| updated = 20 December 2007 }} Graeme Allen Brown OAM (born 9 April 1979 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is a professional cyclist from Australia, who started cycling in 1995 at seventeen years of age.

He is a member of Rabobank, which is a professional cycling team on the UCI ProTour, and also of the St George Cycling Club. He lives in Menai, an outer suburb of Sydney.He is married to former Australian women's cycling representative Hayley Rutherford.

His greatest success as a road cyclist has been in the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, including a record breaking 5 stage wins in 2005 and winning the Points Classification in 2003 and 2005. His ambition is to be a stage winner of the Tour de France and wear the yellow and green jersey in the Tour de France.

As a track cyclist he has met with a great deal of success in both individual and team events. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Bradley McGee, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record breaking time of 3:58.233. He also won a gold medal with Stuart O'Grady for the Madison event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester he won two gold medals: for the Team pursuit, and the Scratch Race.

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include NSW cyclist of the year.

Career highlights

1996

1st Olympic Sprint U19 Australian Titles1997

1st Teams Pursuit World Junior Titles

1st Teams Pursuit U19 Australian Titles1998

1st Stage 8 Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic1999

1st Team Pursuit Track World Cup

1st Teams Pursuit Oceania Intl Grand Prix

1st Points Race Australian Titles2000

1st Madison Track World Cup

1st Teams Pursuit Australian Titles 2001

1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 6 Giro delle Regioni

1st Stage 6 Tour of Japan2002

1st Teams Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games

1st Scratch Race 2002 Commonwealth Games

1st Points Race Track World Cup

Tour de Langkawi:

Winner stages 6 and 102003

1st Team Pursuit World Titles

1st Stage 6 Tour Down Under

Tour de Langkawi:

Winner stages 5 and 7

Winner Points Classification

1st Points classification Perth Criterium Series

1st Australian Madison Titles (with Mark Renshaw)2004

1st Olympic Team Pursuit

1st Olympic Madison (with Stuart O'Grady)2005

Tour de Langkawi:

Winner stages 1, 5, 7, 9 and 10

Winner Points Classification2006

1st Stage 4 2006 Deutschland Tour from Heidenheim to Bad Tölz

1st Stage 8 2006 Deutschland Tour from Bad Krozingen to Karlsruhe2007

1st Stage 1 Tour of California

1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia

1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne2008

1st Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia

External links

• Official website for Graeme Brown
• Australian Cycling Federation Profile