 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Nick Yallouris | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1994-02-24) 24 February 1994 (age 30) Gosford, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Central Coast | ||||||||||||||
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Nick Yallouris (born 24 February 1994) is an Australian track cyclist. He represented Australia in the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a sighted pilot for Australian cycling Paralympian, Matthew Formston.
Personal
Yallouris was born on 24 February 1974 in Gosford, New South Wales. Yallouris currently resides in Chittaway Point on the NSW Central Coast. He is a Bicycle mechanic by trade.
Career
Yallouris has had a passion for bicycles since a young age. He is from a BMX background and was introduced to track cycling in 2010. In 2015, he won the madison and came third in the elite scratch race and elite time trial at the 2015 Australian National Track Championships. Yallouris was then selected to join the Australian Paralympic Cycling Team. His debut for Australia in the Para-cycling team was at the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in the Netherlands where he paired up with Commonwealth Games medallist Paul Kennedy. They finished sixth with a time of (1:04.274). At the Rio Paralympics, Yallouris will be the pilot for Formston. They train up to 13 times per week.
Recognition
- 2012 - Central Coast Cyclist of the Year
References
Portals:
- ^ "Rider Profiles". Cycling Australia. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Nick Yallouris". Subaru NSWIS Cycling Team website. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ "Nick Yallouris". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- "ADDITIONAL RIDERS BOLSTER AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR 2015 PARA-CYCLING TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". Cycling Australia website. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
External links
- Nick Yallouris at Paralympics Australia
- NSWIS Cycling team profile
- We Believe - Matt Formston and Nick Yallouris
- Nick Yallouris on Twitter
- Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Paralympic cyclists for Australia
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Australian male cyclists
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Australian track cyclists
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen