Robert Crowe (cyclist)

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Robert Crowe
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Rob Crowe riding in the TAC VicRoads 2003 road-safety ambassador cycling kit with 'hazard striping'
Personal information
Full nameRobert Colville Crowe
NationalityAustralian
Born (1968-11-19) 19 November 1968 (age 56)
Brisbane, Australia
Height188 cm (74 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Medal record
Men's cycling
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Paralympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Athens Individual pursuit tandem B1–3
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2004 Athens Road race/time trial tandem B1–3
While riding with the Australian Olympic road team, Rob Crowe won the overall title 'yellow jersey' of the Ken Marshal International Amateur Tour of Austria in 1991. Tour of Austria 1991 crop 400px.jpg
While riding with the Australian Olympic road team, Rob Crowe won the overall title 'yellow jersey' of the Ken Marshal International Amateur Tour of Austria in 1991.
Athens 2004 Paralympic Games Velodrome - Rob Crowe winning the Gold Medal with Kieran Modra in the final of the Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit Tandem B1-3 BellLap 600px.jpg
Athens 2004 Paralympic Games Velodrome – Rob Crowe winning the Gold Medal with Kieran Modra in the final of the Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit Tandem B1-3

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.

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Cycling career highlights

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.

Major sporting and career achievements

Ridewiser business director Rob Crowe won the St Kilda Cycling Club Criterium Championships in Port Melbourne, 2009 VEEP9615.jpg
Ridewiser business director Rob Crowe won the St Kilda Cycling Club Criterium Championships in Port Melbourne, 2009

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References

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