Full name Samuel William Gaze | Discipline Mountain bike racing Name Samuel Gaze | |
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Anton cooper and samuel gaze gold and silver mountain bike commonwealth games glasgow 2014
Samuel William "Sam" Gaze (born 12 December 1995) is a New Zealand cross-country cyclist. He won the U23 Cross-Country at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. At the Men's cross-country event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal behind fellow New Zealand rider Anton Cooper. Gaze was selected ahead of Cooper, who suffered medical conditions during 2016, to represent New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He had two punctures in the Olympic race and his gears failed, and he pulled out when he got lapped.

Of Māori descent, Gaze affiliates to the Te Āti Awa iwi.




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