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Cadel Evans became a full time road cyclist in the year 2001 and gradually made his way up through the ranks. He placed a distinct second at the Tour de France in the years 2007 and 2008. He is also the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour in the year 2007 and the UCI Road World Championships in the year 2009. Cadel Evans was pretty successful in the early stages of his career having won the Tour of Austria in the years 2001 and 2004. He also won the Tour de Romandie in the year 2006 after beating Spain’s Alberto Contador Velasco and Alejandro Valverde. Cadel Evans began his cycling career as a mountain bike rider, graduating from the Australian Institute of Sport before winning the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and finishing seventh at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Cadel Evans. Cadel Evans is an Australian road cyclist who in 2011 became the first Australian cycling to win the Tour de France, after finishing runner-up in the 2007 and 2008 editions of the race. Cadel Evans started out his career under Heiko Salzwedel and Damien Grundy as a member of the prestigious Australian Institute of Sport mountain bike MTB team. He was very successful at the under twenty three tournaments winning silver medals at the World Championships in the year 1997 and 1999. He is a professional cyclist and is Australian by birth. Cadel Evans claim to fame was winning the Tour de France in the year 2011. He started off his career as a mountain biker riding for the Diamondback MTB team and then went on to race for the Volvo-Cannondale MTB team. This Sunday marks the final race of Cadel Evans's career, the eponymous Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, drawing curtains on not just the 37 year old's career, but a chapter in Australian cycling. By. Al Hinds. 7 Apr 2015 - 5:20 PM UPDATED 13 Apr 2015 - 3:35 PM.
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