Brett Aitken

World Champion - team pursuit   Olympic Champion - Madison

Brett Aitken ( born January 25, 1971 in Adelaide ) is an Australian former track and road racing cyclist.

Career

Brett Aitken won at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1990 and 1991 with the Australian national team bronze medals in the team pursuit. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, he won the silver medal. In 1993 he was then world champion in the team pursuit, and a year later he won his third bronze medal. In the 1996 Olympics he won bronze. In 2000, Aitken was Australian champion in scratch and Olympic champion in Madison with Scott McGrory.

On the street Aitken won two stages in the 1998 Geelong Bay Classic Series and so could the Appreciation decide for themselves. The same thing he succeeded in 2000. A year later, he was successful in the one-day races Colac Otway Classic and 2002, he won a stage of the Geelong Bay Classic Series and two stages at the Tour of Tasmania. In the 2003 season Aitken drove for the team Giant Asia Racing, where he won the Grampians Great Little Dessert Classic, a stage of the Geelong Bay Classic Series and three sections of the Tour of Sunraysia. 2006-2009 was Aitken at the Australian Continental team Savings & Loans under contract. In his first year there he won a stage in the Top End tour and he was successful on three sections of the Tour of the Murray River. In 2007 he won a stage there again and at the Tour of Tasmania. In the last year of his career, he won a stage of the Bay Cycling Classic.