Nick Gates (cyclist)

Nick Gates

Gates in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Nick Gates
Born	(1972-03-10) 10 March 1972 (age 52) Sydney, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Domestique
Professional team
1996–1997	Giant–Australian Institute of Sport
1998–1999	Die Continentale–Olympia
2000	Team Hohenfelder–Concorde
2001	Agro–Adler–Brandenburg
2002	Team Wiesenhof
2003–2008	Lotto–Domo
Major wins
Australian National Road Race Champion (1996) Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic (1996)

Nick Gates (born 10 March 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer.

In 1996 Gates won the Commonwealth Bank Classic^[1] and the Australian national road race title.^[2]

Gates twice competed in the Tour de France, riding for the Lotto-Domo team, but failed to finish either event, pulling out after the 15th stage in 2003^[3] and after the first stage in 2004.^[4]

His career ended with a fairytale victory in his self-named event, the Nick Gates Classic, in Townsville in 2008, where he won with the assistance of long-time teammate, Robbie McEwen.^[5]

• 2003 – DNF
• 2004 – DNF

• Nick Gates at Cycling Archives (archived)