Baden Cooke

Baden Cooke
	Cooke at the 2009 Four Days of Dunkirk
Personal information
Full name	Baden Cooke
Nickname	"Cookie"
Born	12 October 1978 (age 45); Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
2000–2001	Mercury
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Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France Points classification (2003) 1 individual stage (2003) One-day races and Classics Dwars door Vlaanderen (2002)
Medal record
Representing the Australia
Men's road bicycle racing
Commonwealth Games

Baden Cooke (born 12 October 1978) is an Australian retired professional racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2000 and 2013.^[2]

Born in Benalla, Victoria, Cooke began competitive cycling at 11.^[3] He completed secondary school at Galen College in Wangaratta, Victoria, and was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[4]

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.^[3] 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, 2005, 2008 and 2012. In 2003 he won the Green jersey which is the Points classification in the Tour de France 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 points classification.

Cooke represented Australia in the road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics along with McEwen, Michael Rogers, O'Grady and Matt White.

Cooke raced 2006 and 2007 for Unibet.com. He joined Barloworld for 2008 but in 2009 moved to Dutch cycling team Vacansoleil.^[5] Cooke announced on his website that he will ride for Team Saxo Bank in 2010^[6] – he continued with that team in 2011, before moving to the new You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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After retiring, Cooke announced that he was moving into rider management.^[7] In January 2014 he became the agent of former team-mate and winner of the 2013 Vuelta a España Chris Horner.^[8] He subsequently also became agent for Michael Matthews, Gert Steegmans and Janez Brajkovič.^[9]

He recently purchased a stake in Factor bikes and Black Inc wheels.

Career highlights

Major results

1996

1st

National Junior Points Race Championships

1st Bendigo Tour

1st Criterium Bike SA Race

2000

1st

National Madison Championships

1st Prix de Bles d'Or

Rapport Tour

1st Points classification

1st Stage 7

Herald Sun Tour

1st Stages 2, 5 & 9

1st Criterium competition

2001

Tour de l'Avenir

1st Points classification

1st Stages 6 & 10

1st Stage 4 Sea Otter Classic

2002

1st

Overall Herald Sun Tour

1st Stages 2 & 4

1st

Overall Paris–Corrèze

1st Stages 1

1st Dwars door Vlaanderen

1st Tro-Bro Léon

1st Stage 1 GP du Midi Libre

1st Stage 8 Circuit des Mines

3rd

Road race, Commonwealth Games

3rd GP Ouest France-Plouay

5th Paris–Brussels

9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

2003

1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

1st Grand Prix de Fourmies

Tour de France

1st

Points classification

1st Stage 2

Tour Down Under

1st Stages 1 & 4

1st Stage 9 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen

2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen

4th Paris–Tours

7th Paris–Bourges

2004

1st

Overall Bay Classic Series

1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

Herald Sun Tour

1st Stages 2, 3 & 5

Tour Méditerranéen

1st Stages 1 & 3

1st Stage 2 Three Days of De Panne

3rd Overall Tour Down Under

1st Stage 6

2005

Herald Sun Tour

1st Stages 4 & 5

1st Stage 1 Tour of Poland

5th Dwars door Vlaanderen

6th Gent–Wevelgem

2006

1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

1st Halle–Ingooigem

1st Stage 1 Course de la Paix

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–Brussels

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

2009

1st Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour

2010

1st Stage 4 Bay Classic Series

2011

2nd Paris–Bourges

5th Dwars door Vlaanderen

10th Gent–Wevelgem

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—
Tour de France	127	140	139	142	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	117	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF

Legend
DSQ	Disqualified
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ ^a ^b Farrand, Stephen (27 August 2011). "Baden Cooke and Matt Wilson to ride for GreenEdge in 2012". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Baden Cooke announces retirement". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
^ ^a ^b Gabriella Ekstrom (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Baden Cooke". cyclingnews.com.
^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Baden Cooke naar Nederlandse ploeg Vacansoleil". sportweek.nl. 2008.
^ "Team Saxo Bank for 2010". www.badencooke.com.au. 2009. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
^ Woodpower, Zeb (6 December 2013). "Interview with Baden Cooke". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ Quénet, Jeff (10 January 2014). "Chris Horner appoints Baden Cooke as his new representative". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ Benson, Daniel (16 October 2014). "Cooke in discussions with two new teams over Horner". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 30 October 2014.

External links

[Cooke-1] Farrand, Stephen (27 August 2011). "Baden Cooke and Matt Wilson to ride for GreenEdge in 2012". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

[Retirement-2] "Baden Cooke announces retirement". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.

[2001interview-3] Gabriella Ekstrom (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Baden Cooke". cyclingnews.com.

[4] AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[2008story-5] "Baden Cooke naar Nederlandse ploeg Vacansoleil". sportweek.nl. 2008.

[2010story-6] "Team Saxo Bank for 2010". www.badencooke.com.au. 2009. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.

[7] Woodpower, Zeb (6 December 2013). "Interview with Baden Cooke". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

[8] Quénet, Jeff (10 January 2014). "Chris Horner appoints Baden Cooke as his new representative". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

[9] Benson, Daniel (16 October 2014). "Cooke in discussions with two new teams over Horner". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 30 October 2014.

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