Graeme Brown

Graeme Brown
Brown at the 2010 Bay Classic Series
Personal information
Full nameGraeme Allen Brown
NicknameBrownie
Born (1979-04-09) 9 April 1979 (age 45)
Darwin, Australia
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur team
Randwick Botany Cycling Club
Professional teams
2002–2005Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo
2006–2014Rabobank
2015–2016Drapac Professional Cycling
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens 4000m Team Pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Madison
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Manchester 4000m Team Pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2002 Manchester Scratch Race

Graeme Allen Brown OAM (born 9 April 1979 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is an Australian former professional cyclist,[1] who competed professionally between 2002 and 2016 for the Ceramica Panaria–Navigare, Belkin Pro Cycling and Drapac Professional Cycling teams.

A former Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder,[2] Brown's greatest success as a road cyclist came in the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, including a record-breaking 5 stage wins in 2005 and winning the Points Classification in 2003 and 2005.[3]

As a track cyclist he won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Bradley McGee, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record-breaking time of 3:58.233. He also won a gold medal with Stuart O'Grady for the Madison event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester he won two gold medals: for the Team pursuit, and the Scratch Race.

  1. ^ "Brown at Procyclingstats.com". Procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. ^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "An interview with Graeme Brown". CyclingNews.com. 29 November 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2020.