Stuart O'Grady

Stuart O'Grady
OAM
O'Grady at the 2013 Down Under Classic
Personal information
Full nameStuart O'Grady
NicknameStuey
Born (1973-08-06) 6 August 1973 (age 51)
Adelaide, Australia
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad and track
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter/Classics specialist
Professional teams
1995–2003GAN
2004–2005Cofidis
2006–2010Team CSC
2011Leopard Trek
2012–2013GreenEDGE[1]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (1998, 2004)
2 TTT (2001, 2013)
Vuelta a España
2 TTT (2006, 2011)

Stage races

Tour Down Under (1999, 2001)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2003)
HEW Cyclassics (2004)
Paris–Roubaix (2007)
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Men's track cycling
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Madison
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 4000m Team Pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta 4000m Team Pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta Points Race
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria, BC Team Pursuit
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria, BC 10 Miles Scratch
Gold medal – first place 2002 Manchester Road Race
Silver medal – second place 1994 Victoria, BC Points Race
Silver medal – second place 1998 Kuala Lumpur Individual Time Trial
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Victoria, BC Individual Pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Hamar Team Pursuit
Gold medal – first place 1995 Bogotá Team Pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Stuttgart Team Pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Palermo Team Pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Bogotá Individual Pursuit

Stuart O'Grady OAM (born 6 August 1973) is a retired Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013.[2] A former track cyclist, O'Grady and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in the Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[3] O'Grady also won Paris–Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady competed in the Tour de France from 1997 and contended for the points classification in the Tour de France known as the green jersey, finishing second in the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 races. He wore the yellow jersey of general classification leader in 1998 and 2001.

With his participation in the 2013 Tour de France, he tied George Hincapie's record of 17 participations in the Tour de France. However, Hincapie was removed from three of his 17 starts for his part in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, and O'Grady himself admitted having been assisted by illicit erythropoietin (EPO) use at least on the 1998 Tour de France[4][5] (the Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk holds the absolute records of completed Tours de France, with 16 from 1970 to 1986).

He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games."[6][7] O'Grady is the current Race Director of the Tour Down Under.

  1. ^ Aubrey, Jane (8 August 2011). "GreenEdge confirms O'Grady recruitment". Cycling News. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ^ Wynn, Nigel (22 July 2013). "Stuart O'Grady retires from professional cycling". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stuart O'Grady Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
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  5. ^ Kogoy, Peter (29 June 2013). "Stuart O'Grady enters Tour de France record books as big names fall". The Australian. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Australia Day 2005 Honours List" (PDF). gg.gov.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Stuart O'Grady OAM". Cycling Australia. 10 November 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2013.