Simon Gerrans

Simon Gerrans
	Simon Gerrans (2014)
To person
Date of birth	May 16, 1980
nation	Australia
discipline	Street
End of career	2018
Most important successes
	Milan – Sanremo 2012 ; Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2014 ; Grand Prix Ouest France 2009 ; Overall ranking Tour Down Under 2006 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 ; two stages Tour de France 2008 , 2013; two stages Giro d'Italia 2009 , 2015 , ; one stage Vuelta a España 2009
	Last updated: February 16, 2019

Simon Gerrans (born May 16, 1980 in Melbourne ) is a former Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

Gerrans turned pro in 2003. In 2005 he won the Tour du Finistère , a race on the UCI Europe Tour . At the Tour de France 2005 he managed a third place on the 17th stage . He finished 166th in the overall standings. He began his fourth year as a professional with a victory on the first stage of the Tour Down Under 2006 , in which he also won the overall standings. In 2006 he was also very strong in the Tour de Suisse when he left Michael Rasmussen behind him on a pass and then finished fourth in the stage. At the 15th stage of the Tour de France 2008 he prevailed in a four-man breakaway group, which drove around 180 kilometers at the top, in the final climb and won. In 2010 and 2011 he rode for the British Sky Professional Cycling Team .

Gerrans has been driving for Orica GreenEdge since 2012 . He made a particularly successful start to the 2012 season. After his victories at the Australian Road Championship and the Tour Down Under , he landed his greatest success at Milan-Sanremo , where he defeated Fabian Cancellara and Vincenzo Nibali in a sprint of a group of three and was the second Australian after Matthew Goss which Primavera could win. At the Tour de France 2013 he won the 3rd stage in the sprint of the smaller main field . Then he won the team time trial, which was the 4th stage . As a result, he took over the yellow jersey that he wore for two days.

In 2014 he became Australian road racing champion for the second time since 2012. This was followed by overall victory at the Tour Down Under , just like two years earlier . In 2014 he was the first Australian to win La Doyenne, his second cycling monument after Milan-Sanremo .

At the end of the year Gerrans won the Canadian UCI WorldTour races in Quebec and Montreal . In addition, he became vice world champion in Ponferrada / Spain at the UCI road world championships in road races . At the 2015 Giro , Gerrans was successful with the team in Sanremo . In 2016 he clinched his fourth overall victory in the Tour Down Under .

In 2018, Simon and his team BMC Racing won the team time trials of the Tour de Suisse and the Tour de France . At the end of the season he ended his cycling career.

Gerrans is one of the few racing drivers who managed to achieve a stage win in all three major tours and the first driver to win a Tour de France stage for an Australian team .