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Graeme Brown

Key Stats

Team: Rabobank
Nationality: Australian
Born: April 9, 1979
Hometown: Menai, Australia
Residence: Smeermaas, Belgium
Height: 5-foot-9
Weight: 172 pounds
Strengths: Sprinting, flat stages

Palmares

Career Highlights:

1st, Olympic team pursuit 2004
1st, Olympic Madison 2004
1st, Tour de Langkawi Points Classification 2003 and 2005
1st, Commonwealth Games team pursuit, scratch race 2002

2008
2nd, stage 1, Mallorca Challenge
2nd, stage 2, Tour Down Under
3rd, stages 1 and 6, Tour Down Under
7th, stage 4, Tour Down Under

2007
1st, stage 1 Tour of California
1st, stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia
1st, stage 2 Tour de Pologne

2006
1st, stage 4 Tour of Germany
1st, stage 8 Tour of Germany

2005
1st, stage 1 Tour de Langkawi
1st, stage 5 Tour de Langkawi
1st, stage 7 Tour de Langkawi
1st, stage 9 Tour de Langkawi
1st, stage 10 Tour de Langkawi
1st, points classification Tour de Langkawi

2004
1st, Olympic team pursuit
1st, Olympic madison

Editor's Notes: Brown teamed up with Stuart O'Grady for Olympic gold in 2004 in the Madison and with Bradley McGee, Brett Lancaster and Luke Roberts for the team pursuit.

Biography

Brown got his start as a BMX racer as a child and quickly transferred to the track after winning 12 Australian and three world BMX titles. His first major success on the road came at the 1997 world junior cycling championships, which he won. Brown has evolved into one of the fastest sprinters in the ProTour peloton.