Gordon "Gord" Fraser (born November 19, 1968) is a Canadian former professional road racing cyclist. As a rider he specialised in sprinting.[1]
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Gordon Harold Fraser |
| Born | 19 November 1968 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role |
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| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Professional teams | |
| 1994–1996 | Motorola Cycling Team |
| 1997 | Mutuelle de Seine-et-Marne |
| 1998–2002 | Parkhotel Valkenburg[template problem] |
| 2003–2006 | Health Net–Maxxis |
| Managerial teams | |
| 2009 | Team Type 1 |
| 2010 | UnitedHealthcare–Maxxis |
| 2011 | Realcyclist.com Cycling Team |
| 2015–2018 | Silber Pro Cycling Team |
| 2019 | Floyd's Pro Cycling |
| 2022– | Israel Cycling Academy |
Fraser is a three-time Olympian and four-time Commonwealth Games participant and has over 200 career wins including becoming the 2004 Canadian national road race champion. He also rode in the 1997 Tour de France and won the US National Race Calendar series twice.[1] He retired from professional cycling at the end of the 2006 season after racing four seasons for the Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis.
He went on to be a directeur sportif with Team Type 1 in 2009, and joined UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis as a directeur sportif in 2010. In 2011 became DS for the US Continental team, Realcyclist.com.[2] Whilst there he guided Francisco Mancebo to the top of the National Race Calendar individual standings in 2011 and again in 2012 (under the team's new name of Competitive Cyclist Racing Team). However he left the team when it merged with Kenda-5 Hour Energy ahead of the 2013 season. Subsequently he was approached by Team Exergy to work for them in 2013, however this fell through when Exergy withdrew its sponsorship of the team.[1] In 2014 he worked for Team SmartStop at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, and took the directeur sportif role at the Silber Pro Cycling Team for several races on a part-time basis, before signing a two-year deal with the squad in September of that year.[3] After it emerged that Silber would disband at the end of the 2018 season, Floyd Landis announced that Fraser would serve as manager of his new UCI Continental team, Floyd's of Leadville.[4] After leaving the scene for two years, Fraser was announced to become the head directeur sportif of the Israel Premier Tech Academy team for the 2022 season, replacing Zak Dempster.[5]
Fraser resides in Tucson, Arizona and has two sons named Angus and Axel.
Major results
edit- 1992
- 1st Stage 5 Niederösterreich Rundfahrt
- 1994
- 1st Paris–Troyes
- 1st Paris–Chauny
- 1st Stages 2, 4 & 5 Tour de Normandie
- 1st Stages 2 & 5 Tour du Vaucluse
- 1995
- 5th Trofeo Luis Puig
- 1997
- 1st Stage 4 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
- 5th Paris–Mantes
- 10th Le Samyn
- 1998
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Stages 1 & 4 Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage 1 Killington Stage Race
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Beauce
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Toona
- 2nd Overall Sea Otter Classic
- 1999
- 1st Overall Tucson Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- Tour Trans Canada
- 1st Stages 2, 3, 6, 8 & 9
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 3 & 5 Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stages 2 & 7 International Cycling Classic
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Beauce
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Toona
- 1st Stage 2 Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
- 2nd
Road race, Pan American Games - 2nd Road race, Pan American Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Sea Otter Classic
- 3rd Athens Twilight Criterium
- 7th First Union Classic
- 2000
- 1st Athens Twilight Criterium
- 1st GP de la Ville de Rennes
- 1st Stage 1 Critérium International
- 1st Overall Valley of the Sun Stage Race
- 1st Stages 1 & 3
- 1st Overall Tour de Toona
- 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4
- 1st Prologue & Stage 3 Sea Otter Classic
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2nd First Union Classic
- 8th Philadelphia International Cycling Classic
- 2001
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Beauce
- 1st Stage 2 Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Prologue & Stage 3 Tour de Toona
- 2nd Clarendon Cup
- 2002
- 1st First Union Classic
- 1st Overall Tucson Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st Athens Twilight Criterium
- 1st Manhattan Beach Grand Prix
- 1st Stage 1 Valley of the Sun Stage Race
- 1st Stage 2 Sea Otter Classic
- 1st Stage 6b Tour de Beauce
- 3rd Overall USA Cycling National Racing Calendar
- 2003
- 1st Gastown Grand Prix
- 1st Stages 1 & 3 Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Beauce
- 1st Stage 1 Tucson Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage 1 Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stages 2, 3 & 4 Pomona Valley Stage Race
- 3rd Manhattan Beach Grand Prix
- 2004
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Stages 1 & 7 Tour de Georgia
- 1st
Points classification, Tour de Langkawi - 1st Stage 4 Cascade Cycling Classic
- 2nd Overall USA Cycling National Racing Calendar
- 2nd CSC Invitational
- 2nd Wachovia Classic
- 3rd Philadelphia International Championship
- 2005
- 1st Wachovia Classic
- 1st Gastown Grand Prix
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de Georgia
- 1st Historic Roswell Criterium
- 1st Stage 1 Cascade Cycling Classic
- 1st Stage 4 Nature Valley Grand Prix
- 2nd Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Overall Sea Otter Classic
- 1st Stage 2
- 3rd Overall Tour de Delta
- 1st Stage 3
- 2006
- 1st
Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 4
- 1st Historic Roswell Criterium
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Delta
- 1st Stage 3 Central Valley Classic
- 3rd Overall Tour of Elk Grove
- 3rd Athens Twilight Criterium
References
edit- ^ a b c Malach, Pat (26 February 2013). "Fraser picking up pieces after Exergy team collapse". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ "UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis blends veterans with up-and-coming riders for 2010". Facebook.com. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "Fraser signs two-year deal to direct Silber Pro Cycling". cyclingnews.com. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ Cash, Dane (5 October 2018). "Q&A: Why Floyd Landis is starting a cycling team". VeloNews. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "Gordon Fraser new head sports director of Israel Cycling Academy". israelcyclingacademy.com. 19 September 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
External links
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- Gordon Fraser at UCI
- Gordon Fraser at Cycling Archives
- Gordon Fraser at ProCyclingStats
- Gordon Fraser at Cycling Quotient
- Gordon Fraser at CycleBase
- Interview on Cycling News
- Interview on BMC
- Interview on Canoe[usurped]
- 2005 Pezcyclingnews interview of Gord Fraser by Matt Wood
