Aaron Gate (born 26 November 1990) is a New Zealand road and track cyclist,[4] who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Burgos BH.[5] He represented his country in track cycling at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Gate is the first New Zealand athlete to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games.[6]
Career
editHe 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.[7] 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.[8] He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[9] In 2021 he won his first national title winning the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships by 0.7 seconds ahead of George Bennett.[10]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Gate competed in the team pursuit event with teammates Regan Gough, Jordan Kerby and Campbell Stewart. In the bronze medal race against Australia, he crashed after clipping Kerby's rear wheel, fracturing his collarbone. He subsequently withdrew from the rest of the Games, and was replaced by Stewart in the madison and omnium events.[11]
In 2022, at the age of 31, Gate became a quadruple Commonwealth champion when taking gold in the individual pursuit, team pursuit and points race on the track as well as the road race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[12][13][14][15][16]
Major results
editRoad
edit- 2011
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of the Murray River
- 6th Overall Rás Tailteann
- 10th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt U23
- 2012
- 7th Overall Tour of Wellington
- 1st Stage 5
- 2013
- 10th Halle–Ingooigem
- 2015
- 4th Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic
- 5th Overall Rás Tailteann
- 1st
Sprints classification - 1st Stages 2 & 5
- 1st
- 6th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
- 6th Ronde van Overijssel
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Tour of Southland
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge
- 6th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
- 6th Overall Rás Tailteann
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 6
- 1st
- 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
- 1st Overall Tour of Southland
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT), 6 & 7
- 2nd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
- 1st Stage 1
- 4th Road race, National Championships
- 2021
- 1st
Time trial, National Championships - 1st Gravel and Tar Classic
- 3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
- 4th Chrono des Nations
- 10th Lillehammer GP
- 2022
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Road race - 4th Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Time trial, Oceania Championships - 1st
Overall International Tour of Hellas
- 1st Stage 1
- 4th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
- 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 3
- 10th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Polynormande
- 2023
- 1st Time trial, National Championships
- 2nd Overall International Tour of Hellas
- 1st Prologue
- 2024
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
- 1st Stages 1, 3, 4 & 5
- 4th Overall Tour de Taiwan
- 6th Gravel and Tar Classic
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 2017 |
|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— |
| Tour de France
|
— |
 Vuelta a España
|
140 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Track
edit- 2008
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships - 2009
- Oceania Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit - 3rd
Madison (with Myron Simpson)
- 2nd
- 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Pekin
- 2010
- Oceania Championships
- 2nd Madison (with Myron Simpson)
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 3rd Omnium
- 2nd
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Madison, Melbourne (with Myron Simpson)
- 2nd Team pursuit, Manchester
- 2011
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Points race
- 1st
- UCI World Cup
- 1st Team pursuit, Cali
- 3rd Team pursuit, London
- 2012
- 1st
Scratch, National Championships - 3rd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games - 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 2013
- 1st
Omnium, UCI World Championships - Oceania Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Omnium
- 3rd Madison (with Marc Ryan)
- 1st
- National Championships
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Myron Simpson)
- 1st
- 3rd Omnium, UCI World Cup, Manchester
- 2014
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Points race
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 3rd Omnium
- 1st
- 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
- 3rd
Points race, Commonwealth Games - 2015
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Omnium
- 1st
- 1st Omnium, National Championships
- 2016
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Points race
- 1st
- 1st Points race, National Championships
- 2017
- 2nd
Omnium, UCI World Championships - 2018
- 1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Cambridge (with Campbell Stewart)
- 2019
- UCI World Cup
- 1st Omnium, Brisbane
- 1st Madison, Cambridge (with Campbell Stewart)
- 2nd Madison, Brisbane (with Tom Sexton)
- 3rd Team pursuit, Cambridge
- 2020
- National Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Campbell Stewart)
- 1st
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd Madison (with Campbell Stewart)
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2nd
- 2021
- National Championships
- 1st Points race
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2nd Omnium, UCI World Championships
- UCI Champions League
- 2nd Elimination race, Panevėžys
- 2nd Elimination race, London
- 2022
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 1st
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Madison (with Tom Sexton)
- 1st
- 3rd Omnium, UCI World Championships
- 2023
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Points race - 3rd Madison (with Campbell Stewart)
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 1st
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Black Spoke Pro Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ "Aaron Gate". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "Aaron Gate". UCI.org. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ "Four gold medals! Cycling star makes NZ history with 'astonishing' win". NZ Herald. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ Devlin, Colette (6 August 2012). "Pursuit team won a medal for Mark". The Southland Times.
- ^ Geenty, Mark (13 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Odd shaped track stymies New Zealand pursuit team". Stuff. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ^ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "NZ ITT 2021". my1.raceresult. Archived from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ "New Zealand track cyclist Aaron Gate ruled out of Tokyo Olympics after crash". Stuff. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
- ^ "Men's 4000m Team Pursuit Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
- ^ "Men's 40km Points Race Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games 2022: New Zealand cyclists claim more medals on the track". NZ Herald. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ Benson, Daniel (7 August 2022). "Commonwealth Games: Aaron Gate shocks WorldTour opposition to win thrilling men's road race". VeloNews. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
External links
edit
- Aaron Gate at UCI
- Aaron Gate at Cycling Archives
- Aaron Gate at ProCyclingStats
- Aaron Gate at Cycling Quotient
- Aaron Gate at CycleBase
- Aaron Gate at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Aaron Gate at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
