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2000 Tour Down Under ...
The 2000 Tour Down Under was the second edition of the Tour Down Under stage race. It took place from 18 to 23 January in and around Adelaide, South Australia. The race was won by Gilles Maignan, who rode for . Participating teams : Linda McCartney Racing Team : UniSA–Australia : : : United Water–AIS : : : : : Sun-Smart–Mitsubishi : : : Route and stages Final classification References {{Tour Down Under Tour Down Under Tour Down Under, 2000 Tour Down Under, 2000 2000 in Oceanian sport Tour Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Maignan
Gilles Maignan (born July 30, 1968 in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise) is a French former professional road racing cyclist. Major results ;1992 :3rd Overall Tour du Loir et Cher E Provost :3rd Overall Ronde de l'Isard ;1994 :2nd Paris-Troyes ;1995 :9th Trophée des Grimpeurs ;1997 :2nd Tour de Vendée :9th Grand Prix des Nations :10th Overall Tour du Limousin ;1998 :1st Time trial, National Road Championships :2nd Grand Prix des Nations :2nd Chrono des Herbiers :9th Overall Tour du Limousin ::1st Stage 2 ;1999 :1st Time trial, National Road Championships :1st Stage 5 GP du Midi-Libre :2nd Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe :2nd Chrono des Herbiers :5th Grand Prix des Nations :7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships :10th Overall Circuit des Mines ::1st Stage 3 ;2000 :1st Overall Tour Down Under :1st Stage 4 Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne :2nd Overall Circuit des Mines :7th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe ;2001 :1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Grand Prix du Morbih ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenelg, South Australia
Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Located on the shore of Holdfast Bay in Gulf St Vincent, it has become a tourist destination due to its beach and many attractions, home to several hotels and dozens of restaurants. Established in 1836, it is the oldest European settlement on mainland South Australia. It was named after Lord Glenelg, a member of British Cabinet and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Through Lord Glenelg the name derives from Glenelg, Highland, Scotland. History Prior to the 1836 British colonisation of South Australia, Glenelg and the rest of the Adelaide Plains was home to the Kaurna group of Aboriginal Australians. They knew the area as "Pattawilya" and the local river as "Pattawilyangga", now named the Patawalonga River. Evidence has shown that at least two smallpox epidemics had killed the majority of the Kaurna population prior to 1836. The disease appeared to have come down the Murray River from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Magnien
Emmanuel Magnien (born 7 May 1971) is a French former cyclist, who was professional from 1993 to 2003. Before he turned professional, he took part in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Some of his notable victories are the Tour de l'Avenir (1995), Tour Méditerranéen (1997), Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise (2000), and Paris–Brussels (2001). Major results Road ;1993 : 1st Overall Tour de l'Ain ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir : 1st Stage 3 Tour du Vaucluse : 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk : 7th Overall Tour de l'Oise : 9th Giro dell'Emilia : 9th Trophée des Grimpeurs ;1994 : 1st Stages 2 & 4 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 1st Overall Tour d'Armorique : 1st Stages 1 & 2 : 1st Stage 11 (ITT) Tour de l'Avenir : 3rd Overall Tour de l'Oise ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm : 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ::1st Stage 6 ;1995 : 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Prologue & Stages 2, 9 & 11 : 1st Duo Normand (with Stéphane Pétilleau) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Stephens (cyclist)
Matthew Stephens (born 4 January 1970) is a British former professional road racing cyclist, who rode as a professional between 1998 and 2011. Biography As a junior rider, Stephens won the Junior Tour of Wales in both 1987 and 1988, one of only two riders to win the race twice. He represented Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, finishing 61st in the road race. Stephens finished 8th in the Amateur World Road Race Championships in 1995, forming part of a break on the second lap of the race alongside eventual winner Danny Nelissen and earning Team GB their squad for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 (automatic qualification for the Games was restricted to nations with finishers in the top 15 of the 1995 World Championships). However, he was not selected for the Olympic Road Race team that year. He became the British National Road Race Champion in 1998. After this he turned professional with the British-based Harrods team in 1998, before riding for the Linda McCartn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Vinokourov
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokourov ( Kazakh and russian: Александр Николаевич Винокуров; born 16 September 1973) is a Kazakhstani former professional road bicycle racer and the current general manager of UCI WorldTeam . He is of Russian origin. As a competitor, his achievements include two bronze medals at the World Championships, four stage wins in the Tour de France, four in the Vuelta a España plus the overall title in 2006, two Liège–Bastogne–Liège monuments, one Amstel Gold Race, and the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics Men's Road Race. Vinokourov is a past national champion of Kazakhstan, and a dual-medalist at the Summer Olympics. In 2007, he received a two-year ban from cycling for blood doping. In 2019, he was accused of race fixing by prosecutors in Liège but was later cleared of the charges. Vinokourov began cycling in 1984 as an 11-year-old, competing within the former Soviet Union. He moved to France in 1997 to finish his am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Rault
Dominique Rault (born 2 June 1971) is a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1999 Tour de France The 1999 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 86th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-D .... References External links * 1971 births Living people French male cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) {{France-cycling-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovic Turpin
Ludovic Turpin (born 22 March 1975 in Laval) is a French professional road racing cyclist, who most recently competed for amateur team Vélo Club Grand Case. Turpin was involved in a fist fight after a crash in stage six of the 2015 Tour de Guadeloupe. Major results ;2000 : 4th Overall Tour Down Under : 5th Coppa Sabatini : 6th Trofeo Laigueglia ;2001 : 3rd Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca ;2002 : 2nd Paris–Camembert : 3rd Overall Tour de l'Ain : 4th Overall Tour du Limousin : 7th Coppa Placci ;2003 : 1st Stage 2 Route du Sud : 4th Overall Tour de l'Ain ::1st Stage 3 : 7th Giro della Romagna ;2004 : 9th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe ::1st Stage 2 ;2005 : 1st Grand Prix de Rennes : 2nd Overall French Road Cycling Cup : 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain : 2nd Polynormande : 4th Route Adélie : 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ;2006 : 1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges : 8th Paris–Camembert ;2007 : 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain : 5th Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie McEwen
Robbie McEwen (born 24 June 1972) is an Australian former professional road cyclist. McEwen is a three-time winner of the Tour de France points classification and, at the peak of his career, was considered the world's fastest sprinter. He last rode for on the UCI World Tour. A former Australian BMX champion, McEwen switched to road cycling in 1990 at 18 years of age. He raced as a professional from 1996 until 2012. McEwen retired from the World Tour after riding the 2012 Tour of California and is now a cycling broadcast commentator on the Tour Down Under and the Tour de France. Career McEwen was born in Brisbane. After four years of moving through the regional, state and national levels of cycling, he started at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra under road cycling coach Heiko Salzwedel. The first signs of his sprinting prowess on the international stage were at the Peace Race, winning three stages for the Australian national team. McEwen competed in the roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Zabel
Erik Zabel (; born 7 July 1970) is a German former professional road bicycle racer who raced most of his career with Telekom. With 152 professional wins and 211 wins in his career, he is considered by some to be one of the greatest German cyclists and cycling sprinters of all-time. Zabel won a record nine points classifications in grands tours including the points classification in the Tour de France six consecutive years between 1996 and 2001 and the points classification in the Vuelta a España in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Zabel won the Milan–San Remo four times and numerous six-day track events. He was one of the few road cyclists of recent times who raced all year, including track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ... in winter. For season 2012 he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanunda, South Australia
Tanunda is a town situated in the Barossa Valley region of South Australia, 70 kilometres north-east of the state capital, Adelaide. The town derives its name from an Aboriginal word meaning ''water hole''. The town's population is approximately 4600. The postcode is 5352 Settlement Prussian immigrants who arrived with Pastor Gotthard Fritzsche founded the village of Bethanien in 1842, the first settlement in the vicinity of today's Tanunda. One year later, Prussians relocating from Klemzig on the Torrens River, where they had settled upon immigrating in 1838 with Pastor August Kavel, came to the Barossa Valley and founded the village of Langmeil. Their new community bore the name of a Prussian town near Zullichau, from where the settlers had originated; it is now a Polish village known as Okunin. Sometime later, another village was founded and named Tanunda. Due to anti-German sentiments, both Langmeil and Bethanien were renamed during the Great War to Bilyara and Bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawler
Gawler is the oldest country town on the Australian mainland in the state of South Australia. It was named after the second Governor (British Vice-Regal representative) of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler. It is about north of the centre of the state capital, Adelaide, and is close to the major wine producing district of the Barossa Valley. Topographically, Gawler lies at the confluence of two tributaries of the Gawler River, the North and South Para rivers, where they emerge from a range of low hills. Historically a semi-rural area, Gawler has been swept up in Adelaide's growth in recent years, and is now considered by some as an outer northern suburb of Adelaide. It is counted as a suburb in the Outer Metro region of the Greater Adelaide Planning Region. History A British colony, South Australia was established as a commercial venture by the South Australia Company through the sale of land to free settlers at £1 per acre (£2/9/5d or £2.47 per hectare). Gaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modbury, South Australia
Modbury is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Tea Tree Gully. Modbury is located at the end of the Adelaide O-Bahn and is home to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping complex and a Hospital. It was named Modbury by R. S. Kelly, on 1 September 1840, after his native town in Devonshire. Schools The suburb of Modbury contains one high school ( Modbury High School) and one Primary School (Modbury West). However, there are many other schools in the surrounding areas which also bear the name Modbury. Modbury South Primary for example is located in the suburb of Hope Valley. There is also another primary school named Modbury School which was originally in Modbury proper but relocated in the 1970s to what is now known as Modbury North. Government The suburb of Modbury is located within the Australian House of Representatives Seat of Makin, and the South Australian House of Assembly Seat of Florey. Its local government area is the City of Tea Tree Gully and its chambers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
