Aaron Gate

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Aaron Gate
UCI Track World Championships 2020 064.jpg
Gate in 2020
Personal information
Born (1990-11-26) 26 November 1990 (age 30)
Auckland, New Zealand
Height1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Current teamBlack Spoke Pro Cycling
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Professional teams
2013–2016An Post–Chain Reaction
2017–2018Aqua Blue Sport[1]
2019EvoPro Racing
2020–Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy[2]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (2021)
Medal record

Aaron Gate (born 26 November 1990)[3] is a New Zealand road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Black Spoke Pro Cycling.[4] He represented his country in track cycling at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics.

Career[]

He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit event with teammates Sam Bewley, Marc Ryan, Jesse Sergent and Westley Gough.[5] On 24 February 2013 in Belarus, Gate won the world championship title in the omnium event. Alongside Pieter Bulling, Regan Gough, and Dylan Kennett, he came fourth in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics, being beaten by Denmark to the bronze medal.[6] He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[7] In 2021 he won his first national title winning the Time trial by 0.7 seconds to George Bennett.[8]

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Gate competed in the team pursuit event with teammates Regan Gough, Jordan Kerby and Campbell Stewart. In the bronze medal race against Australia, he crashed after clipping Kerby's rear wheel, fracturing his collarbone. He subsequently withdrew from the rest of the Games, and was replaced by Stewart in the madison and omnium events.[9]

Major results[]

2012
1st Stage 5 Tour of Wellington
3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2013
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
2014
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2015
An Post Rás
1st Stages 2 & 5
2016
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stage 5
1st Stage 6 An Post Rás
2017
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
2018
1st Jersey white dots on red.svg Mountains classification Tour of Austria
2019
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 1 Belgrade–Banja Luka
5th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
9th Antwerp Port Epic
2020
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stage 1(TTT), 6 & 7
2nd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Stage 1
2021
1st MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Gravel and Tar Classic
3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour 2017
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia —
A yellow jersey Tour de France —
A red jersey Vuelta a España 140
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References[]

  1. ^ "2018 rider roster and first races confirmed". Aqua Blue Sport. Aqua Blue Sport Limited. 1 January 2018. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Aaron Gate". London2012.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  4. ^ "Black Spoke Pro Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ Devlin, Colette (6 August 2012). "Pursuit team won a medal for Mark". The Southland Times.
  6. ^ Geenty, Mark (13 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Odd shaped track stymies New Zealand pursuit team". Stuff. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  7. ^ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  8. ^ "NZ ITT 2021". my1.raceresult. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  9. ^ "New Zealand track cyclist Aaron Gate ruled out of Tokyo Olympics after crash". Stuff. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.

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