Full name Shane Sutton 1984 Ever Ready - Marlboro Siblings Gary Sutton 1983 Clarence St. Cyclery Role Coach | 1982 Mavic - Clemenso Name Shane Sutton Discipline Track & Road 1985 Falcon - Maillard Nephews Christopher Sutton | |
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Similar People Dave Brailsford, Gary Sutton, Christopher Sutton, Victoria Pendleton, Mark Cavendish | ||
Trackside with Team GB coach Shane Sutton
Shane Edwin Sutton OBE (born 13 June 1957 in Moree, New South Wales) is an Australian-born former professional racing cyclist turned cycling coach, whose last position was as Technical Director for British Cycling.
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- Trackside with Team GB coach Shane Sutton
- Track side with shane sutton
- Racing career
- Coaching career
- Awards
- References
Track side with shane sutton
Racing career
He rode under Phil Griffiths as a member of the first British-based professional team to enter the Tour de France in 1987 and went on to win the 1990 Milk Race. Sutton was also one of the four men to win gold for Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games along with his brother, Gary Sutton.
Coaching career
After retiring Shane worked as a coach with Welsh Cycling before joining the British Cycling set-up in 2002. He was also employed as head coach at Team Sky but scaled back his involvement to become a part-time performance adviser for the professional team in 2013. Following the departure of Dave Brailsford from his role as British Cycling's Performance Director in April 2014, Sutton was promoted from his previous position as head coach to the newly created role of Technical Director.
On 27 April 2016 it was announced that Sutton had been suspended whilst facing allegations of discrimination. This followed a report that Sutton has called para-cyclists "'gimps', with another word in front of that", an accusation made by Paralympic gold medalist Darren Kenny. This followed earlier reports that cyclist Jessica Varnish had been told by him to "go and have a baby" rather than cycle and a controversy over the non-selection of the UK's BMX national champion Tre Whyte for the 2016 Olympic Games. He resigned later that day.
Awards
Shane was awarded the accolade of Sports Council for Wales' (now Sport Wales) Coach of the Year Award in 1998.
Sutton won the "Coach of the Year Award" at the Sports Coach UK Coaching Awards in December 2008. He was also one of seven coaches to win a "High Performance Coach of the Year" award.
Sutton was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.