Wesley Sulzberger

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Wesley Sulzberger
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Sulzberger at the 2009 Tour Down Under.
Personal information
Full nameWesley Sulzberger
NicknameWez
Born (1986-10-20) 20 October 1986 (age 35)
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur team
2006–2008Southaustralia.com-AIS
Professional teams
2009–2011Française des Jeux
2012–2013GreenEDGE
2014Drapac Professional Cycling
2015Navitas Satalyst Racing team
2016Kinan Cycling Team
Major wins
National Under-23 Road Race Championships (2007)
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Stuttgart Under-23 Men's Road Race

Wesley Sulzberger (born 20 October 1986) is an Australian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2016.

Career[]

Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Sulzberger started cycling with the West Tamar Cycling Club. He began his career with the Australian Continental Team Southaustralia.com-AIS cycling team 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.[2]

Major results[]

2006
1st Overall Tour of Gippsland
1st Stage 7
Tour of Tasmania
1st Stages 6, 10 & 11
1st Stage 1 Tour de Hokkaido
2007
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
2008
1st Stage 2 Tour of Japan
2009
1st Stage 2 Paris–Corrèze
5th Overall Tour Down Under
2010
1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
2011
8th Overall Tour of Turkey
8th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
2013
4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2014
10th Overall Tour de Taiwan
2016
1st Stage 3 Le Tour de Filipinas
1st Mountains classification Tour de Kumano

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia
A yellow jersey Tour de France 151
A red jersey Vuelta a España 117 145 DNF
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References[]

  1. ^ "Wesley Sulzberger to link up with GreenEdge in 2012". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Wesley Sulzberger joins Drapac Pro Cycling". Cyclingnews.com. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

External links[]

Media related to Wesley Sulzberger at Wikimedia Commons

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