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Matthew Gilmore Personal information Full name Matthew Gilmore Born 11 September 1972
Belgium
Team information Current team Retired Discipline Track Role Rider Professional team(s) 1996–1999
2000
2001
2002
2003–2007RDM
Memory Card-Jack & Jones
Vlaanderen-T Interim
Mapei-Quick Step
Chocolade JacquesMedal recordCompetitor for Belgium
Track cycling Olympic Games Silver Sydney 2000 Madison Infobox last updated on
22 May 2007Matthew Gilmore (born 11 September 1972 in Ghent) is an Belgian-Australian retired track cyclist, who mostly competed and was most successful on track for Belgium. Although Gilmore was born in and represented Belgium, he is the son of Australian racing cyclist Graeme Gilmore and competed with an Australian licence earlier in his career, changing to Belgium on 15 June 1998. Gilmore is also the nephew of British racing cyclist Tom Simpson.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's madison event together with Etienne De Wilde. That year, he rode for Danish road bicycle racing Memory Card-Jack & Jones. Before that he rode for SPAR-RDM, and afterwards he changed to Vlaanderen-T Interim.
External links
- Official website
- Matthew Gilmore profile at Cycling Archives
Categories:- Belgian cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Belgium
- People from Ghent
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Belgian cycling biography stubs
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