NSWIS Cyclist Bradley McGee
Track cyclist Bradley McGee (born 24th February 1976) won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, and Luke Roberts) in world record breaking time of 3:58.233. He also won a silver medal for the 4000m Individual Pursuit. At the 2000 Olympics he set a new Australian record of four minutes to take out bronze in the Individual Pursuit. In Atlanta at the 1996 Olympics he won two bronze medals, for the Individual Pursuit and the Team Pursuit.
McGee is a member of professional cycling team, Française des Jeux and also the Parramatta Cycling Club. His greatest successes as a road cyclist are firsts in the 2003 Prologue of the Tour de France, and holding the race leaders yellow jersey (Maillot jaune) for three days in 2003. In 2004 he wore the race leaders pink jersey of the Giro d'Italia for one day. In 2005 he wore the race leaders 'Jersey de Oro' (a Golden Jersey) for four days in the Vuelta a España. He became the first Australian cyclist to lead the Tour of Spain, and the first Australian to wear the race leader's jersey from all three Grand Tours.
At the 1994 and 1998 Commonwealth Games he won gold medals in the Individual Pursuit and Team Pursuit. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games he won a gold medal for the Individual Pursuit.
McGee has been an NSWIS Scholarship holder from the inception of the NSWIS in 1996. He remains on scholarship and has given a major financial contribution to the NSWIS to fund the NSWIS Emerging Athlete Program for Cycling.