Gary Neiwand

Gary Malcolm Neiwand ( born September 4, 1966 in Melbourne ) is an Australian former racing cyclist, two time world champion and multiple medalist at the Olympic Games.

Career

From the late 1980s until his retirement in late 2002 was Gary Neiwand due to its enormous departure rate as one of the greatest talents in Australia's track sprint and keirin in. Several times he won at the Commonwealth Games gold medal in his supreme discipline.

His first bronze medal in Seoul in 1988 could Neiwand win at the 1988 Olympics in the sprint. Over the years, followed by two silver medals (1992) and a bronze medal in the team sprint. He was also a world champion in track sprint.

After retiring from active racing Gary Neiwand made ​​several comeback attempts, however, were zunichtegemacht of alcohol and depression.

Imprisonment due to stalking

In February 2006 Neiwand was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, as he had, despite a court order his ex- wife, with whom he has two children, approached. On August 29, 2006, he was sentenced in Sydney for molesting his ex-girlfriend Amanda Lamont, whose mother, boss and his staff, as well as for theft to 18 months in prison. The presiding judge Ian Gray certified Neiwand overt depression disorders after the end of his athletic career, but could not excuse that person's stalking through terror calls with partly stolen mobile phones. His defense led his depression returned to his separation from his ex-wife in 2005. After nine months in prison he was released early in 2007 and continued since then and for a generally comprehensible representation of the depression issue.

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