Graeme Brown
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Full name | Graeme Allen Brown | |||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Brownie | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Darwin, Australia | 9 April 1979|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road and Track | |||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||
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Randwick Botany Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||||||
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2002–2005 | Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo | |||||||||||||||||
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Graeme Allen Brown OAM (born 9 April 1979) is a professional cyclist and dual Olympic gold medallist from Australia. He currently rides for UCI Pro Continental team You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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Cycling career – road and track
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Brown's greatest success as a road cyclist has been in the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, including a record breaking 5 stage wins in 2005 and winning the Points Classification in 2003 and 2005.[citation needed]
As a track cyclist he won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Bradley McGee, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record breaking time of 3:58.233. He also won a gold medal with Stuart O'Grady for the Madison event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester he won two gold medals: for the Team pursuit, and the Scratch Race.
Brown was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2]
Mark French drug scandal
At a hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport cyclist Mark French gave sworn evidence that named Shane Kelly, Sean Eadie, Jobie Dajka and Graeme Brown were riders who often injected vitamins and supplements in his room.[3][4] 13 ampoules labelled EquiGen (equine growth hormone, an illegal doping agent), syringes and vitamins had been discovered by cleaners outside French's boarding room at the Australian Institute of Sport.[4] On testing some of the syringes were also found to contain the EquiGen hormone.[4] French's lifetime ban was ultimately exonerated on appeal and Brown himself was never charged with any offense.
Personal life
Brown hails from Menai, an outer suburb of Sydney. He married former Australian Womens Road Cyclist Hayley Rutherford, and has 3 children. They separated in 2017.
Awards and recognition
Brown was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List.[citation needed] Other awards include NSW cyclist of the year.[citation needed]
Major results
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- 1996
- 1st Olympic Sprint U19 Australian Titles
- 1997
- 1st World U19 Team Pursuit Champion
- 1st Teams Pursuit U19 Australian Titles
- 1998
- 1st Stage 8 Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic
- 1999
- 1st Points Race Australian Titles
- 1st Team Pursuit Track World Cup
- 1st Teams Pursuit Oceania Intl Grand Prix
- 2000
- 1st Teams Pursuit Australian Titles
- 1st Madison Track World Cup
- 2001
- 1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 6 Giro delle Regioni
- 1st Stage 6 Tour of Japan
- 2002
- 1st Teams Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 1st Scratch Race 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 1st Points Race Track World Cup
- Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stages 6 & 10
- 2003
- 1st Team Pursuit World Titles
- 1st Australian Madison Champion with Mark Renshaw
- 1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under
- Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 5 & 7
- 1st Points classification Perth Criterium Series
- 2004
- 1st Olympic Team Pursuit
- 1st Olympic Madison (with Stuart O'Grady)
- 2005
- Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1, 5, 7, 9 & 10
- 2006
- Deutschland Tour
- 1st Stages 4 & 8
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of California
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne
- 2008
- 1st Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
- 1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
- 2009
- 1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
- Vuelta a Murcia
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 1st Nokere Koerse
- 2010
- 1st Stage 1 Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Austria
- 2013
- 4th Omloop van het Houtland
- 2016
- 1st Australian van der Ploeg Chop Championships
References
- ^ "Brown at Procyclingstats.com". Procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Herald Sun: Cyclist Mark French back in the thick of the action
- ^ a b c The Independent.co.uk: Australian cycling rocked by drugs claims
External links
- Official website
- Australian Cycling Federation Profile
- Graeme Brown at trap-friis.dk
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Australian male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic cyclists of Australia
- Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Darwin, Northern Territory
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Sportsmen from the Northern Territory
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Vuelta a España cyclists
- Giro d'Italia cyclists
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Australian track cyclists