Brett Aitken
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| Born | 25 January 1971 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia[1] |
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| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brett Aitken (born 25 January 1971) is an Australian Olympic track cyclist.[3] He has won three Olympic medals,[4] including gold in the Madison event at the 2000 Olympics.[5] He retired from cycling in 2004, but returned in 2006 to ride on the Oceania Tour.[5] On 16 January 2001, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his gold medal winning achievement.[6]
Aitken was born in Adelaide and was affiliated with the Adelaide Cycling Club.[2] He was also an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[7]
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- ↑ Athlete Biography, AOC
- ↑ Olympic Games, ABC
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jones, Jeff & Stevenson, John (2006) "Olympic gold medalist Aitken returns to cycling", CyclingNews.com, 18 February 2006, retrieved 24 January 2010
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ AIS Cycling Achievements
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