SIMON GERRANS
Date of birth: 16/05/1980
From: Jamieson, Australia
Team: Orica-GreenEdge
Previous teams: Sky (2010-2011); Cervélo Test Team (2009); Credit Agricole (2008); Ag2r Prevoyance (2005-2007)
Simon Gerrans career profile
Simon Gerrans is an Australian hilly Classics specialist and an increasingly adept all-rounder capable of winning races an every type of terrain.
Turning professional with the Ag2r team in 2005, the Australian won two major European races in his debut season, Tour du Finistere and the GP Industria e Commercio, quickly making a name for himself.
A move to Crédit Agricole followed, after a string of wins including an overall win at the Tour Down Under, for what proved to be a highly successful year.
A stage win at Prato Nevoso was Gerrans' crowning achievement, in which he demonstrated his tactical nous, riding within himself against better climbers before out-sprinting them at the finish.
Moving to Cervélo in 2009, Gerrans won another mountain stage, this time in the Giro d'Italia, although bizarrely, this performance did not merit him a ride in the Tour de France. A major Classic win at the GP Ouest France Plouay topped yet another fine year for the Australian.
After two relatively lean years at the British-based Team Sky from 2010 to 2011, Gerrans jumped ship to Australian outfit GreenEdge for 2012 and immediately won the season's first WorldTour race, the Tour Down Under, followed by Milan-San Remo. Gerrans then went on to claim the Australian outfit's first Tour de France win in 2013, taking stage three ahead of Peter Sagan on Corsica.
A solid 2014 campaign saw him win the Tour Down Under, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the two Canadian WorldTour races. However, 2015 was a torrid season for Gerrans marked by a series of crashes, injuries and race withdrawals.
In 2016, Gerrans bounced back to take a fourth victory in the Tour Down Under.
Simon Gerrans results
2016
Tour Down Under; stage three
Tour Down Under; stage four
Tour Down Under; overall
Tour Down Under; sprint classification
2014
National road race champion
Tour Down Under; stage one
Tour Down Under; overall
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal
2013
Tour Down Under; stage five
Volta a Catalunya; stage six
Tour of the Basque Country; stage one
Tour de France; stage three
2012
Tour Down Under; overall
Milan-San Remo
Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec
National road race champion
2011
Jayco Bay Cycling Classic; sprint classification
Tour of Denmark; overall
2009
Giro d'Italia; stage 14
Vuelta a Espana; stage ten
Jayco Bay Cycling Classic; stage one
GP Ouest France Plouay
2008
Tour de France; stage 15
Criterium International; stage two
Criterium International; king of the mountains
Route du Sud; stage one
Route du Sud; intermediate sprint jersey
2007
GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
2006
Tour Down Under; stage one
Tour Down Under; overall
Herald Sun Tour; overall
2005
Herald Sun Tour; stage three
Herald Sun Tour; overall
Tour du Finistere
GP Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnahese
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