Aaron Gate

Aaron Gate (born 26 November 1990)[2] is a New Zealand road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy.[3]

Aaron Gate
Gate in 2020
Personal information
Born (1990-11-26) 26 November 1990
Auckland, New Zealand
Height1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Current teamBlack Spoke Pro Cycling Academy
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Professional teams
2013–2016An Post–Chain Reaction
2017–2018Aqua Blue Sport[1]
2019EvoPro Racing
2020–Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy

He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit event with teammates Sam Bewley, Marc Ryan, Jesse Sergent and Westley Gough.[4] On 24 February 2013 in Belarus, Gate won the world championship title in the omnium event. Alongside Pieter Bulling, Regan Gough, and Dylan Kennett, he came fourth in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics, being beaten by Denmark to the bronze medal.[5] He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[6]

Major results
2012
1st Stage 5 Tour of Wellington
3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2013
1st Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
2014
3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2015
An Post Rás
1st Stages 2 & 5
2016
1st Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stage 5
1st Stage 6 An Post Rás
2017
2nd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
2018
1st Mountains classification Tour of Austria
2019
1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 1 Belgrade–Banja Luka
5th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
9th Antwerp Port Epic
2020
2nd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Stage 1

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2017
Giro d'Italia —
Tour de France —
Vuelta a España 140
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
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gollark: It's 1.2MB and writes it synchronously to my server's slow HDD.
gollark: I suspect the issue might be `linked_chats.json`.
gollark: There's no reason it should be this slow.
gollark: +<markov 10

References
  1. "2018 rider roster and first races confirmed". Aqua Blue Sport. Aqua Blue Sport Limited. 1 January 2018. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. "Aaron Gate". London2012.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  3. "Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  4. Devlin, Colette (6 August 2012). "Pursuit team won a medal for Mark". The Southland Times.
  5. Geenty, Mark (13 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Odd shaped track stymies New Zealand pursuit team". Stuff. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  6. "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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