- Graeme Brown
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ridername = Graeme Brown
fullname = Graeme Allen Brown
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updated = 20 December 2007Graeme Allen Brown
OAM (born 9 April 1979 in Darwin,Northern Territory ) is a professional cyclist from Australia, who started cycling in 1995 at seventeen years of age.He is a member of Rabobank, which is a professional cycling team on the
UCI ProTour , and also of the St George Cycling Club. He lives in Menai, an outer suburb of Sydney.He is married to former Australian women's cycling representative Hayley Rutherford.His greatest success as a road cyclist has been in the
Tour de Langkawi inMalaysia , including a record breaking 5 stage wins in 2005 and winning the Points Classification in 2003 and 2005. His ambition is to be a stage winner of theTour de France and wear the yellow and green jersey in the Tour de France.As a track cyclist he has met with a great deal of success in both individual and team events. He won a
gold medal at the2004 Summer Olympics inAthens as a member of the team pursuit (withBradley McGee ,Brett Lancaster , andLuke Roberts ) in world record breaking time of 3:58.233. He also won a gold medal withStuart O'Grady for the Madison event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the2002 Commonwealth Games inManchester he won two gold medals: for theTeam pursuit , and the Scratch Race.He was awarded the
Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include NSW cyclist of the year.Career highlights
;1996:1st Olympic Sprint U19 Australian Titles;1997:1st Teams Pursuit World Junior Titles:1st Teams Pursuit U19 Australian Titles;1998:1st Stage 8 Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic;1999:1st Team Pursuit Track World Cup:1st Teams Pursuit Oceania Intl Grand Prix:1st Points Race Australian Titles;2000:1st Madison Track World Cup :1st Teams Pursuit Australian Titles ;2001:1st Stage 1
Tour Down Under :1st Stage 6 Giro delle Regioni:1st Stage 6 Tour of Japan;2002:1st Teams Pursuit2002 Commonwealth Games :1st Scratch Race2002 Commonwealth Games :1st Points Race Track World Cup:Tour de Langkawi :::Winner stages 6 and 10;2003:1st Team Pursuit World Titles:1st Stage 6Tour Down Under :Tour de Langkawi :::Winner stages 5 and 7::Winner Points Classification:1st Points classification Perth Criterium Series:1st Australian Madison Titles (withMark Renshaw );2004: Team Pursuit:);2005:Tour de Langkawi :::Winner stages 1, 5, 7, 9 and 10::Winner Points Classification;2006:1st Stage 42006 Deutschland Tour fromHeidenheim toBad Tölz :1st Stage 82006 Deutschland Tour fromBad Krozingen toKarlsruhe ;2007:1st Stage 1 Tour of California:1st Stage 3Vuelta a Murcia :1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne;2008:1stTrofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona :1st Stage 1Vuelta a Murcia External links
* [http://www.graemebrown.com Official website for Graeme Brown]
* [http://www.cycling.org.au/Content/NavigationMenu/H_P_/Rider_Profiles/Male_Riders/Graeme_Brown.htm Australian Cycling Federation Profile]
*trapfriis|australia.Brown.htmPersondata
NAME= Brown, Graeme
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH=1979-04-09
PLACE OF BIRTH=Darwin, Northern Territory , Australia
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