Jay Sweet
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Born | Adelaide, South Australia |
11 August 1975 ||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
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1997 | ZVVZ - Giant - AIS | ||||||||||||
1998–2001 | BigMat - Auber '93 | ||||||||||||
2002 | Saturn Cycling Team | ||||||||||||
2003 | MBK - Oktos | ||||||||||||
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Jay Sweet (born 11 August 1975) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist who won a gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
He accepted a road cycling scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport and in 1997 was a member of the ZVVZ - Giant - AIS team.[1] Between 1998 and 2001, he was a member of BigMat - Auber '93 (France).[1] He won the gold medal in the Men's Road Race at the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games.[1] Sweet rode in the 1999 Tour de France and did not finish Stage 15 due to an ankle injury from an accident during Stage 3.[1] He retired in 2003 and moved to New Zealand. Whilst in New Zealand he worked as a commercial fisherman and apprentice builder. In 2012, he returned to Adelaide and in 2015 was working as a stonemason.[1][2] In 2015, he rode in the Tour of the Riverland in South Australia and finished 2nd in Stage 1.[3]
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