Gary Sutton
# Gary Sutton

Gary Sutton (born 27 March 1955) is a cycling coach and a former professional racing cyclist. In 1980, Sutton became the amateur World Champion in the Points Race.

Sutton was born in Moree, New South Wales. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was one of the four men to win gold in the team pursuit for Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games along with his brother, Shane Sutton, who has worked as National Technical Director for British Cycling. Gary is also the father of Christopher Sutton, a professional racing cyclist.

After retiring from competition, Sutton became a coach, spending 26 years as a national coach with Cycling Australia. In May 2017, it was announced that Cycling Australia would not renew the contract for his position as women's endurance coach beyond the end of June. In August of the same year, USA Cycling announced that Sutton had been appointed as their track endurance head coach.

Sutton partnered Hugh Porter as the BBC's commentary team for the cycling events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

## Palmarès

### 1974

    2nd Team Pursuit, Commonwealth Games
    3nd Pursuit, Commonwealth Games

### 1978

    1st Team Pursuit Commonwealth Games (with Colin Fitzgerald, Kevin Nichols and Shane Sutton)

### 1980

    1st Prologue, GP Wilhelm Tell
    1st Amateur Points Race 1980 Track Cycling World Championships

### 1982

    8th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
    1st and fastest time Goulburn to Sydney Classic

### 1983

    1st Bendigo International Madison with Shane Sutton

### 1984

    1st Herald Sun Tour
       1st Stage 3, Herald Sun Tour
       1st Stage 6, Herald Sun Tour
       1st Stage 9, Herald Sun Tour
       1st Stage 18, Herald Sun Tour
    1st Stage 3, Yorkshire Classic (Harrogate)
    1st Whitby
    4th Newport, East Riding of Yorkshire
    5th Yorkshire Classic (Harrogate)

1990

    9th Herald Sun Tour
       1st Stage 14, Herald Sun Tour
