 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Nick Yallouris | ||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||
| Born | 24 February 1994 [1] Gosford, New South Wales [1] | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Cycling | |||||||||||||
| Club | Central Coast | |||||||||||||
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Nick Yallouris (born 24 February 1994) is an Australian track cyclist. [2] [3] He represented Australia in the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a sighted pilot for Australian cycling Paralympian, Matthew Formston. [3]
Yallouris was born on 24 February 1974 in Gosford, New South Wales. [3] Yallouris currently resides in Chittaway Point on the NSW Central Coast. [3] He is a Bicycle mechanic by trade. [3]
Yallouris has had a passion for bicycles since a young age. [3] He is from a BMX background and was introduced to track cycling in 2010. [3] In 2015, he won the madison and came third in the elite scratch race and elite time trial at the 2015 Australian National Track Championships. [2] Yallouris was then selected to join the Australian Paralympic Cycling Team. [4] His debut for Australia in the Para-cycling team was at the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in the Netherlands where he paired up with Commonwealth Games medallist Paul Kennedy. They finished sixth with a time of (1:04.274). At the Rio Paralympics, Yallouris will be the pilot for Formston. They train up to 13 times per week. [3]
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