short term
doping
6 months 2004/05 Methamphetamine
Societies)
Carnegie Caulfield CC
Most important successes
Olympic games
2012 bronze - Sprint
UCI track world championships
2012 World Champion - team sprint
2011 World Champion - Keirin
Last updated: October 28, 2017

Shane Perkins ( Russian Шейн Перкинс Schein Perkins ; born December 30, 1986 in Melbourne ) is a Russian- Australian track cyclist .

Athletic career

Before Shane Perkins, son of the 1964 cyclist and Olympian Daryl Perkins , decided to track cycling, he practiced several sports; He was particularly successful in basketball up to the age of 14 . In 1999 he started cycling.

In 2004 Shane Perkins was double world champion in the sprint and keirin at the junior track world championships in Los Angeles , in the team sprint he took third place with the Australian team. After the World Cup he was banned for six months because of a positive doping test. He had bought his usual nasal spray in the USA, but it had a different composition there than in Australia. He was also Australian junior champion in the sprint and 1 km time trial three times in 2003 and 2004 .

Perkins has been competing in the elite class since 2006 and has been Australian champion eleven times in sprint, time trial, keirin and team sprint ( as of 2016 ). Internationally he won several podium places in World Cup races ; he finished the 2006/2007 season as the overall winner in the Keirin, the 2008/2009 season as the overall winner in the sprint. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in his hometown, he was the youngest Australian cyclist to win a bronze medal in the team sprint. Four years later, at the 2010 Commonwealth Games , he won the sprint. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2011 , Perkins was world champion in Keirin. The following year he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London and was world champion in the team sprint together with Matthew Glaetzer and Scott Sunderland .

Although Perkins was the Australian Keirin Champion in 2016, he was not nominated for the 2016 UCI Track World Championships in London . This made it impossible for him to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

In August 2017, it was announced that Shane Perkins has accepted Russian citizenship and will start for Russia in the future, but will retain his Australian citizenship. His goal is to participate in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo . Shortly before that, he had already taken part in the Russian track championships, had become champion in the keirin and team sprint, and was third in the sprint.

In autumn 2017 Perkins won the silver medal in Keirin at the European Railway Championships .

Private

Shane Perkins has been married to former Australian cyclist Kristine Bayley since 2009 . Perkins' greatest rival on the Australian team was his brother-in-law Ryan Bayley , his wife's brother. There were several unfair incidents on the track between the two drivers. The two men haven't spoken to each other for years. After a fight outside a nightclub in Adelaide in May 2007, Perkins was banned from the Australian national team for three months and also had to pay a fine.

successes

2003
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Junior Champion - 1000m Time Trial, Sprint
2004
2006
2007
  • silver Oceanic Cycling Championship - Sprint
  • bronze Oceanic Cycling Championship - Keirin
  • MaillotAustralia.PNGAustralian Champion - Team Sprint (with Mark French and Joel Leonard )
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
  • bronze Oceanic Cycling Championships - Sprint
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian champion - Keirin
2016
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian champion - Keirin
2017
2018

Web links

Commons : Shane Perkins  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Meutgens : Doping im Radsport , Bielefeld 2007, p. 278. ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6
  2. ^ Australian Associated Press: Australia's Shane Perkins overlooked for world track cycling championships. In: The Guardian . February 10, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Shane Perkins granted Russian citizenship by President Putin. In: Cycling News. August 19, 2017, accessed on August 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Sputnik: Cyclist Perkins becomes a Russian citizen - a challenge for German sprinters? In: de.sputniknews.com. August 18, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Putin grants Aussie sprinter Perkins Russian citizenship. In: Velo News. August 17, 2017, accessed August 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The Sydney Morning Herald: "Tension between Bayley and Perkins spills on to the track", accessed on March 12, 2010 (English)
  7. ↑ Chris Wilson: Sprint cyclists Ryan Bayley, Shane Perkins in bitter row. couriermail.com.au, February 9, 2008, accessed April 25, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Perkins, Shane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perkins, Schein (Russian-Latin); Перкинс, Шейн (Russian-Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne