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Australian National Road Race Championships
The Australian National Road Race Championships, are held annually with an event for each category of bicycle rider: Men, Women & under 23 riders. The event also includes the Australian National Time Trial Championships since 2002. The Australian Championships were officially known as the Scody Australian Open Road Cycling Championships from 1999 to 2010, taking the name of their main sponsor. This changed to the Mars Cycling Australia Road National Championships from 2011 but they are more commonly referred to as ''The Nationals''. The under 23 championships were introduced in 2001. Note that these results do not currently include the senior and junior amateur road race championships that were held prior to the open era. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic cycling jersey featuring green and yellow stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other road racing events in the country to show their status as national champion. The champion's stripes can be combined i ... [...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 road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Hildred
Wayne Hildred (born 12 September 1955) is a New Zealand former racing cyclist. He won the Australian national road race title in 1982 and 1986. Although he raced predominantly in Australia he rode as a New Zealander in all races he entered. After a break of 19 years Hildred raced the New Zealand masters Championships where he finished first. Then in 2016 he did the same in Australia winning their masters championship. Major results Sources: ;1980 : 4th Overall Herald Sun Tour ;1982 : 1st Road race, Australian National Road Championships : 1st Stage 7 Herald Sun Tour : 3rd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden : 9th GP Frans Melckenbeek ;1983 : 1st Stage 13 Herald Sun Tour ;1986 : 1st Road race, Australian National Road Championships ;1987 : 2nd Road race, Australian National Road Championships : 8th Overall Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Besanko
Peter Besanko (born 7 January 1955) is a former Australian racing cyclist. He won the Australian national road race title in 1976 and 1984. He was the first and fastest in the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic on three occasions, in 1984, 1989 and 1992. He won the Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually ... in 1976. References External links * 1955 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists from Melbourne {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Wilson (cyclist)
Donald Wilson (born 16 March 1944) is a former Australian racing cyclist. He won the Australian national road race title in 1975 and 1977. He also competed in the individual road race and the team time trial events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Wilson won and set the fastest time in the amateur Goulburn to Sydney Classic in 1967 run in reverse direction from Milperra to Goulburn Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters pate .... References External links * 1944 births Living people Australian male cyclists Sportspeople from Geelong Olympic cyclists of Australia Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham McVilly
Graham McVilly (4 May 1948 – 21 April 2002) was an Australian racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling s .... He won the Australian national road race title in 1970 and 1971. While still a novice, he won his first significant race at the Launceston Wheel Race in 1967. He won the Tasmanian Amateur Road Cycling Championship the next year, demonstrating the adaptability needed to become a great rider. Graham began his career in 1969. He finished second in the prestigious Sun Tour that year and won the Tasmanian Professional Road Championship. He won the Latrobe Wheel, became the Australian Road Cycling champion, and finished second in the Sun Tour once more in 1970. References External links * 1948 births 2002 deaths Australian male cyclists Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Hoole
Kerry Hoole (born 11 June 1940) is a former Australian racing cyclist. He won the Australian national road race title in 1966 and 1973. Hoole set the fastest time in the Goulburn to Sydney Classic 5 times, 1965–1968 and 1972 run in reverse direction from Milperra to Goulburn Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters pate .... References External links * 1940 births Living people Australian male cyclists People from Goulburn Cyclists from New South Wales {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Waddell
Barry Waddell (born 21 October 1936, Western Australia) is one of Australia's best-known cyclists of the 1960s (he was a professional rider from 1963 to 1970). Waddell won a record 5 straight Herald Sun Tours from 1964 to 1968. Although best known as a road cyclist, Waddell was in fact an "all-rounder", having also won a number of national track titles. He won the Australian national road race title in 1964 and 1968. He won the General Classification in the Herald Sun Tour five years in a row (1964-1968) when the Sun Tour was at its most gruelling, covering 1200 miles (1920 km) in nine days. Waddell took fastest-time honours in the Melbourne-to-Warrnambool road race no fewer than three times and won the Sir Hubert Opperman trophy twice, breaking Opperman's record from Adelaide to Melbourne (22 hours). Subsequently, after his professional cycling career had finished, he also won the 1975 world veterans' title in Austria. Waddell came to Melbourne in 1956, married in 1960 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Roche (cyclist)
Fred Roche was an Australian racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling s .... He won the Australian national road race title in 1959 and 1960. References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Possibly living people Australian male cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Smith (cyclist)
Eddie Smith (17 September 1926 – 4 July 1997) was an Australian racing cyclist. He won the Australian national road race title in 1954 and 1955. Smith finished second in 1956 behind Russell Mockridge. In 1954 he won the Goulburn to Sydney Classic, in reverse direction from Enfield to Goulburn In the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ... Smith set the fastest time in 1954 and the third fastest time in 1949. References External links * 1926 births 1997 deaths Australian male cyclists Sportspeople from Canberra Cyclists from the Australian Capital Territory {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alby Saunders
Alby Saunders (born 1924) was an Australian racing cyclist. Career highlights ;1947 :Fastest Tour of Gippsland ;1949 :1st Australian national road race title :Blue Riband for fastest in the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic :4th General Classification Tour of the West ;1950 :8th General Classification Tour of the West ;1951 :9th General Classification Tour of the West ;1952 :3rd Stage 1 'Sun' Tour of Victoria, Geelong :2nd Stage 2 'Sun' Tour of Victoria, Bendigo :3rd Stage 3 'Sun' Tour of Victoria Cobram :1st Stage 4 'Sun' Tour of Victoria, Melbourne :8th General Classification 'Sun' Tour of Victoria ;1953 :1st Australian national road race title :Blue Riband for fastest in the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic Australian professional cycling career He twice won the Australian national road race title in 1949, by winning a sprint point into the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic and in 1953 by winning the championship race over at Launceston, Tasmania. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Rowley (cyclist)
Keith Rowley (1919–1982) was an Australian racing cyclist. Career highlights ;1947 :1st Australian national road race title :1st and Blue Riband in the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic ;1948 :2nd and 2nd fastest Tour of Gippsland ;1949 :2nd Australian long distance title of 187 miles ;1950 :1st Australian national road race title :2nd in Stage 1 part b Tour of the West, Dubbo :1st in Stage 5 part a Tour of the West, Penrith :2nd in Stage 5 part b Tour of the West, Sydney :3rd in General Classification Tour of the West ;1951 :8th in General Classification Tour of the West ;1952 :1st in General Classification Herald Sun Tour :3rd in Stage 5 'Sun' Tour of Victoria Maffra, Victoria :1st in General Classification 'Sun' Tour of Victoria Australian professional cycling career He twice won the Australian national road race title in 1947, by winning a sprint point into the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
