Stuart O'Grady

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Stuart O'Grady at the 2013 Tour Down Under
O'Grady in the time trial on the 20th stage of the Tour de France 2005
Stuart O'Grady

Stuart Peter O'Grady (born August 6, 1973 in Adelaide ) is a retired Australian cyclist . In track cycling he was Olympic and world champion. On the road , he won the classic Paris – Roubaix and three stages of the Tour de France .

Career

O'Grady achieved his first international success as an amateur on the track . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he won the silver medal in the team pursuit with his teammates Brett Aitken , Stephen McGlede and Shaun O'Brien . At the UCI Track World Championships in 1993 , the Australians managed to get their revenge with O'Grady when they defeated the Olympic champion Germany's four-wheeler with a new world record in the world championship final. After these successes on the track, O'Grady became a professional road cyclist in 1995 with the French team Crédit Agricole .

In the Tour de France he started 17 times and finished the race 16 times. He achieved three individual stage wins and one victory in a team time trial. At the 2007 Tour de France , O'Grady fell badly on the descent from the Cormet de Roselend and suffered an injury to the lungs, several fractures of the ribs and vertebrae and a fracture of the shoulder blade.

In the one-day races he won the HEW Cyclassics in Hamburg in 2004 . His greatest success in 2007 was his victory at the classic Paris – Roubaix after a solo trip over 22 kilometers.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he returned to the origins of his career and won the gold medal in two-man team driving with Graeme Brown .

One day after the end of the Tour de France 2013 , O'Grady announced the end of his sporting career.

On July 24, 2013, he confessed to taking EPO before the 1998 Tour de France .

Successes (selection)

1992 :

1993 :

1996 :

1998 :

1999 :

2001 :

2003 :

  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian champion - road racing

2004 :

2007 :

2011
2012
2013

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - DNF - - DNF - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 109 54 94 DNF 54 77 90 61 77 91 DNF 109 124 149 78 97 161
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - DNF - 65 - - DNF DNF 93 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Stuart O'Grady  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. O'Grady seriously injured. In: radsport-news.com , July 15, 2007
  2. O'Grady triumphs in Roubaix. In: radsport-news.com , April 15, 2007
  3. ^ Stuart O'Grady Announces Retirement. In: greenedgecycling.com , accessed April 23, 2014
  4. ^ O'Grady admits EPO use ahead of 1998 Tour de France. In: cyclingnews.com , July 24, 2013