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Nick Gates
Gates in 2007Personal information Full name Nick Gates Born 10 March 1972
Sydney, AustraliaHeight 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Weight 71 kg (160 lb) Team information Discipline Road Role Rider Professional team(s) 1996
1997
1998-1999
2000
2001
2002
2003–2004
2005–2008Giant-Australian Institute of Sport
ZVVZ-Giant-Australian Institute of Sport
Die Continentale-Olympia
Team Hohenfelder-Concorde
Agro-Adler-Brandenburg
Team Wiesenhof
Lotto-Domo
Predictor-LottoMajor wins National Champion (1996)
Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic (1996)Infobox last updated on
31 January 2009Nick Gates (born 10 March 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer.
In 1996, Gates won the Commonwealth Bank Classic.[1]
Gates twice completed in the Tour de France, riding for the Lotto-Domo team, but failed to finish either event, pulling out after the 15th stage in 2003[2] and after the first stage in 2004.[3]
His career ended with a fairytale victory in his self-named event, the Nick Gates Classic, in Townsville in 2008, where he won with the assistance of long-time teammate, Robbie McEwen.[4]
Contents
Palmares
- 1996
- 1st
National Road Race Champion
- 1st
Overall Commonwealth Bank Classic
- 1997
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Tasmania
- 1998
- 1st Stage 12 Commonwealth Bank Classic
- 1999
- 3rd Overall Tour of Japen
- 1st Stage 3
- 2000
- 1st Harsewinkel
- 2001
- 1st 1st Gold Coast-Nerang
- 1st Neuss
- 2004
- 1st Burleigh
- 2006
- 1st Surfers Paradise
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 part b TTT Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale Coppi-Bartali
- 2008
- 1st Nick Gates Classic
Tour de France Results
References
External links
- Nick Gates profile at Cycling Archives
Categories:- 1972 births
- Living people
- Australian cyclists
- Track cyclists
- Sportspeople from Sydney
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