Ross Edgar
Ross Edgar (born 3 January 1983) is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Scotland at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal in the team sprint riding with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean. He competed for Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games
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| Born | 3 January 1983 Newmarket, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider / Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter / Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| West Suffolk Wheelers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008 | Science in Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2012 | Team Sky & Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Team IG–Sigma Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | UCI & Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He won a silver medal at the 2007 UCI Track World Championships in the team sprint and a bronze medal in the Keirin.
He won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
In London 2012 Olympics, Edgar who was to represent Great Britain in the Team Sprint final was replaced & missed out on a Gold Medal which the team won.
Representing Scotland internationally he was Born in Newmarket, Suffolk. Having qualified to represent Scotland through his father David.
Ross Edgar as an amateur youth rider started with West Suffolk Wheelers based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk alongside younger brother Bruce.
In December 2012 it was announced that Edgar had signed for the IG-Sigma Sport cycling team for the 2013 season, adding road racing commitments to his existing membership of the Great Britain track cycling programme. After the team withdrew from racing at the end of the season Edgar was confirmed as s member of the Great Britain Olympic Podium Programme, switching from the sprint to the endurance squad.
Pre 2018, Edgar was a UCI coach based in Aigle, Switzerland, where he also coached Korean cyclist Lee Hye-Jin, who finished 8th in the keirin at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Currently he is a track sprint coach for Cycling Australia, based in Adelaide.