Graeme Brown

Personal information
Full name	Graeme Allen Brown
Date of birth	9 April 1979 (1979-04-09) (age 29)
Country	Australia
Team information
Discipline	Road & Track
Role	Rider
Amateur team(s)
	St George Cycling Club
Professional team(s)
	Rabobank
Medal record Competitor for  Australia Track cycling Olympic Games Gold Athens 2004 4000m Team Pursuit Gold Athens 2004 Madison
Infobox last updated on:
20 December 2007

Graeme Allen Brown OAM (born 9 April 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, 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.He is married to former Australian women's cycling representative Hayley Rutherford.

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 Team 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.

Career highlights

External links

• Official website for Graeme Brown
• Australian Cycling Federation Profile
• Palmarès at Trap-Friis.dk