Bryce Lindores
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Lindores
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| Nationality |  Australia |
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| Born | 12 September 1986 Gold Coast, Queensland |
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Bryce Lindores (born 12 September 1986)[1] is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist.
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Personal
Lindores was born on the Gold Coast[2] and attended Somerset College.[3] He played rugby, tennis and touch football when he was young.[1] He became blind six days before his eighteenth birthday due to an accident in which a towing rope snapped while he was towing a car with his ute.[1] He lives in the Gold Coast suburb of Mermaid Beach in the subdivision of Nobby beach.[1] In 2009, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.[1]
Career
Lindores began cycling in 2006, two years after the accident that took his sight.[1] Six months later, he won a bronze medal riding with pilot Steve Storer at the 2006 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Aigle, Switzerland and was awarded the 2006 Queensland Tandem Cyclist of the Year.[1] He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's Individual Pursuit B VI 1–3 event with his pilot Steven George; the pair took six seconds off their personal best.[1][4] He won a road racing gold medal at the 2010 Road World Cup.[1] In 2011, his pilot was Sean Finning; that year he won a bronze medal in the 4 km individual pursuit at the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships and a gold and silver medal in road events at the national championships.[1] In 2012 he won a gold medal at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in the men's tandem 4 km pursuit with his pilot Scott McPhee in their first competition together; his usual pilot, former world champion Mark Jamieson, could not attend the competition.[5] He competed with Sean Finning at the 2012 London Paralympics and they won the silver medal in the Men's individual pursuit B .[1][4][6] He was due to ride with Jamieson but he was denied a visa to enter England due to a criminal record.[7]
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