Graeme Brown
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| Gold | Athens 2004 | 4000m Team Pursuit | |
| Gold | Athens 2004 | Madison | |
Graeme Brown OAM (born April 9, 1979 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is a professional cyclist from Australia, who started cycling in 1995 at seventeen years of age.
He is a member of Rabobank (cycling), which is a professional cycling team on the UCI ProTour, and also of the St George Cycling Club. He lives in Menai, an outer suburb of Sydney.
His greatest success as a road cyclist has been in the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, including a record breaking 5 stage wins in 2005 and winning the Points Classification in 2003 and 2005. His ambition is to be a stage winner of the Tour de France and wear the yellow and green jersey in the Tour de France.
As a track cyclist he has met with a great deal of success in both individual and team events. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Bradley McGee, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record breaking time of 3:58.233. He also won a gold medal with Stuart O'Grady for the Madison event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester he won two gold medals: for the Teams Pursuit, and the Scratch Race.
He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include NSW cyclist of the year.
[edit] Career highlights
2007 1st Stage 1 Tour of California USA; Vuelta a Murcia stage 2;
2006 1st Stage 4 Deutschland Tour 2006 from Heidenheim to Bad Tölz GER; 1st Stage 8 Deutschland Tour 2006 from Bad Krozingen to Karlsruhe GER;
2005 1st Stage 1 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Stage 5 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Stage 7 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Stage 9 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Stage 10 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Points Classification Tour de Langkawi MAS;
2004 1st Olympic Team Pursuit GRE - WR; 1st Olympic Madison (with Stuart O'Grady);
2003 1st Team Pursuit World Titles GER - WR; 1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under AUS; 1st Stage 5 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Stage 7 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Points classification Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Points classification Perth Criterium Series AUS; 1st Australian Madison Titles (with Mark Renshaw);
2002 1st Teams Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games ENG (WR); 1st Scratch Race 2002 Commonwealth Games ENG; 1st Points Race Track World Cup RUS; 1st Stage 6 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 1st Stage 10 Tour de Langkawi MAS;
2001 1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under AUS; 1st Stage 6 Giro delle Regioni ITA; 1st Stage 6 Tour of Japan JPN;
2000 1st Madison Track World Cup COL; 1st Teams Pursuit Australian Titles NSW;
1999 1st Team Pursuit Track World Cup USA; 1st Teams Pursuit Oceania Intl Grand Prix AUS; 1st Points Race Australian Titles WA;
1998 1st Stage 8 Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic AUS;
1997 1st Teams Pursuit World Junior Titles RSA; 1st Teams Pursuit U19 Australian Titles TAS;
1996 1st Olympic Sprint U19 Australian Titles WA;
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| Riders on Rabobank |
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Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano | Michael Boogerd | Jan Boven | Graeme Brown | Thomas Dekker | Theo Eltink | Juan Antonio Flecha | Rick Flens | Óscar Freire | Robert Gesink | Bram de Groot | Mathew Hayman | Pedro Horrillo | Dmitri Kozontchuk | Sebastian Langeveld | Gerben Löwik | Marc de Maar | Denis Menchov | Koos Moerenhout | Grischa Niermann | Joost Posthuma | Michael Rasmussen | Kai Reus | Leon van Bon | Max van Heeswijk | Thorwald Veneberg | William Walker | Pieter Weening |
| Manager |
| Theo de Rooij |
