Ryan Bayley

Ryan Bayley

Personal information
Full name	Ryan Bayley
Born	(1982-03-09) 9 March 1982 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight	90 kg (200 lb; 14 st)[1]
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
-	Team Toshiba
Major wins
Keirin, UCI Track Cycling World Championships Sprint, 2004 Summer Olympic Games, Athens Keirin, 2004 Summer Olympic Games, Athens
Medal record Representing  Australia Track cycling Olympic Games 2004 Athens Keirin 2004 Athens Sprint Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester Sprint 2002 Manchester Team Sprint 2006 Melbourne Keirin 2006 Melbourne Sprint World Championship 2001 Antwerpen Keirin 2001 Antwerpen Team Sprint 2002 Copenhagen Team Sprint 2004 Melbourne Sprint 2006 Bordeaux Team Sprint
Infobox last updated on 4 April 2008

Ryan Neville Bayley OAM (born 9 March 1982) is an Australian professional track cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist.

Biography

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Bayley started competitive cycling in 1997 at fifteen years of age. He is a member of the Albany Cycling Club and employed by the Australian Institute of Sport.

Bayley won gold medals for the Sprint and Team Sprint track cycling events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

His greatest success as a track cyclist came in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he won gold medals in the sprint and Keirin events.

Following Bayley's failure to win a medal at the World Cup round in Sydney in December 2007, he was criticized by Martin Barras, the national coach, for not developing his tactics. He was still employing the same final kick which achieved success in Athens, the opposition had learnt to attack early to counter this.^[2][3]

In February 2008, tension was brewing between Bayley and his rival for Olympic selection, Shane Perkins. Both were deemed by the judges to be riding improperly at the Australian National Track Championships. Bayley crashed when Perkins moved down on him during a race, burning a hole in the back of his skinsuit. The relationship between the two riders was given another dimension, when Perkins announced his engagement to Bayley's younger sister, Kristine Bayley.^[4]

Bayley was finally selected to ride at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as Perkins had not competed in any Team Sprint events.^[5][6] Bayley qualified in 12th place in the sprint event and eventually finished 11th, he was eliminated from the Keirin in the second round, placing 8th overall; he blamed himself for poor tactics. Bayley was also a member of the Team Sprint squad along with Daniel Ellis and Mark French, they qualified for the final ride-off for the bronze medal. After a strong start, they faded and finished fourth, missing out on a medal by 0.008 of a second.^[7]

Bayley now lives in Brisbane with his wife Kristin, and their children, Aurora Rosalie Bayley (born November 2010) and Lincoln Jasper Ray Bayley (born August 2013).

Awards and honours

Bayley was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include:

• 2000 Male Junior Cyclist of the Year
• 2000 Australian Male Junior Track Cyclist of the Year
• 2001 Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year
• 2004 Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year
• 2004 Australian Cyclist of the Year
• 2015 Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee^[8]
• 2016 - Cycling Australia Hall of Fame ^[9]

Career highlights

References

External links

• Australian Cycling Federation Profile

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's keirin
1980–81: Danny Clark 1982: Gordon Singleton 1983: Urs Freuler 1984: Robert Dill-Bundi 1985: Urs Freuler 1986: Michel Vaarten 1987: Harumi Honda 1988–89: Claudio Golinelli 1990–92: Michael Hübner 1993: Gary Neiwand 1994: Marty Nothstein 1995: Frédéric Magné 1996: Marty Nothstein 1997: Frédéric Magné 1998–99: Jens Fiedler 2000: Frédéric Magné 2001: Ryan Bayley 2002: Jobie Dajka 2003: Laurent Gané 2004: Jamie Staff 2005: Teun Mulder 2006: Theo Bos 2007–08: Chris Hoy 2009: Maximilian Levy 2010: Chris Hoy 2011: Shane Perkins 2012: Chris Hoy 2013: Jason Kenny 2014–15: François Pervis 2016: Joachim Eilers