Julian Dean (born 28 January 1975) is a former professional

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from New Zealand who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. He last rode for

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team , where he now works as an assistant sporting director and mentor. His main achievements include winning the 2007 and 2008 New Zealand National Road Race Championships, finishing 9th in the 2005

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in Madrid, and 10th place in the 2002

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. At the peak of his career he was considered the best lead out rider in the world, and was highly regarded by his teammate and friend

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Early life

Born in

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, New Zealand, Dean is the son of Waimata dairy farmers Peter and Valerie Dean. Locally known as the "Grasshopper", started cycling when he was just a child, beginning at the local BMX club in, where he had success with two 3rd-place finishes in the New Zealand Championships. Dean tried his hand at many sports before moving onto

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, which he enjoyed. From triathlon, Dean fell in love with cycling, where he represented New Zealand in road and

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disciplines. In 1997, Dean got his chance to race in the US with the Shaklee team and the Mercury cycling team in 1998.

Career

US Postal

In 1999, Dean signed to the now-defunct US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team, whom he rode for until 2001, gaining experience from racing in Europe. He managed his first European victories with 2 stage wins in the tour of Britain. After having ridden in a team based around

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Dean went looking for new opportunities. He got them by joining in 2002. However, his joy was short-lived when Dean broke his leg in March 2002 and was out for three months. He took a stage win in the short stage race

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taking the leaders jersey & holding on to win the overall race beating some of the world's best riders to the victory including a great tussle with Italy's star rider Michele Bartoli.

Credit Agricole

In 2004 he signed to as a lead-out man for sprinter

. He finished 8th behind stage winner

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in Stage 6 of the

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. He missed the 2005 edition of the Tour due to an injury incurred in the 2005 Giro d'Italia. He later returned for the 2006 edition. The 2007 cycling season started well with Dean winning the New Zealand Road Racing Champion title. This win entitled Dean to represent and wear the black and white New Zealand national cycling jersey whilst racing in all international road-racing events throughout the 2007 season. He continued to ride for the French-based team Crédit Agricole. During the 2007

, Dean was known for his role of lead-out for

. Hushovd later said in interviews that Dean was "the best lead-out man in the world." Dean's last public appearance wearing the Crédit Agricole jersey was the 2007

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criterium race, held on 27 December 2007. He won the elite category.

Slipstream-Chipotle

From 2008 to 2011, Dean rode for

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' team . He once again started the year by winning the New Zealand national Road Racing Championship, held in January. He recorded six top-ten finishes in the

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, with a best performance of fourth in stage 14. His overall classification was 110th, and 9th in the points competition. In 2009, during the 13th stage of the

from

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he, along with

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of got shot by an air rifle. He got shot in the thumb but was able to continue with a largely swollen hand where he eventually finished 112th on the stage. In completing the Tour de France, Dean became the only rider to start and finish all three grand tours during the 2009 season. During the finish of stage 11 from Sisteron to Bourg les Valence in the

Dean was involved in a highly publicised incident with

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, who repeatedly headbutted Julian Dean, who he believed had come across into his lead out. Subsequently, Renshaw was disqualified from the Tour de France.

GreenEDGE

In October 2011 Dean confirmed his move to the new Australian professional cycling team, . Dean believed "It sa hugely exciting development for cycling, especially in Australia and New Zealand" and that "With the quality of the team named,

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confident we'll get World Tour status straight away"Julian Dean joins Australian cycling team, GreenEDGE
/ref> which was subsequently achieved. Australian riders already signed to GreenEDGE include 2011 Milan – San Remo winner,

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, Australian National Road Race Champion,

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, Australian National Time Trial Champion and

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winner, Cameron Meyer, four time

runner up,

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and three-time winner of the

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. Julian had a training injury at the first camp. In December 2012 Dean confirmed his retirement from racing, his final race will be the New Zealand National Road Race Championships on 13 January. He will continue to work with GreenEdge Cycling as an assistant sporting director and mentor.

Grand Tour results

Tour de France

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: 127th *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

: 127th *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: 107th *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: 110th *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

: 121st *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

: 157th *

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

: 145th

Giro d'Italia

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

: Abandoned, Stage 6 *

: 93rd *

: Did not start, Stage 19 *

: 136th *

: Did not start, Stage 19

Vuelta a España

: Abandoned, Stage 15 *

: 132nd *

: Did not start, Stage 13

Personal life

Dean is married with two children. During his time in New Zealand, Dean, is based in

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, New Zealand where he hopes to eventually be based permanently. In 2010 Dean competed in the Singlespeed Mountain Biking World Championships.

Palmares

;1993 : 3rd bronze medal blank

World U19 Team Pursuit Championship ;1994 : 3rd bronze medal blank

Team Pursuit, Victoria, Commonwealth Games ;1995 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Kilometer Champion : Best All-Around Performance, New Zealand Track Championship ;1996 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Individual Pursuit champion : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Points Race Champion : 1st Tour of Somerville : 1st stage Tour of Ohio : 1st Red Rose Rocket Criterium : 1st stage,

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;1997 : 1st Visalia Criterium : 1st Santa Rosa Criterium ;1998 : 1st Outdoor Life Network GP : 1st Overall, US National Point Series : 1st Visalia Criterium : 1st stage, Tour LeFleur : 1st sprint competition Redlands Classic ;1999 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 11 :

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::1st Stages 2 & 7 ;2000 :10th First Union USPRO Championships ;2001 : 1st First Union Classic : 1st Stage 4

Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, Vuelta a Castilla y León has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bi ...

;2002 :10th World Road Race Championships :10th

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;2003 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stages 4 & 5 : 1st

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: 1st Stage 2

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;2004 :2nd Overall

:::1st

Points classification ;2005 : 9th Road Race World Championships ;2007 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

National Road Race Championships : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

National Criterium Championships ;2008 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

National Road Race Championships : 1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia :3rd Overall

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;2010 : 3rd National Road Race Championships ;2011 : 1st Stage 2 TTT

;2013 : 3rd National Road Race Championships

References

External links

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Cyclingnews.com 2007 NZ Road Championships
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dean, Julian 1975 births Living people New Zealand male cyclists Olympic cyclists of New Zealand Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Waihi Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling 20th-century New Zealand people 21st-century New Zealand people Sportspeople from Waikato