Wesley Sulzberger
![]() Sulzberger at the 2009 Tour Down Under. | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Wesley Sulzberger | |||||||||||||
Nickname | Wez | |||||||||||||
Born | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | 20 October 1986|||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
Amateur team | ||||||||||||||
2006–2008 | Southaustralia.com-AIS | |||||||||||||
Professional teams | ||||||||||||||
2009–2011 | Française des Jeux | |||||||||||||
2012–2013 | GreenEDGE | |||||||||||||
2014 | Drapac Professional Cycling | |||||||||||||
2015 | Navitas Satalyst Racing team | |||||||||||||
2016 | Kinan Cycling Team | |||||||||||||
Major wins | ||||||||||||||
National Under-23 Road Race Championships (2007) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
- 2nd
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 |
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— | — | — | — | — |
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— | 151 | — | — | — |
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117 | — | — | 145 | DNF |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References[]
- ^ "Wesley Sulzberger to link up with GreenEdge in 2012". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "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
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Australian male cyclists
- Cyclists from Tasmania
- Sportspeople from Launceston, Tasmania