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Stuart O'Grady

Key Stats

Team: Saxo Bank
Nationality: Australian
Born: August 6, 1973
Hometown: Adelaide, South Australia
Residence: Unley Park, South Australia
Height: 5-foot-9
Weight: 161 pounds
Strengths: classics, sprinting
Turned Pro: 1995

Palmares

Career Highlights:

1st, Paris-Roubaix 2007
1st, world team pursuit championship 1995
2nd, Tour de France points competition 2006
1st, stage 5, Tour de France 2004
Australian road champion 2003

2008
5th, Paris-Roubaix
6th, stages 1, 3 and 5, Tour Down Under
8th, stage 4, Tour Down Under
10th overall, Tour Down Under

2007
1st, Paris-Roubaix
3rd, Dwars door Vlaanderen
4th, Milan-Torino
5th, Milan-San Remo
5th overall, Tour of California
5th, Omloop Het Volk
9th, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
10th, Bayern Rundfahrt
10th, Tour of Flanders

2006
2nd, Post Danmark Rundt
2nd, Züri Metzgete
3rd, Paris-Bourges
3rd overall, Paris-Tours
3rd, stage 3, Vuelta a España
3rd, stage 20, Tour de France
6th, world championship

2005
2nd, points competition, Tour de France
2nd, stage 13, Tour de France
2nd, Volta a Algarve
3rd overall, Tour Down Under
3rd, stage 3, Tour de France
4th, Milan-San Remo
10th, Ghent-Wevelgem

2004
1st, HEW Cyclassics Cup
1st, Go de Villers Cotterets
1st, points competition, Dauphiné Libéré
1st, stage 5, Tour de France
1st, stage 5, Dauphiné Libéré
1st, stage 7, Dauphiné Libéré
1st, stage 1, Danmark Rundt
2nd, stage 3, Vuelta a Espana
2nd, stage 10, Vuelta a Espana
2nd, stage 6, Tour de France
3rd, Danmark Rundt
3rd, stage 9, Tour de France
3rd, stage 6, Vuelta a Espana
3rd, stage 11, Vuelta a Espana
3rd, Milan-San Remo
4th, world championship
4th, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
5th overall, Paris-Tours
5th Tirreno-Adriatico

2003
1st, Australian Championship
1st, stage 6, Tour de Langkawi
1st, stage 8, Tour de Langkawi
3rd overall, Paris-Tours
3rd, Tour of Flanders
4th, Tro Bro Léon

2002
2nd, GP Plouay
3rd, points competition, Tour de France

2001
1st overall, Tour Down Under
2nd, points competition, Tour de France
2nd, stage 19, Tour de France
2nd, Postgirot Open
3rd, stage 20, Tour de France

2000
1st, Melbourne-Sorrento
1st, stage 3, Midi Libre
2nd, stage 2, Tour de France
2nd overall, Tour Down Under
5th, GP Cholet

1999
1st, Haribo Classic
1st overall, Tour Down Under
1st, stage 3, Tour Down Under
1st, stage 5, Tour Down Under
1st, stage 5, Prutour
2nd, points competition, Tour de France
2nd, stage 7, Tour de France
2nd, Australian championship
3rd, stage 3, Tour de France
3rd, stage 4, Tour de France

1998
1st, Prudential Tour
1st, stage 14, Tour de France
1st, stage 2, Tour de Luxembourg
1st, stage 5, Tour du Poitou-Charentes
1st, stage 2, Prudential Tour
1st, stage 7, Prudential Tour
2nd, GP Haribo
2nd, points competition, Tour de France
3rd, stage 18, Tour de France
3rd, stage 21, Tour de France
4th, GP Eddy Merckx
4th overall, Tour de Luxembourg
6th, Omloop Het Volk
10th, Four Days of Dunkirk

1997
1st, points competition, Setmana Catalana
1st, stage 1, Herald Sun Tour
1st, stage 6, Herald Sun Tour
1st, stage 8, Herald Sun Tour
1st, stage 5, Bayern Rundfahrt
2nd, stage 5, Tour de France
7th, Ghent-Wevelgem

1996
1st, stage 3, Vuelta a Murcia

1995
1st, world championship, team pursuit
3rd, world championship, pursuit
7th overall, Tour de Luxembourg