Stuart O'Grady

Stuart Peter O'Grady (Adelaide, August 6, 1973) is an Australian athlete who competed in cycling in the modalities of track, specialist in pursuit, scoring and madison tests., and route, belonging to the Australian GreenEDGE team between 2012 and 2013.

He participated in six Summer Olympic Games, between 1992 and 2012, obtaining a total of four medals: silver in Barcelona 1992, in team pursuit (together with Brett Aitken, Stephen McGlede and Shaun O'Brien), two bronzes in Atlanta 1996, in scoring and team pursuit (with Bradley McGee, Timothy O'Shannessey and Dean Woods), and a gold in Athens 2004, in the madison trial (along with Graeme Brown).

He won five medals at the Track Cycling World Championships between 1991 and 1995.

On the road, his best results were four stage victories in the Tour de France (in the 1998 and 2004 editions and in the team time trials of 2001 and 2013) and two stages of the 2004 Vuelta a España (the time trials by teams of 2006 and 2011).

On July 23, 2013, he announced his retirement from cycling after 19 years as a professional, and having ridden uninterruptedly in the Tour de France for 17 years. In addition, one day after announcing his retirement, he confessed to having doped during the 1990s era. After having confessed, his name appeared in the French senate report as one of the thirty cyclists who would have tested positive in the 1998 Tour de France retrospectively.

Since January 2020 he is the Tour Down Under race director.

International medal table

Olympic Games
Year	Place	Medalla	Competition
1992	Barcelona (SpainSpain)	02!	Team persecution
1996	AtlantaUnited States of America	03!	Team persecution
1996	AtlantaUnited States of America	03!	Score
2004	Athens (GreeceGreece)	01!	Madison
World Championship
Year	Place	Medalla	Competition
1991	Stuttgart (GermanyGermany)	03!	Team persecution (A)
1993	Hamar (Norway Norway)	01!	Team persecution
1994	PalermoItalyItaly)	03!	Team persecution
1995	BogotáColombiaColombia)	01!	Team persecution
1995	BogotáColombiaColombia)	03!	Individual persecution

Honours of Prizes

Hint

Olympics

• Barcelona 1992
  • Team persecution
• Atlanta 1996
  • Team persecution
  • Race by points
• Athens
  • Madison

World Championships

• Palermo 1994
  • Team persecution
• Bogotá 1995
  • Team persecution
  • Individual persecution

Road

Results in Grand Tours and World Championships

Race		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
	Giro de Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ab.	-	-	Ab.	-	-	-	-	-
	Tour de France	-	-	109.o	54.	94.o	Ab.	54.	77.o	90.o	61.	77.o	89.o	Ab.	106.o	124.o	149.o	78.o	97. or	161.o
	Return to Spain	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ab.	-	65.o	-	-	Ab.	Ab.	93.o	-	-
World on Route		-	-	-	-	-	101.o	-	13.	-	4.o	-	6.o	-	-	Ab.	45.	91.o	-	-

—: does not participate
Ab.: abandonment

Teams

O'Grady in the presentation of the Tour de France 2010.

• Gan/Crédit Agricole (1995-2003)
• Cofidis (2004-2005)
• Team CSC/Team Saxo Bank (2006-2010)
  • Team CSC (2006-2008) (until June)
  • Team CSC-Saxo Bank (2008)
  • Team Saxo Bank (2009-2010)
• Leopard Trek (2011)
• Orica-GreenEDGE (2012-2013)