Nick Gates (cyclist)

Nick Gates

Gates in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Nick Gates
Born	(1972-03-10) 10 March 1972 Sydney, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Domestique
Professional team
1996–1997	Giant–Australian Institute of Sport
1998–1999	Die Continentale–Olympia
2000	Team Hohenfelder–Concorde
2001	Agro–Adler–Brandenburg
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Major wins
Australian National Road Race Champion (1996) Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic (1996)

Nick Gates (born 10 March 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer.

In 1996 Gates won the Commonwealth Bank Classic and the Australian national road race title.

Gates twice competed in the Tour de France, riding for the Lotto-Domo team, but failed to finish either event, pulling out after the 15th stage in 2003 and after the first stage in 2004.

His career ended with a fairytale victory in his self-named event, the Nick Gates Classic, in Townsville in 2008, where he won with the assistance of long-time teammate, Robbie McEwen.

Major results

1996

1st Road race, National Road Championships

1st Overall Commonwealth Bank Classic

1997

1st Stage 1 Tour of Tasmania

1998

1st Stage 12 Commonwealth Bank Classic

1999

3rd Overall Tour of Japan

1st Stage 3

2000

1st Harsewinkel

2001

1st Gold Coast-Nerang

1st Neuss

2004

1st Burleigh

2006

1st Surfers Paradise

2007

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale Coppi-Bartali

2008

1st Nick Gates Classic

Tour de France results

• 2003 – DNF
• 2004 – DNF

External links

• Nick Gates at Cycling Archives (archive)