Personal information | |
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Full name | Peter McDonald |
Born | Coonabarabran, Australia | 22 September 1978
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
2006–2007 | FRF Couriers–Caravello |
2008–2010 | Drapac–Porsche Development Program |
2011 | V Australia |
2012 | Plan B Racing Team |
Major wins | |
National Road Race Championships (2009) |
Peter McDonald (born 22 September 1978) is an Australian former professional road cyclist. He won the Australian National Road Race Championships in 2009.[1][2]
McDonald grew up in Armidale in country NSW. Both of his parents were school teachers. He worked as a school teacher in Darwin for a couple of years before returning to NSW where he began work as a bicycle courier in Sydney. A fellow courier introduced him to racing at Randwick Botany Cycling Club located at Heffron Park in Sydney's south east. Eventually he began to ride full-time for a number of smaller local teams. Coached by Adam Hogan of Cheeky Transport Bike shop he won Australia's Grafton-Inverell race, and won first National Road series win in Victoria at Bright. This led to riding for the Drapac Porsche team.
Major results
- 2006
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2007
- 3rd Overall FBD Insurance Ras
- 2008
- 4th Overall Tour de Taiwan
- 1st Stage 3
- 7th Overall Tour de Hokkaido
- 1st Stage 5
- 2009
- 1st Overall UCI Oceania Tour
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Tour of Wellington
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Overall Tour de Taiwan
- 10th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
- 2010
- 2nd Japan Cup Cycle Road Race
- 4th Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Mountains classification
- 6th Overall Tour of Wellington
- 1st Stage 1