Graeme Brown
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Graeme Allen Brown |
| Date of birth | April 9, 1979 |
| Country |  Australia |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road & Track |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| St George Cycling Club | |
| Professional team(s) | |
| Rabobank | |
| Infobox last updated on: | |
| 20 December 2007 | |
| Medal record | |||
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| Competitor for Australia |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | Athens 2004 | 4000m Team Pursuit | |
| Gold | Athens 2004 | Madison | |
Graeme Allen Brown OAM (born April 9, 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 (cycling), 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.
His greatest success as a road cyclist has been 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. His ambition is to be a stage winner of the Tour 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 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.
He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include NSW cyclist of the year.
[edit] 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 Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 1st Scratch Race 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 1st Points Race Track World Cup
- Tour de Langkawi:
- Winner stages 6 and 10
- 2003
- 1st Team Pursuit World Titles
- 1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under
- Tour de Langkawi:
- Winner stages 5 and 7
- Winner Points Classification
- 1st Points classification Perth Criterium Series
- 1st Australian Madison Titles (with Mark Renshaw)
- 2004
1st Olympic Team Pursuit- 1st Olympic Madison (with Stuart O'Grady)
- 2005
- Tour de Langkawi:
- Winner stages 1, 5, 7, 9 and 10
- Winner Points Classification
- 2006
- 1st Stage 4 2006 Deutschland Tour from Heidenheim to Bad Tölz
- 1st Stage 8 2006 Deutschland Tour from Bad Krozingen to Karlsruhe
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of California
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne
- 2008
- 1st Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
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| NAME | Brown, Graeme |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979-04-09 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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