Stuart O'Grady

Stuart O'Grady
OAM
O'Grady at the 2013 Down Under Classic
Personal information
Full nameStuart O'Grady
NicknameStuey
Born (1973-08-06) 6 August 1973
Adelaide, Australia
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad and track
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter/Classics specialist
Professional teams
1995–2003GAN
2004–2005Cofidis
2006–2010Team CSC
2011Leopard Trek
2012–2013GreenEDGE
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (1998, 2004)
2 TTT (2001, 2013)
Vuelta a España
2 TTT (2006, 2011)

Stage races

Tour Down Under (1999, 2001)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2003)
HEW Cyclassics (2004)
Paris–Roubaix (2007)
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Men's track cycling
Olympic Games
2004 AthensMadison
1992 Barcelona4000m Team Pursuit
1996 Atlanta4000m Team Pursuit
1996 AtlantaPoints Race
Commonwealth Games
1994 Victoria, BCTeam Pursuit
1994 Victoria, BC10 Miles Scratch
2002 ManchesterRoad Race
1994 Victoria, BCPoints Race
1998 Kuala LumpurIndividual Time Trial
1994 Victoria, BCIndividual Pursuit
World Championships
1993 HamarTeam Pursuit
1995 BogotáTeam Pursuit
1991 StuttgartTeam Pursuit
1994 PalermoTeam Pursuit
1995 BogotáIndividual Pursuit

Stuart O'Grady OAM (born 6 August 1973) is a retired Australian road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013. A former track cyclist, O'Grady and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in the Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics. O'Grady also won Paris–Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady competed in the Tour de France from 1997 and contended for the points classification in the Tour de France known as the green jersey, finishing second in the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 races. He wore the yellow jersey of general classification leader in 1998 and 2001.

With his participation in the 2013 Tour de France, he tied George Hincapie's record of 17 participations in the Tour de France. However, Hincapie was removed from three of his 17 starts for his part in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, and O'Grady himself admitted having been assisted by illicit erythropoietin (EPO) use at least on the 1998 Tour de France (the Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk holds the absolute records of completed Tours de France, with 16 from 1970 to 1986).

He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games." O'Grady is the current Race Director of the Tour Down Under.