Bradley McGee

Bradley McGee

Personal information
Full name	Bradley John McGee
Born	(1976-02-24) 24 February 1976 Sydney
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Directeur sportif
Rider type	Time trialist
Professional teams
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Managerial team
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Major wins
Tour de France 2 stages Giro d'Italia 1 stage
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing Australia Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team pursuit 2004 Athens Individual pursuit 1996 Atlanta Individual pursuit 1996 Atlanta Team pursuit 2000 Sydney Individual pursuit UCI Track World Championships 1995 Bogota Team pursuit 2002 Copenhagen Individual pursuit Commonwealth Games 1994 Victoria Individual pursuit 1994 Victoria Team pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Individual pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team pursuit 2002 Manchester Individual pursuit

Bradley John McGee OAM (born 24 February 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS). He started cycling in 1986 at the age of ten. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France.

Career

His greatest success as a road cyclist has been winning the 2003 prologue of the Tour de France, and leading the race for three days in 2003. In 2004 he wore the leader's pink jersey of the Giro d'Italia for one day. In 2005 he wore the leader's golden jersey for four days in the Vuelta a España. He was the first Australian to lead the Tour of Spain, and the first to wear the leader's jersey of all three Grand Tours.

Brad McGee riding for Française des Jeux during the Stage 20 individual time trial of the 2005 Tour de France.

As a track cyclist and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder he met success in individual and team events. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record time of 3:58.233. He won a silver medal for the Olympic 4000m pursuit. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in his home town of Sydney, he set an Australian record of 4 minutes, and won a bronze medal for the pursuit. In Atlanta at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won two bronze medals, for the individual pursuit and the team pursuit.

At the 1994 Commonwealth Games he won gold medals in the individual and team pursuit. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games he defended his Commonwealth titles to win gold in both events. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games he won the individual pursuit.

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include:

• 1993 Australian Male Cyclist of the year
• 1994 NSW junior male cyclist of the year
• 1995 NSW cyclist of the year
• 2002 Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year
• 2017 Sport Australia Hall of Fame athlete inductee

Bradley McGee is today a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation.

Major results

1993

1st Individual pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships

1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships

National Junior Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Teams pursuit

1994

Commonwealth Games

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

UCI Junior Track World Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

National Junior Track Championships

1st Elimination race

1st Individual pursuit

1st Scratch race

1st Team pursuit

1995

1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

National Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

1996

1st Stage 2 Tour of Cologne

Olympic Games

3rd Individual pursuit

3rd Team pursuit

1997

National Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

1st Individual pursuit – Quartu Sant'Elena, UCI Track World Cup Classics

1998

Commonwealth Games

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

1999

Oceania International Grand Prix

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

Tour de l'Avenir

1st Prologue & Stage 10

1st Prologue Tour de Normandie

2000

1st Stage 9 Herald Sun Tour

3rd Individual pursuit, Olympic Games

2001

1st Stage 4 Grand Prix du Midi Libre

1st Stage 2b Route du Sud

2002

1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

1st Individual pursuit, Commonwealth Games

1st Stage 7 Tour de France

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Points classification

1st Prologue

2003

Tour de France

1st Prologue

Held after Stages 1–3

1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 6 Ronde van Nederland

2004

Olympic Games

1st Team pursuit

2nd Individual pursuit

1st Individual pursuit – Manchester, UCI Track World Cup Classics

1st Overall Route du Sud

1st Stage 3

1st Prologue Tour de Romandie

8th Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Prologue

Held after Stages 1 & 3–4

2005

Tour de Suisse

1st Points classification

1st Stage 3

1st Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts

Vuelta a España

Held after Stages 1–4

2007

3rd Individual pursuit – Manchester, UCI Track World Cup Classics

2008

1st Team pursuit – Los Angeles, UCI Track World Cup Classics

3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

External links

• Bradley McGee at trap-friis.dk