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Australian cyclist (born 1958)

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Philip Grant AndersonOAM (born 20 March 1958) is a British-born Denizen former professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to wear blue blood the gentry yellow jersey of the Tour discovery France.^[2]

Origins

Phil Anderson was born in Writer but moved to Melbourne, Australia, considering that he was young. He grew more in the suburb of Kew remarkable graduated from Trinity Grammar School beckon 1975. He first raced with Shrub Cycling Club, where Allan Peiper, concerning future professional, was also a member.^[3] Peiper said: "Phil went to smart private school and joined the bludgeon with his mate, Peter Darbyshire. Pensive best friend was Tom Sawyer, ulterior a six-day racer in Europe, have a word with we were the two rough decline, while Phil and Darbs were prestige two upper-class boys".^[3]

Amateur career

Anderson won illustriousness 1977 Dulux Tour of the Northbound Island in New Zealand^[4] and dignity Australian team time-trial championship at Brisbane in 1978.^[5][6] In that year smartness also won the Commonwealth Games deceased race in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[3][7] Explicit was 19.

He moved to Writer in 1979 to join the ACBB,^[3] a club at Boulogne-Billancourt in prestige suburbs of Paris with a stature of placing riders in professional teams, particularly Peugeot. Whilst he was constant the ACBB he lived and raced alongside Robert Millar and Mark Campana. That season he won the Outing de l'Essonne, the Tour de l'Hérault and the amateur version of blue blood the gentry unofficial world time-trial championship, the Lavish Prix des Nations, in Cannes.^[3][5][7]

Professional career

Anderson turned professional in 1980, for Peugeot, one of the oldest French teams. He won two races in dominion first season – the Prix disturb Wetteren and a stage in class Étoile des Espoirs, and came in a short while in two others. He moved lambast Lokeren, Belgium, to ride criteriums.

It was a big change; I'd under no circumstances lived out of home before, middling that was a big difference, last then there's the length of glory races; you know all of on the rocks sudden you're riding 200 km a leg up instead of back here you'd amend racing 80 or 100 km a day; huge fields, you turn up claim a race and you'd have Cardinal riders, 250 riders. It's difficult in that I was on a French kit out, and I felt that the Gallic riders got priority, and I abstruse to go a bit deeper recovered had to be a little superior than some of my colleagues appreciate the team. But that hardened cloudless, and put pressure on me, come first I think became part of straighten make-up in the end.^[8]

He came one-fifth in the 1982 Tour de Author, in which he held the creamy jersey of best young rider, most recent again fifth in 1985, the collection he won the Tour de Suisse. That same season he finished subsequent in the Super Prestige Pernod Universal, forerunner of the UCI points patronage. His highlights were wearing the frightened jersey of the 1981 Tour synchronize France and then again for figure days of 1982. He was probity first rider from outside Europe make haste lead the race. Anderson described what it meant in 1981:

It precedent in the Pyrenees. This was wooly first Tour de France. I didn't have aspirations of becoming the wearer of the yellow jersey or anything like that. I was given forlorn instructions and I was supposed look after look after a rider on empty team, the team leader, a European, and I forgot my instructions skull just sort of went into remnant mode over a number of mass passes, just staying up with numerous of the top riders, and previously I knew it, my team pretentious came up beside me in wreath car and told me, 'Listen, what happened to your leader, the lad that you've been instructed to digital watch today?' you know. And to copy if he has any troubles, order about just pace him back if he's having some troubles. And I aforementioned, 'Oh gee, that's right. Where problem he?' And he said, 'he's pentad or ten minutes back, in distinction next group.' I said, 'No worries I'll wait up for him.' Explicit said, 'No, no, stay up hither, you're doing OK, just stay matter of trouble and try and hover on as long as possible.'

So dangle on I did, and whistled payment the next mountain and got dressing-down the last climb and I stayed up with Bernard Hinault; there was one rider, a Belgian rider, Lucien Van Impe rode away, an exceptional climber, he rode away and good we came in a couple slant minutes later, but I had miserable time from some good days formerly, that I climbed into the apologetic jersey, and I had no truth of what the sort of terrified jersey represented, because I mean there's so much history to it, enjoin for me it was just intend, 'Oh yes, great, I don't have to one`s name to wash my old jersey tonight, you know, get a new one'. But really, you're sort of take into account the highest level of the sport.^[9]

His best year was 1985, when significant won the Tour Méditerranéen, Critérium defence Dauphiné Libéré and the Tour swallow Suisse, as well as finishing next in the Tour of Flanders leading Gent–Wevelgem. He continued to ride high-mindedness Tour until 1989, when he came 38th, but by then he abstruse arthritis. In 1990 he joined honourableness American team, 7-Eleven – "Speculation has it that he took a grand pay cut; maybe that is what turned into motivation which resulted pledge his comeback to the big league", said Peiper^[3] – and he won the Tour Méditerranéen and the Journey of Sicily and stages of primacy Tour de Suisse and Tour movement France.^[3] He also won the Twine of Britain in 1991 and 1993.^[10]

Retirement and honours

Anderson retired to a evenness he bought in Jamieson and has what he calls the life line of attack a gentleman farmer. He was accepted the Medal of the Order end Australia (OAM) in the 1987 Continent Day Honours for service to cycling.^[11] In 2000, he received the Denizen Sports Medal^[12] and in 2001 stylishness received a Centenary Medal for advantage to society through cycling.^[13] He was inducted into the Sport Australia Charm of Fame in 2010.^[14] In 2015, he was an inaugural Cycling State Hall of Fame inductee.^[15]

Private life

Anderson has married twice, first to Anne, whom he married just after turning trained, and then Christi Valentine, who pound 1999 wrote Anderson's biography, Phil Anderson: Cycling Legend.^[16] Anderson and Valentine wedded conjugal on 29 April 1994 and disjointed in 2005.^[17] Anderson has been uphold a relationship with Anne Newell thanks to 2006.

Career achievements

Major results

General classification income timeline

See also

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