Bradley McGee

Bradley McGee
Personal information
Full name	Bradley John McGee
Born	24 February 1976 (age 48); 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 teams
1999–2007	Française des Jeux
2008	Team CSC
Managerial team
2009–2012	Saxo Bank–SunGard
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (2002, 2003) Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2004)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing Australia
Olympic Games
UCI Track World Championships
Commonwealth Games

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).^[1] He started cycling in 1986 at the age of ten. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France.^{[citation needed]}

Career edit

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

Brad McGee riding for Française des Jeux during the Stage 20 individual time trial of the 2005 Tour de France.

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 19.25 seconds, 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.

At the 1994 Commonwealth Games, he won gold medals in the individual and team pursuit. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games he defended his Commonwealth titles to win gold in both events. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games he won the individual pursuit.

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include:

1993 Australian Male Cyclist of the year
1994 NSW junior male cyclist of the year
1995 NSW cyclist of the year
2002 Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year
2017 Sport Australia Hall of Fame athlete inductee^[2]

Bradley McGee is today a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation.^[3]