Simon Gerrans
Gerrans at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné
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| Full name | Simon Gerrans | |||||||||
| Born |
16 May 1980 Melbourne, Australia |
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| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||
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| Current team | Orica–Scott | |||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||
| Rider type | Puncheur | |||||||||
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| 2003 | Team Ringerike SK | |||||||||
| 2003 | Carvalhelhos-Boavista (stagiaire) | |||||||||
| 2004 | AG2R Prévoyance (stagiaire) | |||||||||
| Professional team(s) | ||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | AG2R Prévoyance | |||||||||
| 2008 | Crédit Agricole | |||||||||
| 2009 | Cervélo TestTeam | |||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team Sky | |||||||||
| 2012– | GreenEDGE | |||||||||
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Simon Gerrans (born 16 May 1980) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for the Australian UCI ProTour team, Orica–Scott. Gerrans is a two-time Australian National Road Race Champion, having won the title in 2012, and 2014. His biggest triumphs are winning the Tour Down Under a record four times, and getting the better of one-day races such as the 2009 GP Ouest-France, the 2012 Milan–San Remo, the 2012 and 2014 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, the 2014 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, and stage wins in all three Grand Tours. In the 2013 Tour de France, Gerrans claimed the yellow jersey on Stage 4 after being part of the winning team in the Stage 4 team time trial in Nice.
Gerrans was born in Melbourne, Victoria and grew up in Mansfield, Victoria.
He took up cycling after injuring his knee and speaking with his neighbour, former Yellow Jersey holder Phil Anderson whom he credits with introducing him to the sport. Gerrans was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
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