Wayne Hildred
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Full name | Wayne Hildred |
Date of birth | September 12, 1955 |
nation |
Australia New 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 |
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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
- Wayne Hildred in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Bordeaux - Paris, When Distance Was King. In: Cyclingtips. Retrieved May 11, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bright Velo Wayne Hildred. In: brightvelo.weebly.com. Retrieved May 11, 2015 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hildred, Wayne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New Plymouth , New Zealand |