Gaze at the National Championships in 2015 in Rotorua
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Full name | Samuel William Gaze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Tokoroa, New Zealand |
12 December 1995 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Mountain bike racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Cross-country | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Samuel William "Sam" Gaze (born 12 December 1995) is a New Zealand cross-country cyclist. He won the U23 Cross-Country at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. At the Men's cross-country event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal behind fellow New Zealand rider Anton Cooper. Gaze was selected ahead of Cooper, who suffered medical conditions during 2016, to represent New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He had two punctures in the Olympic race and his gears failed, and he pulled out when he got lapped.
Of Māori descent, Gaze affiliates to the Te Āti Awa iwi.