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

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. A former Australian

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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

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and is now a cycling broadcast commentator on the

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and the

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

Career

Robbie McEwen 2006 Bay Cycling Classic 1

McEwen was born in

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. After four years of moving through the regional, state and national levels of cycling, he started at the

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in Canberra under road cycling coach

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. The first signs of his sprinting prowess on the international stage were at the

Peace Race The Peace Race (german: Friedensfahrt, cs, Závod míru, sk, Preteky mieru, russian: Велогонка Мира (), pl, Wyścig Pokoju , french: Course de la Paix, it, Corsa della Pace, ro, Cursa Păcii) was an annual multiple stage bicycl ...

, winning three stages for the Australian national team. McEwen competed in the road race at the

1996 Atlanta Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta ...

(23rd) and the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games (19th). He was also included on the Australian team for the 1994 UCI Road Cycling World Championship in Italy, and the 2002 UCI Road Cycling World Championship in Belgium, where he won a silver medal. McEwen was again selected for Australia at the

2004 Athens Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

(11th) as part of the road race team. McEwen was named 2002 Australian Cyclist of the Year, 2002 Male Road Cyclist of the Year and 1999 Male Road Cyclist of the Year. After spending 16 seasons racing for foreign teams (Dutch: Rabobank & Farm Frites; Belgian: Lotto; Russian: Katusha; USA: RadioShack), McEwen signed for the new Australian team in September 2011 after it gained a ProTeam licence for the 2012 season.

Tour de France

McEwen participated in the

on 12 occasions: 1997 (117th), 1998 (89th), 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. Over the years, he has won 12 stages. In 1999, McEwen won the final stage sprint in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

on the Champs-Elysées. In 2002, McEwen won stage 3 (Metz–Reims) and stage 20 (Melun–Paris). In 2004, McEwen won stages 3 and 9. In 2005, McEwen won stage 5 to Montargis, stage 7 to Karlsruhe in Germany, and stage 13 to Montpellier. In 2006, McEwen won stages 2, 4 and 6 to Esch-sur-Alzette, St Quentin and Vitré respectively. He started the 2007 Tour with a victorious sprint on stage 1 to Canterbury. The stage win was seen as remarkable as he had crashed with to go. He injured his knee and wrist but with the help of his team he clawed his way back to the bunch to win the sprint by over a bike length. The injuries he sustained from this crash did not prevent him from continuing but eventually he was forced out of the race when the Tour entered the Mountains, his knee injury became worse and he failed to finish stage eight within the time limit. In 2002, McEwen became the first Australian to win the Tour de France points classification. By 2006, McEwen had won the Tour de France green points jersey three times in this race – in 2002, 2004 and, again, in 2006 – defeating rivals such as fellow Australians

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and Stuart O'Grady, and international competitors like Erik Zabel of Germany,

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of Belgium and Thor Hushovd of Norway. McEwen's first win in the 2002 Tour de France saw him win the green jersey from German legend Erik Zabel, with O’Grady third and Cooke fourth. In

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, McEwen won the points classification for a second time, defeating Hushovd and Erik Zabel. McEwen had fractured two transverse process (vertebrae) in a mass pile up on stage 6 and continued the race in extreme pain, making his stage 9 win in Gueret all the more remarkable. McEwen won his third and final Points classification in the

2006 Tour de France The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between the 1st and the 23rd of July. It was won by Óscar Pereiro following the disqualification of Floyd Landis. Due to the United ...

, this time with Zabel second and Hushovd third. In 2012, he announced that the Tour of California would be the last professional race of his career. He struggled to reach the finishing line of the mountain stages in the gruppetto. He humorously said after his arrival on the final stage in Los Angeles: "This was a good race to pick as my last because I suffered so much this week I won't miss it." He was awarded the "Most Courageous Rider" jersey at the end of the race to commemorate his last day of professional cycling. After retiring from racing, McEwen remained with Orica-GreenEDGE as a technical adviser and sprint coach.

Commentating

In 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, Robbie McEwen commentated on the Tour de France's world feed in English, alongside fellow Australian Matthew Keenan. In 2021 he featured on SBS Australia's coverage of a number of cycling races, but his contract was not renewed for 2022. He commentated on the Santos Festival of Cycling for the 7 Network Australia, and joined GCN (Global Cycling Network) in March 2022.

Sprinting style

McEwen was known as a particularly cunning and tactical sprinter. Where many teams would use ' Lead-Out Trains' to secure a stage win for their selected sprinter, McEwen achieved many of his victories either with one lead-out man, or often none at all, by aggressively and intelligently positioning himself within the peloton in the final kilometres. Fellow Australian cyclist Stuart O'Grady considers McEwen to be "one of the fastest, most powerful accelerators the planet has ever seen".

Personal life

McEwen lives in Australia with his Belgian wife, Angélique Pattyn, his son, Ewan, and his daughters, Elena and Claudia. In 2011, McEwen published an autobiography entitled 'One Way Road'. McEwen lived for many years in the Belgian town of Everbeek and is fluent in Dutch. McEwen has two brothers, the eldest is Ross and is getting into Triathlon, the youngest, Cam, is a Scrum Master at Telstra and a car enthusiast.

Major results

;1994 :

::1st Stages 3, 6b & 9 : 1st Stage 1

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ...

;1995 : 1st Stage 4

Regio-Tour The Regio-Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held between France, Switzerland and Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Famous riders like Laurent Brochard, Jan Ullric ...

: 1st Stage 6

;1996 : 1st Luk-Cup Bühl : 1st Stage 4

Vuelta a Murcia The Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia ( en, Tour of Murcia) is a road bicycle race held in and around Murcia, Spain. The first four editions were reserved to amateurs. Originally the race was held in early March and consisted of five stages. However, d ...

: 1st Stage 2 Rheinland–Pfalz Rundfahrt : 1st Stage 3b

: 1st Stage 4

: 4th 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 Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually ...

::1st Stages 1b, 8b & 10b ;1997 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Geelong Bay Classic Series ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 :

Ronde van Nederland The Tour of the Netherlands ''(Dutch: Ronde van Nederland)'' was a road bicycle racing stage-race in the Netherlands, founded in 1948. It's an annual race since 1975. Because of the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was replaced by the Eneco ...

::1st Stages 2 & 3a : 1st Stage 2

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been ...

: 1st Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg : 4th Trofeo Alcúdia : 5th

GP Stad Zottegem Egmont Cycling Race is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Zottegem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competit ...

: 10th Overall Danmark Rundt ;1998 : 1st Stage 1

Vuelta a Andalucía The Vuelta a Andalucía (Tour of Andalusia) or Ruta del Sol (Route of the Sun) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race first held in 1925. Since 2005, it has been a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became a part of the new UCI ...

: 1st Stage 5 Geelong Bay Classic Series : 9th Overall

::1st Stages 3a & 5 ;1999 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Geelong Bay Classic Series ::1st Stages 1, 4 & 5 : 1st Stage 20

: 1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg : 1st Stage 1a

Route du Sud The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...

::1st Stages 3 & 6 : 2nd

Trofeo Luis Puig The Trofeo Luis Puig is a single-day road bicycle race held in Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spa ...

: 4th Dwars door Gendringen : 9th Overall

::1st Stage 2 ;2000 : 1st Trofeo Alcúdia : 1st Stage 6

;2001 : 1st Trofeo Calvia :

::1st Stages 3 & 4 (

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) : International Uniqa Classic ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Stage 2

: 1st Stage 2

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: 8th Overall

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northw ...

::1st Stage 4 : 8th

Nokere Koerse Nokere Koerse is a European semi classic single day cycle race held in the Belgian region of Flanders. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Starting in 2016 it was a 1.HC event. The Nokere Koerse was ...

;2002 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey orange

Overall

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a s ...

::1st Stage 1 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Scheldeprijs : 1st Paris–Brussels : 1st

Delta Profronde Delta Profronde was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in Zeeland, Netherlands. In 2005, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was previously known as Ronde van Midden-Zeeland and it was an amateur race ...

: 1st

RaboRonde Heerlen RaboRonde Heerlen or Profronde van Heerlen ( en, Proftour Heerlen) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Heerlen, Netherlands. It's one of the largest post-Tour de France criteriums with about 50,000 ...

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 3 & 20 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 4 & 10 :

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlooki ...

::1st Stages 2 & 7 :

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 1, 3, 4 & 6 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Road race,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

: 2nd

GP Rik Van Steenbergen Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen (previously GP Rik Van Steenbergen) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Arendonk, Belgium. The race, paying respect to the famous Belgian rider of the 1940s and 1950s, quickly gained importa ...

: 3rd

Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transform ...

: 3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 4th

Omloop Het Volk Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

;2003 : 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 4 & 11 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 3

: 1st Stage 4

: 3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 4th Grand Prix de Fourmies : 6th Overall

::1st Stage 3 : 7th

::Held

after Stages 1–5, 18 & 19 ;2004 : 1st

Gouden Pijl Gouden Pijl ( en, Golden Arrow), is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing criterium held annually in Emmen, the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_typ ...

: 1st Memorial Samyn-Fayt-le-Franc : 1st

Profronde van Oostvoorne Profronde van Oostvoorne ( en, Proftour of Oostvoorne) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Oostvoorne, the Netherlands. The first edition was in 1985. The event is one of the post-Tour de France cri ...

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 9 ::Held Jersey yellow

after Stage 3 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 5 ::Held Jersey violet

after Stage 5 : Tour de Suisse ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 2nd Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 2nd Overall Tour of Qatar : 2nd Scheldeprijs : 2nd

: 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 4th Overall

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 H ...

::1st

Points classification : 8th

Sparkassen Giro Bochum The Sparkassen Giro Bochum is a road bicycle race which is annually held for both men's and women's around an urban circuit in the German city of Bochum, Germany. Since 2005 the men's race is part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Cir ...

;2005 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Bay Classic ::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 1st Paris–Brussels : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies :

::1st Stages 5, 7 & 13 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 2, 6 & 10 ::Held Jersey pink

after Stage 2 ::Held Jersey violet

after Stages 2–3, 6 & 10–12 :

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 6 : 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 5 Tour of Qatar : 1st Stage 4 Niedersachsen–Rundfahrt : 3rd

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: 4th

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 ...

;2006 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Grande Prémio Internacional Costa Azul ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Paris–Brussels : 1st Down Under Classic :

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 2, 4 & 6 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 2, 4 & 6 ::Held Jersey violet

after Stages 4–12 : 1st Stage 1

Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. It ...

: 1st Stage 7

: 2nd Overall

Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen Dwars door West-Vlaanderen is a road bicycle race through the Belgian province of West Flanders. History The race was originally created unter the name Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen (''English'': Tour of the Flemish Ardennes) in 1945 as a one-day ...

::1st Stage 2 : 2nd

Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen (previously GP Rik Van Steenbergen) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Arendonk, Belgium. The race, paying respect to the famous Belgian rider of the 1940s and 1950s, quickly gained importa ...

: 3rd Overall

: 4th Grand Prix de Fourmies : 5th Road race,

;2007 : 1st Paris–Brussels :

::1st Stage 1 ::Held Jersey green

after Stage 1 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 2 ::Held Jersey violet

after Stages 2 & 4 : 1st Stage 2

: 1st Stage 1 Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 5

: 1st Stage 3 Jayco Bay Classic : 1st Stage 3 Eneco Tour : 2nd Scheldeprijs : 3rd

Schaal Sels Schaal Sels is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Merksem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions wh ...

: 4th

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 ...

: 6th

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...

: 6th

: 8th Overall

: 9th

;2008 : 1st

Vattenfall Cyclassics The Hamburg Cyclassics (currently known as the Bemer Cyclassics for sponsorship purposes) is an annual one-day professional and amateur cycling race in and around Hamburg, Germany. Although the route varies, its distance is always around 250&nb ...

: 1st Paris–Brussels : Tour de Suisse ::1st Stages 3 & 4 : 1st Stage 2

: 3rd Scheldeprijs : 6th

;2009 : 1st Down Under Classic : 1st

Trofeo Cala Millor The Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca ( en, Tour of Majorca, ca, Challenge Volta Ciclista a Mallorca) is a series of four (five until 2012) professional one day road bicycle races held on the Spanish island of Mallorca in late January or earl ...

: 1st Stage 3

Tour de Picardie The Tour de Picardie was a professional multi-stage cycle road race that was held between 1936 and 2016 in Picardy Picardy (; Picard and french: Picardie, , ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 Ja ...

;2010 : 1st Trofeo Palma de Mallorca : 1st Stage 1 Eneco Tour : 2nd Scheldeprijs : 2nd

: 4th Overall

: 6th Grand Prix de Fourmies : 7th

Grote Prijs Jef Scherens Grote Prijs Jef Scherens is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country i ...

;2011 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour de Wallonie-Picarde ::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 1st Stage 4

: 2nd Tour de Mumbai : 4th

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a ...

: 5th Scheldeprijs : 8th Grand Prix de Fourmies

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Recognition

In 2015, he was an inaugural

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inductee. In 2019, inducted into

Sport Australia Hall of Fame The Sport Australia Hall of Fame was established on 10 December 1985 to recognise the achievements of Australian sportsmen and sportswomen. The inaugural induction included 120 members with Sir Don Bradman as the first inductee and Dawn Fraser t ...

References

External links

Australian Cycling Federation profile

Robbie McEwen's profila at Cycling Base
* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcewen, Robbie 1972 births Living people Australian Institute of Sport cyclists Australian male cyclists Australian Tour de France stage winners Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners Olympic cyclists of Australia Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Brisbane Australian Giro d'Italia stage winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Members of the Order of Australia Tour de France journalists Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees

Career

Tour de France

Commentating

Sprinting style

Personal life

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Recognition

References

Further reading

External links