# Bradley McGee

Bradley John McGee OAM (born 24 February 1976) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS). He started cycling in 1986 at the age of ten. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France.

## Career

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. 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.
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
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.

## Major results
### Track
#### 1993

    1st Individual pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships
    National Junior Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Teams pursuit

#### 1994

    Commonwealth Games
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
    UCI Junior Track World Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
    National Junior Track Championships
       1st Elimination race
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Scratch race
       1st Team pursuit

#### 1995

    1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit

#### 1996

    Olympic Games
       3rd Individual pursuit
       3rd Team pursuit

#### 1997

    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
    1st Individual pursuit – Quartu Sant'Elena, UCI Track World Cup Classics

#### 1998

    Commonwealth Games
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit

#### 1999

    Oceania International Grand Prix
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit

#### 2000

    3rd Individual pursuit, Olympic Games

#### 2002

    1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
    1st Individual pursuit, Commonwealth Games

#### 2004

    Olympic Games
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Individual pursuit
    1st Individual pursuit – Manchester, UCI Track World Cup Classics

#### 2007

    3rd Individual pursuit – Manchester, UCI Track World Cup Classics

#### 2008

    1st Team pursuit – Los Angeles, UCI Track World Cup Classics
    3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

### Road
#### 1993

    1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships

#### 1996

    1st Stage 2 Tour of Cologne

#### 1998

    9th Chrono des Nations

#### 1999

    Tour de l'Avenir
       1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 10
    1st Prologue Tour de Normandie
    8th Overall Tour de Wallonie

#### 2000

    1st Stage 5 Herald Sun Tour

#### 2001

    1st Stage 4 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    1st Stage 2b (ITT) Route du Sud
    4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
    7th Paris–Camembert
    10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Jacky Durand)

#### 2002

    1st Stage 7 Tour de France
    Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
       1st Points classification
       1st Prologue
    2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
    2nd Overall GP Erik Breukink
    10th Overall Critérium International
    10th Tour de Vendée

#### 2003

    Tour de France
       1st Prologue
       Held after Stages 1–3
    1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tour de Suisse
    2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
       1st Stage 6
    3rd Overall Tour de Picardie
    5th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Baden Cooke)
    6th Grand Prix du Morbihan
    8th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
    8th Grand Prix de Rennes

#### 2004

    1st Overall Route du Sud
       1st Stage 3 (ITT)
    8th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Prologue
       Held after Stages 1 & 3–4
    8th Grand Prix des Nations
    9th Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Prologue

#### 2005

    1st Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts
    8th Overall Tour de Suisse
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 3
    Vuelta a España
       Held after Stages 1–4

#### 2006

    8th Overall La Méditerranéenne

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| Giro d'Italia | 127 | — | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | DNF |
| Tour de France | — | 83 | 109 | 133 | — | 105 | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | DNF | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |