Nick Gates

Nick Gates
Personal information
Gates in 2007
Full name	Nick Gates
Born	(1972-03-10) 10 March 1972 Sydney, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Domestic
Professional team(s)
1996	Giant-Australian Institute of Sport
1997	ZVVZ-Giant-Australian Institute of Sport
1998-1999	Die Continentale-Olympia
2000	Team Hohenfelder-Concorde
2001	Agro-Adler-Brandenburg
2002	Team Wiesenhof
2003–2004	Lotto-Domo
2005–2008	Predictor-Lotto
Major wins
Australian National Road Race Champion (1996) Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic (1996)
Infobox last updated on 31 January 2009

Nick Gates (born 10 March 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer.

In 1996 Gates won the Commonwealth Bank Classic^[1] and the Australian national road race title.^[2]

Gates twice competed in the Tour de France, riding for the Lotto-Domo team, but failed to finish either event, pulling out after the 15th stage in 2003^[3] and after the first stage in 2004.^[4]

His career ended with a fairytale victory in his self-named event, the Nick Gates Classic, in Townsville in 2008, where he won with the assistance of long-time teammate, Robbie McEwen.^[5]

Palmares

1996

1st

National Road Race Champion

1st

Overall Commonwealth Bank Classic

1997

1st Stage 1 Tour of Tasmania

1998

1st Stage 12 Commonwealth Bank Classic

1999

3rd Overall Tour of Japen

1st Stage 3

2000

1st Harsewinkel

2001

1st 1st Gold Coast-Nerang

1st Neuss

2004

1st Burleigh

2006

1st Surfers Paradise

2007

1st Stage 1 part b TTT Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale Coppi-Bartali

2008

1st Nick Gates Classic

Tour de France Results

2003 - DNF
2004 - DNF

References

↑ Career of toil ends at home for Gates
↑ "Nick Gates". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ Stage 16 Results, 2003 Tour de France
↑ Stage 2 Results, 2004 Tour de France
↑ closes career with fairytale in Townsville

External links

Nick Gates profile at Cycling Archives

Australian National Road Race Champions (men)

1900–1919	A Ralston (1901) HG O'Callaghan (1902) Jack Arnst, NZ (1903) Tom Larcombe (1904) William Hawley (1905) H Mehrtens, NZ (1906) Tom Larcombe (1907) M Chappell (1908) Iddo Munro (1909) Joe Pianta (1910) Phil O'Shea, NZ (1911)

1920–1939	Phil O'Shea (1922-1923) Hubert Opperman (1924) Harold Smith (1925) Hubert Opperman (1926–1927) Hubert Opperman (1929) Richard Lamb (1930) Matt Lynch (1931) Richard Lamb (1932) Hefty Stuart (1933) Clinton Beasley (1935) Alan Angus (1936-1937) Dean Toseland (1938-1939)

1940–1959	Keith Rowley (1947) Keith McFarlane (1948) Alby Saunders (1949) Keith Rowley (1950) John Beasley (1951) Neil Peadon (1952) Alby Saunders (1953) Eddie Smith (1954–1955) Russell Mockridge (1956–1958) Fred Roche (1959)

1960–1979	Fred Roche (1960) Neville Veale (1961) John O'Sullivan (1962) Warwick Dalton (1963) Barry Waddell (1964) Matt Martino (1965) Kerry Hoole (1966) Graeme Gilmore (1967) Barry Waddell (1968) Robert Whetters (1969) Graham McVilly (1970–1971) Kevin Spencer (1972) Kerry Hoole (1973) Graham Rowley (1974) Donald Wilson (1975) Peter Besanko (1976) Donald Wilson (1977) John Trevorrow (1978–1979)

1980–1999	John Trevorrow (1980) Clyde Sefton (1981) Wayne Hildred (1982) Terry Hammond (1983) Peter Besanko (1984) Laurie Venn (1985) Wayne Hildred (1986) Allan Dipple (1987) Paul Miller (1988) Gary Clively (1989) Damian McDonald (1990) Neil Stephens (1991) David McFarlane (1992) Eddy Salas (1993) Neil Stephens (1994) Robbie McEwen (1995) Nick Gates (1996) Jonathan Hall (1997) David McKenzie (1998) Henk Vogels (1999)

2000–2019	Jamie Drew (2000) Steve Williams (2001) Robbie McEwen (2002) Stuart O'Grady (2003) Matthew Wilson (2004) Robbie McEwen (2005) Russell Van Hout (2006) Darren Lapthorne (2007) Matthew Lloyd (2008) Peter McDonald (2009) Travis Meyer (2010) Jack Bobridge (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Luke Durbridge (2013) Simon Gerrans (2014) Heinrich Haussler (2015) Jack Bobridge (2016)

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