Cadel Evans

“Cycling like many sports is dependent on the natural environment for overall enjoyment, if we don’t take action immediately to do things like create sustainability plans, we are just not going to be able to have a safe cycling future”  Cadel Evans - Cycling


In 2007 Cadel Evans has been elevated to one of Australia’s most prominent sportsman after he became the highest ever placed Australian in the Tour de France when he finished second, and was the first Australian to win UCI ProTour. It’s with no surprise Evans will be a key member of the Australian Olympic team for Beijing and will strongly challenge for gold.

Evans began his International career with the Australian Institute of Sport MTB team and prior to that was an exceptional mountain biker, winning silver medals at the 1997 and 1999 MTB U23 World Championships, and bronze medals at the 1995 Junior World Road Cycling Time Trial Championships and Junior World Mountain Bike Championships.

Some of Cadel’s major achievements as a road cyclist include a stage win in the Austria Tour in 2001, a stage win of the Tour Down Under in 2002, 14^th place in the 2002 Giro d’Italia and was crowned the Commonwealth Games time trial Champion. He also had the overall win in the Austria Tour 2004, fifth in the Tour Germany in 2005 and first place in the Mountains Classification in the Tour Down Under 2006. In 2006 he was awarded Australian Cyclist of the Year, and is expected to pick the award up again in 2007 which is awarded in December.