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Cycling At The 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's Individual Road Race
The men's individual road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, was held on Wednesday, 27 September 2000 (the second day of competition of the games) with a race distance of 239.4 km. The estimated global TV audience was 600 million. They were specifically held in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. There were 154 cyclists from 41 nations competing. The maximum number of cyclists per nation had been five since professionals were allowed in 1996. The event was won by Jan Ullrich of Germany, the nation's first victory in the men's individual road race (though Olaf Ludwig of East Germany had won in 1988). His teammate Andreas Klöden's bronze made this race the first time one nation had taken two medals in the event since 1988—when West Germany had done so by taking silver and bronze (making an all-German podium then, with Ludwig's gold). Alexander Vinokourov took silver for Kazakhstan's first medal in the event. Background This was the 16th appearance of the event, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centennial Parklands
Centennial Parklands is the name given to a group of three urban parklands located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Comprising approximately , the lands encompass Centennial Park, Moore Park and Queen's Park. The Parklands are listed on the New South Wales Heritage Register, with various components of national, state or local heritage significance. The parks are contained within the local government areas of City of Randwick, Waverley Municipal Council, and City of Sydney. The parklands are managed by the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust, trading as the Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands. The Trust is administered by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. The Parklands were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 27 March 2000. Centennial park is home to a number of wild animals including a bird life, rabbits, and foxes. It is also home to a number of equestrian s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Wadecki
Piotr Wadecki (born 11 February 1973) is a Polish former professional road racing cyclist, who last worked as the general manager of UCI WorldTeam . Team membership A professional from 1997, Wadecki has been a member of the following professional teams: Mróz(-Supradyn Witamin) (1997–2000), Domo-Farm Frites/Lotto Domo (now Predictor-Lotto) (2001–2002), Quick Step-Davitamon (2003), Lotto-Domo (2004), Intel-Action (2005), and CCC Polsat (2006). Biography In 2000, Wadecki won 15 victories in races counted under the Union Cycliste Internationale's points scheme . On 15 March 2002, Wadecki was seriously injured in a final sprint in stage 1 ( Massa Lubrense-Sorrento, 124 km) of the 37th Tirreno–Adriatico. He suffered skull fractures and a broken wrist. When transferring from Lotto-Domo to Intel-Action, in 2005, Wadecki was ranked second place in the world. He had achieved a total of 32 wins thus far. While in the Intel-Action Team, Wadecki competed in both the Giro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Zberg
Markus Zberg (born June 27, 1974 in Altdorf, Uri) is a retired Swiss professional road bicycle racer; he is the younger brother of Beat Zberg. Zberg retired after a severe fall in the Tour de l'Ain. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000 and 2008. Major results ;1996 : 1st Stage 5 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ;1997 : 1st Stage 7 Tour de Pologne ;1998 : Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 1 & 22 : 1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau : 1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 6 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda ;1999 : 1st Milano–Torino : 2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 2nd Overall Paris–Nice : 2nd GP Ouest–France ;2000 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Amstel Gold Race ;2001 : 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm : 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico : 4th Amstel Gold Race ;2002 : 3rd Milan–San Remo ;2003 : 3rd Tre Valli Varesine ;2004 : 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton ;2005 : 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm Rund is a surname. Notable people with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Spruch
Zbigniew Spruch (born 13 December 1965 in Kożuchów) is a Polish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the Tour de Pologne in 1995 and placed second at the 2000 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;1988 :1st Stage 3 Peace Race ;1989 :Tour de Pologne ::1st Stages 3 & 5 :1st Stage 2 Peace Race ;1991 :Tour de Pologne ::1st Stages 2, 3 & 4 ;1992 :6th Trofeo Laigueglia ;1993 :5th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde ;1994 :2nd Trofeo Pantalica :3rd Paris-Tours :6th Gent-Wevelgem ;1995 :1st Overall Tour of Poland ::1st Stage 2 :4th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque :5th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre ::1st Stage 1 :6th Gent-Wevelgem ;1996 :9th Road race, Olympic Games ;1997 :2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges ;1998 :1st Stage 1 Tour de Pologne :1st Stage 5 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda :5th Overall Tirreno-Adriatico ;1999 :2nd Gent–Wevelgem :3rd Milan-San Remo :5th Tour of Flanders :9th Scheldeprijs ;2000 :2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships : ... [...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] |
Jaan Kirsipuu
Jaan Kirsipuu (born 17 July 1969 in Tartu) is an Estonian former road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . He spent the majority of his career riding under the management of Vincent Lavenu, initially joining Lavenu's team as a ''stagiaire'' and staying with the squad in its various incarnations for 12 years, taking a total of 124 race wins for the team. Kirsipuu initially retired at the end of the 2006, but participated in the 2007 Estonian championship, becoming time trial champion for the sixth time. In 2008 he was the manager of Latvian UCI Continental cycling team . In 2009 he joined . During his career, Kirsipuu got 115 professional wins and another 62 wins from criteriums and other non-professional races. He retired again in 2012, and became a sporting director with the team. At his peak he was one of Estonia's top athletes and the first Estonian rider to win a stage in the Tour de France. He dropped out of the Tour de Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Freire
Óscar Freire Gómez (born 15 February 1976) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx and Peter Sagan. In the later years of his career, he became more of a classics rider. He has won the cycling monument Milan–San Remo three times, four stages in the Tour de France and seven stages of the Vuelta a España, throughout a successful career. Despite his diminutive stature, Freire was a good sprinter. He had a training philosophy where he rode shorter distances than most pro cyclists, sometimes covering only about half the distance his colleagues would. When growing up he contracted tuberculosis and narrowly avoided having a leg amputated.Fotheringham, A. (2014). The Exile. In: E. Bacon and L. Birnie, ed., ''The Cycling Anthology: Volume One''. London: Yellow Jersey Press, pp.208-230. Career Vitalicio Seg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gord Fraser (cyclist)
Gordon "Gord" Fraser (born November 19, 1968) is a Canadian former professional road racing cyclist. As a rider he specialised in sprinting. Fraser is a three-time Olympian and four-time Commonwealth Games participant and has over 200 career wins including becoming the 2004 Canadian national road race champion. He also rode in the 1997 Tour de France and won the US National Race Calendar series twice. He retired from professional cycling at the end of the 2006 season after racing four seasons for the Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis. He went on to be a directeur sportif with Team Type 1 in 2009, and in 2010 joined UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis as a directeur sportif. In 2011 became DS for the US Continental team, Realcyclist.com. Whilst there he guided Francisco Mancebo to the top of the National Race Calendar individual standings in 2011 and again in 2012 (under the team's new name of Competitive Cyclist Racing Team). However he left the team when it merged with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Van Heeswijk
Max Lambert Peter van Heeswijk (born 2 March 1973 in Hoensbroek, Limburg) is a Dutch retired professional road racing cyclist. He finished 15th road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 17th in the road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Career achievements Major results ;1992 : 1st Omloop Alblasserwaard ;1993 : 2nd Overall Sachsen-Tour : 2nd Ronde van Limburg ;1994 : 1st Stages 2, 12, 13 & 15 Commonwealth Bank Classic : 1st Stage 1 Teleflex Tour : 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 ;1995 : 1st Hel van het Mergelland : 1st Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Galicia : 1st Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg : 1st Stage 3 Niederösterreich Rundfahrt : 9th Paris–Brussels ;1996 : 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Netherlands : 1st Stage 4 Tour of Galicia : 3rd Overall Tour of Sweden ;1997 : 1st Stage 22 Vuelta a España : 2nd Clásica de AlmerÃa : 9th GP Rik Van Steenbergen ;1998 : 1st Profronde van Heerlen : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Austria : 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucia : 3rd Trofeo Luis Puig : 4th Omloop Het Vol ... [...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] |
Axel Merckx
Axel Eddy Lucien Jonkheer Merckx (born 8 August 1972) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer and the son of five-time Tour de France champion Eddy Merckx. He is team director of UCI Continental team . In his professional career (1993–2007), he won the Belgian national road race championship in 2000 and a bronze medal in the road race at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens. Cycling career Born in Uccle, Axel Merckx became a professional cyclist in 1993, winning the Belgian national road race championship in 2000. He vowed to make his mark by accomplishing feats that had eluded his father, such as winning a Tour de France stage at Alpe d'Huez and the Paris–Tours classic. He did not succeed, but competed in eight Tours de France and finished as the highest-placed Belgian rider six times. His personal best was cracking the top 10 during the 1998 edition. Merckx won the bronze medal in the road race at the 2004 Games in Athens, breaking free in the final kilomet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danilo Di Luca
Danilo Di Luca (born 2 January 1976) is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist, best known for winning the 2007 Giro d'Italia, but also for several positive doping tests, the last of which resulting in a lifetime ban from the sport. Di Luca is also one of six riders to have won each of the three Ardennes classics; he won the Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne in 2005, and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2007. During his career, Di Luca rode for the Riso Scotti, , , , , , and squads. Di Luca's career was also dogged by numerous infractions, involving three suspensions in relation to doping. In 2007, Di Luca was suspended for three months towards the end of the season, for visiting previously banned doctor Carlo Santuccione, which later escalated into the Oil for Drugs case. In 2009, at the Giro d'Italia, Di Luca tested positive on two occasions for CERA, and was given a backdated – to July 2009 – two-year ban in February 2010, which was later red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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