Philip Grant Anderson (born 20 March 1958) is a British-born Australian former professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to wear the

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of the Tour de France.

Origins

Phil Anderson was born in London but moved to Melbourne, Australia, when he was young. He grew up in the suburb of

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and graduated from Trinity Grammar School in 1975. He first raced with Hawthorn Cycling Club, where

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, another future professional, was also a member.Cycling Weekly, UK, 21 November 1992 Peiper said: "Phil went to a private school and joined the club with his mate, Peter Darbyshire. My best friend was Tom Sawyer, later a six-day racer in Europe, and we were the two rough nuts, while Phil and Darbs were the two upper-class boys".

Amateur career

Anderson won the 1977 Dulux Tour of the North Island in New Zealand and the Australian team time-trial championship at

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in 1978. In that year he also won the

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road race in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was 19. He moved to France in 1979 to join the ACBB, a club at

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in the suburbs of Paris with a reputation of placing riders in professional teams, particularly

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. Whilst he was with the ACBB he lived and raced alongside

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and Mark Bell. That season he won the Tour de l'Essonne, the Tour de l'Hérault and the amateur version of the unofficial world time-trial championship, the

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, in

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Professional career

Anderson turned professional in 1980, for Peugeot, one of the oldest French teams. He won two races in his first season - the Prix de Wetteren and a stage in the

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, and came second in two others. He moved to

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, Belgium, to ride

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s. :It was a big change; I'd never lived out of home before, so that was a big difference, and then there's the length of the races; you know all of a sudden you're riding 200 km a day instead of back here you'd be racing 80 or 100 km a day; huge fields, you turn up at a race and you'd have 200 riders, 250 riders. It's difficult because I was on a French team, and I felt that the French riders got priority, and I had to go a bit deeper or had to be a little better than some of my colleagues on the team. But that hardened me, and put pressure on me, and I think became part of my make-up in the end. He came fifth in the

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, in which he held the white jersey of best young rider, and again fifth in

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, the year he won the Tour de Suisse. That same season he finished second in the Super Prestige Pernod International, forerunner of the UCI points championship. His highlights were wearing the

of the

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and then again for nine days of

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. He was the first rider from outside Europe to lead the race. Anderson described what it meant in 1981: :It happened in the Pyrenees. This was my first Tour de France. I didn't have aspirations of becoming the wearer of the yellow jersey or anything like that. I was given my instructions and I was supposed to look after a rider on my team, the team leader, a Frenchman, and I forgot my instructions and just sort of went into survival mode over a number of mountain passes, just staying up with some of the top riders, and before I knew it, my team director came up beside me in his car and told me, 'Listen, what happened to your leader, the guy that you've been instructed to watch today?' you know. And to help if he has any troubles, or just pace him back if he's having some troubles. And I said, 'Oh gee, that's right. Where is he?' And he said, 'he's five or ten minutes back, in the next group.' I said, 'No worries I'll wait up for him.' He said, 'No, no, stay up here, you're doing OK, just stay out of trouble and try and hang on as long as possible.' :So hang on I did, and whistled down the next mountain and got to the last climb and I stayed up with

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; there was one rider, a Belgian rider, Lucien Van Impe rode away, an excellent climber, he rode away and so we came in a couple of minutes later, but I had enough time from some good days previously, that I climbed into the yellow jersey, and I had no idea of what the sort of yellow jersey represented, because I mean there's so much history to it, and for me it was just like, 'Oh yes, great, I don't have to wash my old jersey tonight, you know, get a new one'. But really, you're sort of at the highest level of the sport. His best year was 1985, when he won the

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, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Tour de Suisse, as well as finishing second in the

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and

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. He continued to ride the Tour until

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, when he came 38th, but by then he had

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. In 1990 he joined the American team, - "Speculation has it that he took a big pay cut; maybe that is what turned into motivation which resulted in his comeback to the big league," said Peiper - and he won the Tour Méditerranéen and the Tour of Sicily and stages of the Tour de Suisse and Tour de France. He also won the Tour of Britain in 1991 and 1993.

Retirement and honours

Anderson retired to a farm he bought in Jamieson and has what he calls the life of a gentleman farmer. He was given the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1987 for service to cycling. In 2000, he received the

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and in 2001 he received a Centenary Medal for service to society through

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. He was inducted into the

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in 2010. In 2015, he was an inaugural

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inductee.

Private life

Anderson has married twice, first to Anne, whom he married just after turning professional, and then Christi Valentine, who in 1999 wrote Anderson's biography, ''Phil Anderson: Cycling Legend''. Anderson and Valentine married on 29 April 1994 and separated in 2005.Feud over $3.5m estate
Herald Sun 13 December 2006. Anderson has been in a relationship with Anne Newell since 2006.

Career achievements

Major results

;1978 : 1st Gold medal blank

Road race,

;1980 : 3rd Overall

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;1981 : 1st Stage 6 Paris–Nice : 10th Overall Tour de France ::Held Jersey yellow

after Stage 6 ;1982 : 5th Overall Tour de France ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 2 ::Held Jersey yellow

after Stages 2–11 : 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ;1983 : 1st

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: 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 5a : 3rd Overall

: 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ::1st Prologue & Stage 3 : 7th Super Prestige Pernod International : 9th Overall Tour de France ;1984 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Stage 4b : 1st Züri–Metzgete : 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt : 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 3rd Super Prestige Pernod International : 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ::1st Stage 6 : 9th

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: 10th Overall Tour de France ;1985 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification ::1st Stages 3, 5b & 8 : 1st Jersey yellow-bluebar

Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ::1st Stage 1b : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour Mediterranean ::1st Stage 4b : 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt : 1st

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: 2nd Overall

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::1st Stages 2 & 3b : 2nd Overall

::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 2nd

: 2nd

: 2nd Super Prestige Pernod International : 4th Overall Paris–Nice ::1st Stage 4b ( TTT) : 5th Overall Tour de France : 5th

: 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1986 : 1st

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: 1st Stage 3b

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: 3rd Overall

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::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Giro di Lombardia ;1987 : 1st

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: 6th

: 7th Overall Giro d'Italia : 9th Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt : 10th

;1988 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Stage 3 :

::1st Stage 2 & 4 : 1st Stage 3

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: 2nd

;1989 : 1st Jersey green

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: 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1990 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Jersey blue

Intergiro classification ::1st Stage 4b : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Luxembourg : 2nd

: 4th Overall

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: 10th

;1991 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Kellogg's Tour ::1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour Mediterranean ::1st Stages 5 & 6 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Stage 6 : 1st Stage 10 Tour de France : 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 4

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: 2nd

: 7th

Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is ...

: 7th Züri–Metzgete : 10th

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;1992 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 4 :

::1st Stages 5, 8 & 9 : 1st

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: 3rd Overall

: 3rd

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: 6th

;1993 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Kellogg's Tour ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Stage 4 : 1st GP Impanis ;1994 : 1st Gold medal blank

Team time trial,

General classification results timeline

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Phil 1958 births Living people People educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew Cyclists from Melbourne Australian male cyclists Australian Tour de France stage winners Cyclists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Recipients of the Centenary Medal Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees Australian Giro d'Italia stage winners Danmark Rundt winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling

Origins

Amateur career

Professional career

Retirement and honours

Private life

Career achievements

Major results

General classification results timeline

See also

References

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