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Full name | Wesley Sulzberger | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Wes | ||||||||||||||
Born | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | 20 October 1986||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
2006–2008 | Southaustralia.com–AIS | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2009–2011 | Française des Jeux | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | GreenEDGE | ||||||||||||||
2014 | Drapac Professional Cycling | ||||||||||||||
2015 | Navitas Satalyst Racing team | ||||||||||||||
2016 | Kinan Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
National Under-23 Road Race Championships (2007) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wesley Sulzberger (born 20 October 1986) is an Australian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally from 2009 to 2016.
Born in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Sulzberger started cycling with the West Tamar Cycling Club. He began his career with the Australian Continental Team Southaustralia.com–AIS and later joined Française des Jeux. After three years with the team, Sulzberger moved to the GreenEDGE team for the 2012 season. [1] He remained with the team until the end of the 2013 season, when he joined Drapac Professional Cycling for the 2014 season; he joined his brother Bernard Sulzberger, on the squad. Since 2017 working as Sr Country Manager Australian & New Zealand for Zwift, 2022 studying part time as an MBA candidate University of Queensland. [2]
Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour de France | — | 151 | — | — | — |
Vuelta a España | 117 | — | — | 145 | DNF |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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