Baden Cooke
 Cooke during the 2006 Bay Cycling Classic. |
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| Full name | Baden Cooke | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Cookie" / "Cooke van Baden" | ||||||||||||
| Born | 12 October 1978 Benalla, Victoria, Australia |
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| Height | 1.78m | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 73kg | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | GreenEDGE | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||
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| 2000–2001 2002–2005 2006–2007 2008 2009 2010–2011 2012– |
Mercury Française des Jeux Unibet.com Barloworld Vacansoleil Team Saxo Bank GreenEDGE |
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Baden Cooke (born 12 October 1978) is an Australian professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team GreenEDGE.[1]
Born in Benalla, Victoria, Cooke began competitive cycling at 11.[2] He completed secondary school at Galen College in Wangaratta, Victoria, and was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[3]
His professional career began with the Mercury team in 2000, though he found racing in Europe to be more challenging than initially expected. Nevertheless, he adapted. He was more successful during that debut season in Australia and America, where he won stages of the Herald Sun Tour and the Sea Otter Classic, respectively.[2] Having moved to the French team Française des Jeux in 2002, Cooke competed in the Commonwealth Games that year, finishing third behind fellow Australians Stuart O'Grady and Cadel Evans. He also participated in the Tour de France in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2003 he won the sprinters points classification competition green jersey by two points in a tight finish on Stage 20 on the Champs-Élysées with fellow Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen second and O'Grady seventh in the final points classification. In 2004 Cooke came 12th in the competition for the green jersey.
Cooke represented Australia in the road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics along with McEwen, Michael Rogers, O'Grady and Matt White, but did not finish .
Cooke raced 2006 and 2007 for Unibet.com. He joined Barloworld for 2008 but in 2009 moved to Dutch cycling team Vacansoleil.[4] Cooke announced on his website that he will ride for Team Saxo Bank in 2010[5] - he continued with that team in 2011, before moving to the new GreenEDGE team for the 2012 season.[1]
[edit] Cycling career
- 1996
- 1st
U-19 Points Race Champion - 1st Bendigo Tour
- 1st Criterium Bike SA Race
- 2000
- 1st Madison Champion
- 1st Prix de Bles d'Or
- 1st Stage 7 Rapport Tour
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Criterium Competition Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 5 Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 9 Herald Sun Tour
- 2001
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 10 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Stage 4 Sea Otter Classic
- 2002
- 1st
Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 1st Tro-Bro Léon
- 1st Stage 1 GP du Midi Libre
- 1st Stage 8 Circuit des Mines
- 3rd GP Ouest France-Plouay
- 3rd
2002 Commonwealth Games Road race - 5th Paris-Bruxelles
- 9th Road Race World Championchips
- 2003
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de France
- 1st
Points Classification
- 1st
- 1st Stage 9 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1st GP de Fourmies
- 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen Waregem
- 4th Paris–Tours
- 7th Paris–Bourges
- 2004
- 1st Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 1st Stage 1 Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 3 Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 5 Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 2 Three Days of De Panne
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 6
- 2005
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Poland
- 1st Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 5 Herald Sun Tour
- 5th Stage 7 Tour de France
- 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 5th Stage 2 Giro d'Italia
- 6th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2006
- 1st GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 1st Stage 1 Course de la Paix
- 1st Halle–Ingooigem
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Wallonie
- 5th Overall Tour of Denmark
- 6th Paris–Tours
- 10th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 2007
- 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges
- 4th Paris-Bruxelles
- 6th Omloop Het Volk
- 8th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2008
- 1st Stage 2 Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas y Villalba
- 1st Stage 1 Geelong Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 3 Herald Sun Tour
- 5th Stage 5 Tour de France
- 5th Stage 1 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2009
- 2nd Stage 1 Tour Down Under
- 3rd Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2010
- 1st Stage 4 Bay Classic Series
- 2011
- 2nd Paris–Bourges
- 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 10th Gent–Wevelgem
[edit] References
- ^ a b Farrand, Stephen (27 August 2011). "Baden Cooke and Matt Wilson to ride for GreenEdge in 2012". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/baden-cooke-and-matt-wilson-to-ride-for-greenedge-in-2012. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ a b Gabriella Ekstrom (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Baden Cooke". cyclingnews.com. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/interviews/badencooke01.shtml.
- ^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics
- ^ "Baden Cooke naar Nederlandse ploeg Vacansoleil". sportweek.nl. 2008. http://www.sportweek.nl/wielrennen/81883/Baden_Cooke_naar_Nederlandse_ploeg_Vacansoleil.
- ^ "Team Saxo Bank for 2010". www.badencooke.com.au. 2009. http://www.badencooke.com.au/nucleus/index.php?itemid=271.
[edit] External links
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- 1978 births
- Living people
- Australian cyclists
- Australian Tour de France stage winners
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Australia
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
- Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- People from Benalla
- Sportspeople from Victoria (Australia)
- Australian Institute of Sport alumni
