Gary Sutton (born 27 March 1955) is a cycling coach and a former professional racing cyclist. In 1980, Sutton became the amateur World Champion in the Points Race.
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| Full name | Gary Sutton | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 March 1955 Moree, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track & Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider, Coach | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1982 | Termolan - Galli | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | Termolan - Galli - Ciocc | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Clarence St. Cyclery | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | Spenco - Gazelle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | PMS - Falcon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Amateur World Points Race Champion - 1980. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sutton was born in Moree, New South Wales. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1] He was one of the four men to win gold in the team pursuit for Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games along with his brother, Shane Sutton, who has worked as National Technical Director for British Cycling. Gary is also the father of Christopher Sutton, a professional racing cyclist.
After retiring from competition, Sutton became a coach, spending 26 years as a national coach with Cycling Australia. In May 2017, it was announced that Cycling Australia would not renew the contract for his position as women's endurance coach beyond the end of June.[2] In August of the same year, USA Cycling announced that Sutton had been appointed as their track endurance head coach.[3]
Sutton partnered Hugh Porter as the BBC's commentary team for the cycling events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Palmarès edit
- 1974
- 2nd
Team Pursuit, Commonwealth Games - 3nd
Pursuit, Commonwealth Games
- 1978
- 1st
Team Pursuit Commonwealth Games (with Colin Fitzgerald, Kevin Nichols and Shane Sutton)
- 1980
- 1st Prologue, GP Wilhelm Tell
- 1st Amateur Points Race 1980 Track Cycling World Championships
- 1982
- 8th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
- 1st and fastest time Goulburn to Sydney Classic[4]
- 1983
- 1st Bendigo International Madison with Shane Sutton
- 1984
- 1st Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 3, Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 6, Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 9, Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 18, Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 3, Yorkshire Classic (Harrogate)
- 1st Whitby
- 4th Newport, East Riding of Yorkshire
- 5th Yorkshire Classic (Harrogate)
1990
- 9th Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 14, Herald Sun Tour
References edit
- ^ "Garry Sutton Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ^ Woodpower, Zeb (18 May 2017). "Gary Sutton let go from Cycling Australia coaching role". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "USA Cycling announce Gary Sutton as head track endurance coach". cyclingnews.com. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "Goulburn to Sydney - Professional" (PDF). Cycling NSW. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
External links edit
- Gary Sutton at Cycling Archives
- Gary Sutton at CycleBase