Bradley McGee

Bradley McGee

Personal information
Full name	Bradley John McGee
Born	(1976-02-24) 24 February 1976 Sydney
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Directeur sportif
Rider type	Time trialist
Professional team(s)
1999–2007	Française des Jeux
2008	Team CSC
Managerial team(s)
2009–2012	Saxo Bank–SunGard
Major wins
Tour de France 2 stages Giro d'Italia 1 stage
Medal record Representing  Australia Track cycling Olympic Games Athens 2004 Team pursuit Athens 2004 Individual pursuit Atlanta 1996 Individual pursuit Atlanta 1996 Team pursuit Sydney 2000 Individual pursuit UCI Track World Championships 1995 Bogota Team pursuit 2002 Copenhagen Individual pursuit Commonwealth Games 1994 Victoria, BC, Canada Individual pursuit 1994 Victoria, BC, Canada Team pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Individual pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team pursuit 2002 Manchester Individual pursuit
Infobox last updated on 19 November 2012

Bradley John McGee OAM (born 24 February 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS).^[1] He started cycling in 1986 at the age of ten. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France.

Career

His greatest success as a road cyclist has been winning the 2003 prologue of the Tour de France, and leading the race for three days in 2003. In 2004 he wore the leader's pink jersey of the Giro d'Italia for one day. In 2005 he wore the leader's golden jersey for four days in the Vuelta a España. He was the first Australian to lead the Tour of Spain, and the first to wear the leader's jersey of all three Grand Tours.

Brad McGee riding for Française des Jeux during the Stage 20 individual time trial of the 2005 Tour de France.

As a track cyclist and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder he met success in individual and team events. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record time of 3:58.233. He won a silver medal for the Olympic 4000m pursuit. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in his home town of Sydney, he set an Australian record of 4 minutes, and won a bronze medal for the pursuit. In Atlanta at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won two bronze medals, for the individual pursuit and the team pursuit.

At the 1994 Commonwealth Games he won gold medals in the individual and team pursuit. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games he defended his Commonwealth titles to win gold in both events. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games he won the individual pursuit.

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include:

• 1993 Australian Male Cyclist of the year
• 1994 NSW junior male cyclist of the year
• 1995 NSW cyclist of the year
• 2002 Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year

Bradley McGee is today a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation.^[2]

Major results

References

External links

• Bradley McGee at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's individual pursuit
1946: Gerard Peters 1947: Fausto Coppi 1948: Gerrit Schulte 1949: Fausto Coppi 1950–51: Antonio Bevilacqua 1952–53: Sid Patterson 1954–56: Guido Messina 1957–59: Roger Rivière 1960–61: Rudi Altig 1962: Henk Nijdam 1963: Leandro Faggin 1964: Ferdinand Bracke 1965–66: Leandro Faggin 1967: Tiemen Groen 1968: Hugh Porter 1969: Ferdinand Bracke 1970: Hugh Porter 1971: Dirk Baert 1972–73: Hugh Porter 1974–75: Roy Schuiten 1976: Francesco Moser 1977–78: Gregor Braun 1979: Bert Oosterbosch 1980: Tony Doyle 1981–82: Alain Bondue 1983: Steele Bishop 1984–85: Hans-Henrik Ørsted 1986: Tony Doyle 1987: Hans-Henrik Ørsted 1988: Lech Piasecki 1989: Colin Sturgess 1990: Viatcheslav Ekimov 1991: Francis Moreau 1992: Mike McCarthy 1993: Graeme Obree 1994: Chris Boardman 1995: Graeme Obree 1996: Chris Boardman 1997–98: Philippe Ermenault 1999: Robert Bartko 2000: Jens Lehmann 2001: Alexander Symonenko 2002: Bradley McGee 2003: Bradley Wiggins 2004: Sergi Escobar 2005–06: Robert Bartko 2007–08: Bradley Wiggins 2009–10: Taylor Phinney 2011: Jack Bobridge 2012–13: Michael Hepburn 2014: Alex Edmondson 2015: Stefan Küng 2016: Filippo Ganna

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team pursuit
1993: Australia (Brett Aitken, Stuart O'Grady, Billy Shearsby, Tim O'Shannessy) 1994: Germany (Guido Fulst, Andreas Bach, Jens Lehmann, Danilo Hondo) 1995: Australia (Bradley McGee, Stuart O'Grady, Rodney McGee, Tim O'Shannessy) 1996: Italy (Adler Capelli, Cristiano Citton, Andrea Collinelli, Mauro Trentini) 1997: Italy (Cristiano Citton, Mario Benetton, Adler Capelli, Andrea Collinelli) 1998: Ukraine (Alexander Symonenko, Sergiy Matveyev, Oleksandr Fedenko, Olexandr Klimenko) 1999: Germany (Robert Bartko, Jens Lehmann, Daniel Becke, Guido Fulst) 2000: Germany (Guido Fulst, Sebastian Siedler, Daniel Becke, Jens Lehmann) 2001: Ukraine (Alexander Symonenko, Sergeï Tscherniowsky, Lyubomyr Polatayko, Oleksandr Fedenko) 2002: Australia (Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Stephen Wooldridge, Luke Roberts) 2003: Australia (Graeme Brown, Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Luke Roberts) 2004: Australia (Ashley Hutchinson, Luke Roberts, Peter Dawson, Stephen Wooldridge) 2005: Great Britain (Steve Cummings, Rob Hayles, Paul Manning, Chris Newton) 2006: Australia (Peter Dawson, Matthew Goss, Mark Jamieson, Stephen Wooldridge) 2007: Great Britain (Geraint Thomas, Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins) 2008: Great Britain (Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins) 2009: Denmark (Casper Jørgensen, Jens-Erik Madsen, Michael Færk Christensen, Alex Rasmussen, Michael Mørkøv (qualifying round only)) 2010: Australia (Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn, Cameron Meyer) 2011: Australia (Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn, Luke Durbridge) 2012: Great Britain (Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke, Geraint Thomas, Andy Tennant (qualifying round only)) 2013: Australia (Glenn O'Shea, Alex Edmondson, Mitchell Mulhern, Alexander Morgan) 2014: Australia (Glenn O'Shea, Alex Edmondson, Luke Davison, Miles Scotson (qualifying round only)) 2015: New Zealand (Pieter Bulling, Dylan Kennett, Alex Frame, Marc Ryan) 2016: Australia (Sam Welsford, Michael Hepburn, Callum Scotson, Miles Scotson Alexander Porter, Luke Davison (qualifying round only))