Wayne Hildred

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Wayne Hildred Road cycling
To person
Full name Wayne Hildred
Date of birth September 12, 1955
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand 
discipline Road cycling
To the team
Current team End of career
function driver
Team (s)
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985–1987
Ti-Raleigh-McGregor
Farleigh
Boule d'Or
Clemenso-Mavic
Action Cycles
Action-Galli-Malvern Star
Rare Spares
Most important successes

Australian Road Cycling Championships

1982, 1986 - road racingAustraliaAustralia
Last updated: May 11, 2015

Wayne Hildred (born September 12, 1955 in New Plymouth , New Zealand ) is a retired New Zealand - Australian cyclist .

Wayne Hildred was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia at the age of 23. There he came into contact with cycling on track and road in Victoria . After winning several races in Australia, including in 1981 with Paul Medhurst the Six Days of Launceston , he was awarded a contract in the summer of that year the Belgian team Boule d'Or where, among others, the road world champion Freddy Maertens drove.

In 1982 and 1986 Hildred became Australian road racing champion, and in 1983 he won The Examiner Tour of the North , a forerunner of the Tasmania Tour . In 1987 he was again Australian runner-up, then he ended his active cycling career.

Wayne Hildred then worked in Woodonga for Mars . In 2005, almost 20 years after he had stopped riding a bike, he lost twelve kilograms and began racing again in the Masters class. At the 2006 New Zealand Masters Games in Dunedin , he won two gold and one silver medal. In 2011, he and his second wife opened Café Velo in Bright , organizing trips and camps.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bright Velo Wayne Hildred. In: brightvelo.weebly.com. Retrieved May 11, 2015 .