![]() Rob Crowe riding in the TAC VicRoads 2003 road-safety ambassador cycling kit with 'hazard striping' | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Robert Colville Crowe |
Nationality | Australian |
Born | Brisbane, Australia | 19 November 1968
Height | 188 cm (74 in) |
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
Medal record |
Robert Colville Crowe, OAM [1] (born 19 November 1968) [2] is an Australian Champion Cyclist who competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and as Kieran Modra's pilot in the 2004 Athens Paralympics. He also directs the popular indoor cycling engine-training school at Ridewiser in Melbourne, Australia.
Highlights of Crowe's career include dual Australian Road Race Championship wins in the 1991 Australian Men's Road Race and 1991 Australian Men's Individual Time Trial, his participation in the men's team time trial at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and also his participation as an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot. [2] [3] He piloted Kieran Modra in endurance events, most notably at the 2004 Athens Games. [4] At the games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Individual Pursuit Tandem B1–3 event, in which he and Kieran Modra set a new World Record (4:21.451), [5] and for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, [1] and then a bronze medal in the Men's Road Race / Time Trial Tandem B1–3 event. [6] He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship-holder training under road cycling coach Heiko Salzwedel during the 2-year training lead-up program in 1991 and 1992 before the Barcelona Olympic Games. [7] He was also part of the team Giant–Australian Institute of Sport.
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