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Nick Gates
Key Stats
Team: Silence-Lotto
Nationality: Australian
Born: March 10, 1972
Hometown: Sidney, Australia
Height: 6-foot
Weight: 156 pounds
Strengths: Sprinting, lead-outs
Turned Pro: 1997
Palmares
Career Highlights:
1st, Australian National Championships 1997, 1996
2000
Stage win, Tour of Saxony
1999
Stage win, Tour of Japan
1997
1st, Australian National Championships
2 stage wins, GP de Beuce
1st, Commonwealth Bank Classic
1st, Tour de Tasmania
1996
1st, Australian National Championships
1st, Commonwealth Bank Classic
Biography
Nick Gates is a two-time Australian national road champion and a dependable lead-out man for sprinter Robbie Mc Ewen. Though Gates has selflessly sacrificed himself for his teammates, he has still managed to earn his share of wins at the Tour of Japon, the GP de Beauce and the Tour of Tasmania.