Brad McGee

Bradley McGee

Personal information
Full name	Bradley John McGee
Born	(1976-02-24) 24 February 1976 (age 41) Sydney
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Directeur sportif
Rider type	Time trialist
Professional team(s)
1999–2007	Française des Jeux
2008	Team CSC
Managerial team(s)
2009–2012	Saxo Bank–SunGard
Major wins
Tour de France 2 stages Giro d'Italia 1 stage
Medal record Representing  Australia Track cycling Olympic Games Athens 2004 Team pursuit Athens 2004 Individual pursuit Atlanta 1996 Individual pursuit Atlanta 1996 Team pursuit Sydney 2000 Individual pursuit UCI Track World Championships 1995 Bogota Team pursuit 2002 Copenhagen Individual pursuit Commonwealth Games 1994 Victoria, BC, Canada Individual pursuit 1994 Victoria, BC, Canada Team pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Individual pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team pursuit 2002 Manchester Individual pursuit

Bradley John McGee OAM (born 24 February 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS). He started cycling in 1986 at the age of ten. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France.

His greatest success as a road cyclist has been winning the 2003 prologue of the Tour de France, and leading the race for three days in 2003. In 2004 he wore the leader's pink jersey of the Giro d'Italia for one day. In 2005 he wore the leader's golden jersey for four days in the Vuelta a España. He was the first Australian to lead the Tour of Spain, and the first to wear the leader's jersey of all three Grand Tours.

As a track cyclist and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder he met success in individual and team events. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record time of 3:58.233. He won a silver medal for the Olympic 4000m pursuit. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in his home town of Sydney, he set an Australian record of 4 minutes, and won a bronze medal for the pursuit. In Atlanta at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won two bronze medals, for the individual pursuit and the team pursuit.

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