caption fullname updated proteam birth_place weight majorwins height discipline birth_date proyears role image article_title name
gates in 2007 nick gates 31 january 2009 giant-australian continentale-olympia team hohenfelder-concorde agro-adler-brandenburg team wiesenhof lotto-domo predictor-lotto institute of sport zvvz-giant-australian institute of sport die sydney , australia 71 kg lb on australian bank cycle classic -lrb- 1996 -rrb- national road race champion -lrb- 1996 -rrb- commonwealth 1.83 m ftin 0 on road 10 march 1972 1996 ; 2004 2005 & ndash ; 2008 1997 1998-1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 & ndash domestic nick gates 2007 bay cycling classic 1.jpg nick gates
 nick gates
nick gates

nick gates -lrb- born 10 march 1972 in sydney -rrb- is an australian professional road bicycle racer .
in 1996 gates won the commonwealth bank classic and the australian national road race title .
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 and after the first stage in 2004 .
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 .
