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Robbie McEwen

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Also known as Rocket Robbie, Robert McEwen

Australian cyclist

OverviewAI-generated

Robbie McEwen is an Australian sport cyclist born in Brisbane in 1972. He competes in road bicycle racing as a cycling sprinter. He has represented Australia in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as in the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France. His professional career includes membership in teams such as Team Visma-Lease a Bike, TVM, Domo-Farm Frites, and Katusha-Alpecin.

McEwen is also an author. His published work includes the title One way road. He speaks English and has a height of 171 and a mass of 68. His name appears in various encyclopedia articles, referenced by 384 other entries.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • One way road

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,756x

  2. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

    · 2020 · cited 13,331x

  3. Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor

    · 2019 · cited 6,672x

  4. High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite

    · 2008 · cited 5,793x

  5. Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition

    · 2009 · cited 5,176x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

2011
Team RadioShack
2012
GreenEDGE
Full name
Robert McEwen
Nickname
Rocket Robbie
Born
( 1972-06-24 ) 24 June 1972 (age 53) , Brisbane , Australia
Height
1.71 m (5 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
Weight
70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Rider type
Sprinter
1996 1999
Rabobank
2000 2001
Domo–Farm Frites
2002 2008
Lotto–Adecco
2009 2010
Team Katusha
2012 2013
Orica–GreenEDGE

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Robbie McEwen AM (born 24 June 1972) is an Australian former professional road cyclist. He is a three-time winner of the Tour de France points classification in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and, at the peak of his career, was considered the world's fastest sprinter.

He last rode for Orica–GreenEDGE on the UCI World Tour.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robbie McEwen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.