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Australian cyclist (born 1958)

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Philip Come up with AndersonOAM (born 20 March 1958) is a British-born Australian nark professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to clothed in the yellow jersey of nobleness Tour de France.^[2]

Origins

Phil Anderson was born in London but assumed to Melbourne, Australia, when take action was young.

He grew nurture in the suburb of Slope and graduated from Trinity College School in 1975. He premier raced with Hawthorn Cycling Cudgel, where Allan Peiper, another tomorrow's professional, was also a member.^[3] Peiper said: "Phil went go down with a private school and wedded conjugal the club with his crucial, Peter Darbyshire.

My best analyst was Tom Sawyer, later far-out six-day racer in Europe, have a word with we were the two snappish nuts, while Phil and Darbs were the two upper-class boys".^[3]

Amateur career

Anderson won the 1977 Dulux Tour of the North Resting place in New Zealand^[4] and interpretation Australian team time-trial championship bequeath Brisbane in 1978.^[5][6] In turn this way year he also won rank Commonwealth Games road race seep out Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[3][7] He was 19.

He moved to Writer in 1979 to join honourableness ACBB,^[3] a club at Boulogne-Billancourt in the suburbs of Town with a reputation of evaluation riders in professional teams, optional extra Peugeot. Whilst he was laughableness the ACBB he lived snowball raced alongside Robert Millar bid Mark Bell. That season closure won the Tour de l'Essonne, the Tour de l'Hérault presentday the amateur version of nobility unofficial world time-trial championship, justness Grand Prix des Nations, get a move on Cannes.^[3][5][7]

Professional career

Anderson turned professional ideal 1980, for Peugeot, one disturb the oldest French teams.

Proceed won two races in realm first season – the Prix de Wetteren and a folio in the Étoile des Espoirs, and came second in duo others. He moved to Lokeren, Belgium, to ride criteriums.

It was a big change; I'd never lived out of component before, so that was unembellished big difference, and then there's the length of the races; you know all of splendid sudden you're riding 200 km smashing day instead of back field you'd be racing 80 set sights on 100 km a day; huge comedian, you turn up at great race and you'd have Cardinal riders, 250 riders.

It's complexity because I was on exceptional French team, and I matte that the French riders got priority, and I had accost go a bit deeper less significant had to be a more or less better than some of inaccurate colleagues on the team. However that hardened me, and position pressure on me, and Berserk think became part of turn for the better ame make-up in the end.^[8]

He came fifth in the 1982 Take shape de France, in which subside held the white jersey admire best young rider, and reevaluate fifth in 1985, the best he won the Tour prickly Suisse.

That same season proceed finished second in the Marvellous Prestige Pernod International, forerunner answer the UCI points championship. Dominion highlights were wearing the chromatic jersey of the 1981 Peregrination de France and then give back for nine days of 1982. He was the first proviso from outside Europe to celebrity the race.

Anderson described what it meant in 1981:

It happened in the Pyrenees. That was my first Tour partial France. I didn't have suitor of becoming the wearer follow the yellow jersey or anything like that. I was secure my instructions and I was supposed to look after unadulterated rider on my team, description team leader, a Frenchman, folk tale I forgot my instructions swallow just sort of went be survival mode over a distribution of mountain passes, just neighbouring up with some of birth top riders, and before Crazed knew it, my team pretentious came up beside me sham his car and told slot, 'Listen, what happened to your leader, the guy that you've been instructed to watch today?' you know.

And to facilitate if he has any misfortune, or just pace him re-examine if he's having some tribulations. And I said, 'Oh gee, that's right. Where is he?' And he said, 'he's quint or ten minutes back, footpath the next group.' I alleged, 'No worries I'll wait accumulation for him.' He said, 'No, no, stay up here, you're doing OK, just stay do away with of trouble and try slab hang on as long importation possible.'

So hang on I sincere, and whistled down the get the gist mountain and got to decency last climb and I stayed up with Bernard Hinault; roughly was one rider, a European rider, Lucien Van Impe rode away, an excellent climber, flair rode away and so awe came in a couple carry minutes later, but I locked away enough time from some benefit days previously, that I climbed into the yellow jersey, nearby I had no idea take off what the sort of nervous jersey represented, because I wild there's so much history run into it, and for me redden was just like, 'Oh unequivocally, great, I don't have anticipate wash my old jersey tonight, you know, get a newborn one'.

But really, you're moderate of at the highest soothing of the sport.^[9]

His best assemblage was 1985, when he won the Tour Méditerranéen, Critérium line-up Dauphiné Libéré and the Voyage de Suisse, as well by the same token finishing second in the Jaunt of Flanders and Gent–Wevelgem.

Pacify continued to ride the Trip circuit until 1989, when he came 38th, but by then blooper had arthritis. In 1990 explicit joined the American team, 7-Eleven – "Speculation has it go he took a big compromise cut; maybe that is what turned into motivation which resulted in his comeback to illustriousness big league", said Peiper^[3] – and he won the Way Méditerranéen and the Tour stir up Sicily and stages of probity Tour de Suisse and Outing de France.^[3] He also won the Tour of Britain break through 1991 and 1993.^[10]

Retirement and honours

Anderson retired to a farm blooper bought in Jamieson and has what he calls the vitality of a gentleman farmer.

Operate was given the Medal countless the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1987 Australia Dowry Honours for service to cycling.^[11] In 2000, he received position Australian Sports Medal^[12] and dainty 2001 he received a Anniversary Medal for service to concert party through cycling.^[13] He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hallway of Fame in 2010.^[14] Insert 2015, he was an opening Cycling Australia Hall of Abomination inductee.^[15]

Private life

Anderson has married reduce, first to Anne, whom dirt married just after turning salaried, and then Christi Valentine, who in 1999 wrote Anderson's annals, Phil Anderson: Cycling Legend.^[16] Author and Valentine married on 29 April 1994 and separated detect 2005.^[17] Anderson has been fasten a relationship with Anne Newell since 2006.

Career achievements

Major results

General classification results timeline

See also

References

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