Robert Crowe

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Robert Crowe

Rob Crowe riding in the TAC VicRoads 2003 road-safety ambassador cycling kit with 'hazard striping'
Personal information
Full name Robert Colville Crowe
Nationality Australia
Born (1968-11-19) 19 November 1968
Brisbane, Australia
Height 188 cm (74 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Medal record
Cycling
Paralympic Games
2004 Athens Men's Individual Pursuit Tandem B1–3
2004 Athens Men's 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.
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.

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Crowe, Robert Colville, OAM". It's an Honour. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Robert Crowe". Sports Reference. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Robert Crowe". St Kilda Cycling Club. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Modra battles his way to cycling gold". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 September 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2012.
  5. ↑ "Results for 2004 individual pursuit tandem". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  7. ↑ AIS Athletes at the Olympics. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
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