Robbie McEwen
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Full name | Robbie McEwen | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Rocket Robbie | ||||||||||||||
Born | Brisbane, Australia | 24 June 1972||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st) | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Technical advisor/sprint coach | ||||||||||||||
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Robbie McEwen (born 24 June 1972 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer. He last rode for You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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A former Australian BMX champion, McEwen switched to road racing in 1990 at 18. He raced as a professional from 1996 until 2012. McEwen lives in Australia with his Belgian wife Angélique Pattyn, his son Ewan, and his daughters Elena and Claudia. In 2011 he published an autobiography, One Way Road. McEwen lived a long time in the Belgian town of Everbeek and is fluent in Dutch.
He retired from the World Tour after riding the 2012 Tour of California.[3]
Career
After 4 years of moving through the regional, state & national levels of cycling, McEwen started at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra under the A.I.S. road cycling coach Heiko Salzwedel. The first signs of his sprinting prowess on the international stage were at the "Peace Race", winning three stages for the Australian National team.
He competed in the road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics (23rd) and the 2000 Summer Olympics (19th).[4] He was 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 again selected for Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics (11th) as part of the road race team.
McEwen was named 2002 Australian Cyclist of the Year, 2002 Male Road Cyclist of the Year and 1999 Australia Male Road Cyclist of the Year.
After spending 16 seasons racing for foreign teams (Dutch - Rabobank & Farm Frites, Belgian - Lotto, Russian - Katusha, USA - RadioShack) in September 2011 he signed the new Australian team You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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Tour de France
McEwen has participated in the Tour de France 12 times, in 1997 (117th), 1998 (89th), 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. 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 won stage 5 to Montargis, stage 7 to Karlsruhe in Germany and stage 13 to Montpellier. In 2006 he won stages 2, 4 and 6 to Esch-sur-Alzette, St Quentin and Vitré.
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 20 kilometres (12 mi) to go. He injured his knee and wrist 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, his knee injury became worse and he failed to finish stage eight within the time limit.
In 2002 McEwen became the first Australian to win the Points classification in the Tour de France. By 2006, McEwen had won the Points classification in the Tour de France three times in this race, in 2002, 2004 and again in 2006, defeating rivals such as fellow Australians Baden Cooke and Stuart O'Grady, and international competitors like Erik Zabel of Germany, Tom Boonen of Belgium and Thor Hushovd of Norway.
McEwen's first win in the 2002 Tour de France saw him take the green jersey (symbol for the leader of the Points classification in the Tour de France) from Zabel, with O’Grady third and Cooke fourth. In 2004 McEwen won the points classification for a second time, defeating Hushovd and Erik Zabel. McEwen had fractured two transverse process (vertebrae) in a mass pile up on stage 6 and continued the race in extreme pain, making his stage 9 win in Gueret all the more remarkable.
McEwen won his third and final Points classification in the 2006 Tour de France, this time with Zabel second and Hushovd third.
In 2012, he announced that the Tour of California would be the last professional race of his career. He struggled to reach the finishing line of the mountain stages in the gruppetto. He humorously said after his arrival on the final stage in Los Angeles: "This was a good race to pick as my last because I suffered so much this week I won't miss it." He was awarded the "Most Courageous Rider" jersey at the end of the race to commemorate his last day of professional cycling.[5] After retiring from racing McEwen remained with Orica-GreenEDGE as a technical advisor and sprint coach.[6]
Sprinting style
McEwen was known as a particularly cunning and tactical sprinter. Where many teams would use 'Lead-Out Trains' to secure a stage win for their selected sprinter, McEwen achieved many of his victories either with one lead-out man, or often none at all, by aggressively and intelligently positioning himself within the peloton in the final kilometres. Although clearly being an accomplished sprinter, it is interesting to note that McEwen himself was never extolled in media circles as the fastest sprinter in the world, despite having consistently beaten those afforded the moniker, such as Alessandro Petacchi, Mario Cipollini and Erik Zabel.[citation needed]
Fellow Australian cyclist Stuart O'Grady considers McEwen to be "one of the fastest, most powerful accelerators the planet has ever seen".[citation needed]
Palmares
- 2011
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Wallonie
- 1st Overall Tour de Wallonie-Picarde
- 1st Stage 1 & 4
- 2nd Tour de Mumbai
- 2010
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Mallorca
- 1st Stage 1 Eneco Tour
- 2nd Scheldeprijs
- 2nd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
- 2009
- 1st Down Under Classic
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Mallorca
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Picardie
- 2008
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie
- Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 3 & 4
- 1st Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 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
- 2006
- 1st Sprint Classification Tour de France
- 1st Stage 2, 4 & 6
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 2, 4 & 6
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 1st Jacobs Creek Classic
- 1st Aalst Criterium BEL
- 2005
- 1st Australian National Road Race Championships
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 5, 7 & 13
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
- Giro d'Italia
- Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 1, 2 & 6
- 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 1st Overall Bay Classic
- 1st Stage 1 & 4
- 2004
- 1st Sprint Classification Tour de France
- 1st Stage 5 Giro d'Italia
- Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 2 & 4
- Tour Down Under
- 1st Aalst Criterium
- 1st Memorial Samyn-Fayt-le-Franc
- 1st Wateringse Wielerdag
- 1st Spektakel van Steenwijk
- 1st Profronde van Ooostvoorne
- 1st Gouden Pijl
- 2003
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 4 & 11
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 4 Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen Waregem
- 1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
- 2002
- 1st Australian National Road Race Championships
- 1st Sprint Classification Tour de France
- 1st Stage 3 & 20
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 4 & 10
- Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 2 & 7
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- Tour Down Under
- 1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
- 1st Stage 2 & 3
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- 1st Delta Profronde
- 1st RaboRonde Heerlen
- 2001
- 1st Trofeo Palmanova-Palmanova
- 1st Circuit de Brabant Wallon
- 1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Wallonie
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Méditerranéen
- Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 3 & 4
- International Uniqa Classic
- 1st Stage 2 & 3
- 1st Stage 5 Challenge Mallorca
- 2000
- 1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under
- 1st Trofeo Cala Millor
- 1999
- 1st Stage 20 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 1a Route du Sud
- 1st Overall Geelong Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 1, 4 & 5
- 1998
- Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 3a & 5
- 1st Trofeo Alcudia
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Stage 5 Geelong Bay Classic Series
- 1997
- 1st in Noosa International Criterium
- Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 2 & 3a
- 1st Overall Geelong Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 1, 2 & 4
- 1st Stage 2 Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg
- 1996
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia
- 1st Stage 3b Regio-Tour International
Recognition
In 2015, he was an inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductee. [7]
References
- ^ a b Hinds, Alex (1 September 2011). "McEwen and Beppu to GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "McEwen's career comes full circle - from Tour DuPont to Los Angeles". Cycling News. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ "Robbie McEwen Retires". Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ^ "Robbie McEwen". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
- ^ "Robert Gesink: From broken leg to Tour of California win". Orange County Register. Associated Press. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ^ Weislo, Laura (17 May 2016). "McEwen's career comes full circle - from Tour DuPont to Los Angeles". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ "Inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductees". Cycling Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
Further reading
- McEwen, Robbie; Pickering, Edward (2011). One Way Road: The Autobiography of Three Time Tour de France Green Jersey Winner Robbie McEwen. Sydney: Random House. ISBN 978-1-86471-258-2. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
External links
- Australian Cycling Federation profile
- Robbie McEwen's profila at Cycling Base
- Robbie McEwen at Cycling Archives (archived)
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- 1972 births
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- Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
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- Australian Tour de France stage winners
- Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners
- Olympic cyclists of Australia
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Brisbane
- Australian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
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