Stuart O'Grady

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

Stuart O'Grady at the 2004 Tour de France prologue in Liege

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 :

• Olympic Games team pursuit

1993 :

• World Championships team pursuit

1996 :

• Olympic Games team pursuit and points race

1998 :

• Prudential Tour
• two stages Tour de France

1999 :

• Overall ranking and two stages Tour Down Under
• Classic Haribo

2001 :

• Overall Tour Down Under

2003 :

• Australian champion - road racing

2004 :

• a stage Tour de France
• HEW Cyclassics
• Olympic Games - Madison

2007 :

• Paris – Roubaix

2011

• Team time trial Vuelta a España

2012

• Team time trial Tirreno – Adriatico

2013

• Tour de France team time trial

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	109	54	94	DNF	54	77	90	61	77	91	DNF	109	124	149	78	97	161
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	65	-	-	DNF	DNF	93	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 1996-1998: GAN
• 1998-2003: Crédit Agricole
• 2004–2005: Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone
• 2006–2010: Team Saxo Bank
• 2011 Leopard Trek
• 2012–2013 Orica GreenEdge

Web links

Commons : Stuart O'Grady  - Collection of Images

• Stuart O'Grady in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Stuart O'Grady in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Stuart O'Grady in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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