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Robbie McEwen
Medal record
Representing Australia
Road bicycle racing
World Championships

Robbie McEwen
Personal information
Full name	Robbie McEwen
Nickname	Cribbens, Poofo, Frippo, Pocket Rocket
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st)
Team information
Current team	Katusha
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Major wins
	Tour de France, Green Jersey (2002, 2004, 2006), 12 stages; Giro d'Italia, 12 stages; Australia Road Race Champion (2002, 2005); Paris-Brussels (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007)

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Robbie McEwen (born June 24, 1972 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, for the Katusha team on the UCI ProTour, specializing in sprint finishes. As a triple winner of the Tour de France's sprinters' classification, at his peak , he was considered one of the fastest sprinters in the world.

A former junior Australian BMX champion, McEwen switched to road racing in 1990 at 18. He was first selected for the Australian national road team in 1994. McEwen lives in Brakel, Belgium with his wife Angélique Pattyn, his son Ewan, and his daughter Elena for the 9mths of the European cycling calendar. Robbie spends the remaining months back in Australia for summer on the Gold Coast where he has also recently taken ownership of Piccolo coffee shop at Miami.

Career

McEwen started road cycling in 1992 at the Institute of Sport in Canberra under head coach Heiko Salzwedel. The first signs of his sprinting prowess on the international stage were stage wins in The Peace Race riding for the Australian national team .He competed in the road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics (23rd) and the 2000 Summer Olympics (19th). Also included on the Australian team for the 1994 UCI Road Cycling World Championship in Italy, and the 2002 UCI Road Cycling World Championship in Belgium where he won a silver medal. McEwen was selected for Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the road race team of Michael Rogers, Stuart O'Grady, Baden Cooke and Matthew White. He was named 2002 Australian Cyclist of the Year, 2002 Male Road Cyclist of the Year and 1999 Australia Male Road Cyclist of the Year.

Tour de France

McEwen has participated in the Tour de France 11 times, in 1997 (117th), 1998 (89th), 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He has had 12 stage wins. In 1999 on stage 20 he won the sprint in Paris on the Champs-Elysées. In 2002 he won stage 3: Metz - Reims and stage 20: Melun – Paris. In 2004 he won stages 3 and 9. In 2005, he was relegated in stage 3 by referees after clashing with fellow Australian Stuart O’Grady. He won stage 5 to Montargis, stage 7 to Karlsruhe in Germany and stage 13 to Montpellier.

He started the 2007 Tour with a victorious sprint on stage 1 to Canterbury. The stage win was seen as remarkable as he had crashed with 20km to go. He landed on his wrist and elbow but with the help of his team he clawed his way back to the bunch to win the sprint by over a bike length. The injuries he sustained from this crash did not prevent him from continuing but eventually he was forced out of the race when the Tour entered the Mountains and he failed to finish stage eight within the time limit.

By 2006, McEwen had won the sprinters' green jersey points competition three times in the Tour de France in 2002 and 2004 against rival Australians, Baden Cooke and Stuart O'Grady, and again in 2006 against Erik Zabel and Thor Hushovd. He was the first Australian to win the overall Sprint Classification of the Tour de France.

In 2002 McEwen won the green jersey with O’Grady third and Cooke fourth. In 2003 Baden Cooke won the green jersey with McEwen second and O’Grady seventh.

In 2004 McEwen won the green jersey for a second time defeating Thor Hushovd of Norway, and Erik Zabel of Germany, with O'Grady 4th and Cooke 12th. He had fractured two vertebrae early in the Tour and had ridden the race in pain. Three days after the Tour de France he came second to Lance Armstrong in a criterium in the Netherlands.^[1]

Major victories

1996

1st Stage 4 Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia

1st Stage 3 part b Regio Tour International

1997

1st in Noosa International Criterium

1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland, Haarlem

1st in Stage 3 part a Ronde van Nederland

1st Overall Geelong Bay Classic Series

1st Stage 1

1st Stage 2

1st Stage 4

1st Stage 2 Quatre jours de Dunkerque

1st Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg

1998

1st Stage 3 part a Ronde van Nederland

1st Stage 5 Ronde van Nederland

1st Trofeo Alcudia

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Andalucia

1st Stage 5 Geelong Bay Classic Series

1999

1st Stage 20 Tour de France

1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland

1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 1 part a Route du Sud

1st Overall Geelong Bay Classic Series

1st Stage 1

1st Stage 4

1st Stage 5

2000

1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under

1st Trofeo Cala Millor

2001

1st Trofeo Palmanova-Palmanova

1st Circuit de Brabant Wallon

1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland

1st Stage 4 Tour de la Region Wallonne

1st Stage 2 Tour Méditerranéen

1st Stage 3 Herald Sun Tour

1st Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour

1st Stage 2 International Uniqa Classic

1st Stage 3 International Uniqa Classic

1st Stage 5 Challenge Mallorca

2002

1st

Australian National Road Race Championships

1st

Sprint Classification Tour de France

1st Stage 3

1st Stage 20

1st Stage 4 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 10 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 2 Paris-Nice

1st Stage 7 Paris-Nice

1st Paris-Brussels

1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under

1st Sprint Classification

1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges

1st Stage 1

1st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

1st Stages 2

1st Stage 3

1st Grote Scheldeprijs

1st Delta Profronde

2003

1st Stage 4 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse

1stStage 4 Étoile de Bessèges

1st Dwars door Vlaanderen Waregem

1st Stage 3, Tour Down Under

2004

1st

Sprint Classification Tour de France

1st Stage 2

1st Stage 9

Held Maillot Jaune

from Stages 2-3

1st Stage 5, Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under

1st Sprint Classification

1st Aalst Criterium

1st Memorial Samyn-Fayt-le-Franc

1st Wateringse Wielerdag

1st Spektakel van Steenwijk

1st Profronde van Ooostvoorne

1st Gouden Pijl

2005

1st

Australian National Road Race Championships

1st Paris-Brussels

1st Stage 5 Tour de France

1st Stage 7 Tour de France

1st Stage 13 Tour de France

1st Stage 4, Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 2 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 10 Giro d'Italia

Held Maglia Rosa

from Stages 2-3

1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 2 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under

1st GP de Fourmies

1st Overall Bay Classic

1st Stage 1

1st Stage 4

2006

1st

Sprint Classification Tour de France

1st Stage 2

1st Stage 4

1st Stage 6

1st Stage 2 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 4 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia

1st Paris-Brussels

1st Jacobs Creek Classic

1st Aalst Criterium BEL

2007

1st Stage 1, Tour de France

1st Stage 5, Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 2, Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 1, Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 1, Tirreno-Adriatico

1st Stage 5, Tour Down Under

1st Stage 3, Jayco Bay Classic

1st Stage 3, Eneco Tour

1st Paris-Brussels

2008

1st Stage 2, Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 3, Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 4, Tour de Suisse

1st Vattenfall Cyclassics

1st Paris-Brussels

2009

1st Down Under Classic

1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Mallorca

1st Stage 3 Tour de Picardie,

References

^ Collins, Gerry (2 August 2004). "Robbie McEwen: Too tough to quit". ABC News. Retrieved 2007-07-29.

External links

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[tootough-1] Collins, Gerry (2 August 2004). "Robbie McEwen: Too tough to quit". ABC News. Retrieved 2007-07-29.

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 '''Robbie McEwen''' (born [[June 24]], [[1972]] in [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]]) is an [[Australia]]n professional [[road bicycle racer]], for the [[Team Katusha|Katusha]] team on the [[UCI ProTour]], specializing in sprint finishes.  As a triple winner of the [[Tour de France]]'s [[green jersey|sprinters' classification]], at his peak , he was considered one of the fastest [[Cycling sprinter|sprinters]] in the world.
-A former junior Australian [[BMX racing|BMX]] champion, McEwen switched to [[Road bicycle racing|road racing]] in 1990 at 18. He was first selected for the Australian national road team in 1994. McEwen lives in [[Brakel]], [[Belgium]] with his wife Angélique Pattyn, his son Ewan, and his daughter Alana.
+A former junior Australian [[BMX racing|BMX]] champion, McEwen switched to [[Road bicycle racing|road racing]] in 1990 at 18. He was first selected for the Australian national road team in 1994. McEwen lives in [[Brakel]], [[Belgium]] with his wife Angélique Pattyn, his son Ewan, and his daughter Elena for the 9mths of the European cycling calendar. Robbie spends the remaining months back in Australia for summer on the Gold Coast where he has also recently taken ownership of Piccolo coffee shop at Miami.
 ==Career ==