Julian Dean (born 28 January 1975) is a former professional

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from New Zealand who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. He last rode for

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team , where he now works as an assistant sporting director and mentor. His main achievements include winning the 2007 and 2008 New Zealand National Road Race Championships, finishing 9th in the 2005 World Road Championships in Madrid, 10th place in the 2002 World Road Championships in

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and finishing second in Grand Tour stages four times. At the peak of his career he was considered the best lead out rider in the world, and was highly regarded by his teammate and friend

Thor Hushovd Thor Hushovd (born 18 January 1978) is a Norwegian former professional road bicycle racer. He is known for sprinting and time trialing; Hushovd is a three-time Norwegian National Road Race Championships, Norwegian national road race champion ( ...

Early life

Born in

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, New Zealand, Dean is the son of Waimata dairy farmers Peter and Valerie Dean. Locally known as the "Grasshopper", started cycling when he was just a child, beginning at the local BMX club in, where he had success with two 3rd-place finishes in the New Zealand Championships. Dean tried his hand at many sports before moving onto

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, which he enjoyed. From triathlon, Dean fell in love with cycling, where he represented New Zealand in road and track disciplines. In 1997, Dean got his chance to race in the US with the Shaklee team and the Mercury cycling team in 1998.

Career

US Postal

In 1999, Dean signed to the now-defunct US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team, whom he rode for until 2001, gaining experience from racing in Europe. He managed his first European victories with 2 stage wins in the tour of Britain. After having ridden in a team based around

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Dean went looking for new opportunities. He got them by joining in 2002. However, his joy was short-lived when Dean broke his leg in March 2002 and was out for three months. He took a stage win in the short stage race

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taking the leaders jersey & holding on to win the overall race beating some of the world's best riders to the victory including a great tussle with Italy's star rider Michele Bartoli.

Credit Agricole

In 2004 he signed to as a lead-out man for sprinter

. He finished 8th behind stage winner

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in Stage 6 of the

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. He missed the 2005 edition of the Tour due to an injury incurred in the

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. He later returned for the 2006 edition. The 2007 cycling season started well with Dean winning the New Zealand Road Racing Champion title. This win entitled Dean to represent and wear the black and white New Zealand national cycling jersey whilst racing in all international road-racing events throughout the 2007 season. He continued to ride for the French-based team Crédit Agricole. During the 2007

, Dean was known for his role of lead-out for

. Hushovd later said in interviews that Dean was "the best lead-out man in the world." Dean's last public appearance wearing the Crédit Agricole jersey was the 2007

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criterium race, held on 27 December 2007. He won the elite category.

Slipstream-Chipotle

From 2008 to 2011, Dean rode for

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' team . He once again started the year by winning the New Zealand national Road Racing Championship, held in January. He recorded six top-ten finishes in the

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, with a best performance of fourth in stage 14. His overall classification was 110th, and 9th in the points competition. In 2009, during the 13th stage of the

from

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he, along with

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of got shot by an air rifle. He got shot in the thumb but was able to continue with a largely swollen hand where he eventually finished 112th on the stage. In completing the Tour de France, Dean became the only rider to start and finish all three grand tours during the 2009 season. During the finish of stage 11 from Sisteron to Bourg les Valence in the

Dean was involved in a highly publicised incident with

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, who repeatedly headbutted Julian Dean, who he believed had come across into his lead out. Subsequently, Renshaw was disqualified from the Tour de France.

GreenEDGE

In October 2011 Dean confirmed his move to the new Australian professional cycling team, . Dean believed "It sa hugely exciting development for cycling, especially in Australia and New Zealand" and that "With the quality of the team named,

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confident we'll get World Tour status straight away"Julian Dean joins Australian cycling team, GreenEDGE
/ref> which was subsequently achieved. Australian riders already signed to GreenEDGE include 2011 Milan – San Remo winner,

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, Australian National Road Race Champion,

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, Australian National Time Trial Champion and

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winner,

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, four time

runner up,

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and three-time winner of the

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. Julian had a training injury at the first camp. In December 2012 Dean confirmed his retirement from racing, his final race will be the New Zealand National Road Race Championships on 13 January. He will continue to work with GreenEdge Cycling as an assistant sporting director and mentor.

Grand Tour results

Tour de France

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: 127th *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

: 127th *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

: 107th *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

: 110th *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

: 121st *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

: 157th, 2nd Stages 4 and 18, 3rd Stage 20 *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

: 145th

Giro d'Italia

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: Abandoned, Stage 6 *

: 93rd *

: Did not start, Stage 19 *

: 136th *

: Did not start Stage 19. 2nd Stage 18, 3rd Stage 10

Vuelta a España

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

: 112th, 2nd Stage 21 *

: Abandoned, Stage 15 *

: 132nd *

: Did not start, Stage 13

Personal life

Dean is married with two children. During his time in New Zealand, Dean, is based in

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, New Zealand, where he hopes to eventually be based permanently. In 2010 Dean competed in the Singlespeed Mountain Biking World Championships.

Palmares

;1993 : 3rd World U19 Team Pursuit Championship ;1994 : 3rd Team Pursuit, Victoria, Commonwealth Games ;1995 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Kilometer Champion : Best All-Around Performance, New Zealand Track Championship ;1996 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Individual Pursuit champion : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Points Race Champion : 1st Tour of Somerville : 1st stage Tour of Ohio : 1st Red Rose Rocket Criterium : 1st stage,

Tour of Wellington The New Zealand Cycle Classic (previously known as the Tour of Wellington) was a road cycling race held in and around the Wairarapa near Wellington, New Zealand. The race was a men's competition over five stages and part of the UCI Oceania Tou ...

;1997 : 1st Visalia Criterium : 1st Santa Rosa Criterium ;1998 : 1st Outdoor Life Network GP : 1st Overall, US National Point Series : 1st Visalia Criterium : 1st stage, Tour LeFleur : 1st sprint competition Redlands Classic ;1999 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 11 :

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::1st Stages 2 & 7 ;2000 :10th First Union USPRO Championships ;2001 : 1st First Union Classic : 1st Stage 4

Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, it has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ...

;2002 :10th World Road Race Championships :10th

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;2003 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stages 4 & 5 : 1st Wachovia Classic : 1st Stage 2

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;2004 :2nd Overall

:::1st

Points classification ;2005 : 9th Road Race World Championships ;2007 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

National Road Race Championships : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

National Criterium Championships ;2008 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

National Road Race Championships : 1st Stage 1 TTT

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:3rd Overall

Tour of Ireland The Tour of Ireland ( Irish: Turas na hÉireann, known from 1985 to 1992 as the Nissan Classic) was a bicycle stage race held in August, which ran for 35 editions over a 56-year period. Irish rider Seán Kelly recorded the most wins, four. T ...

;2010 : 3rd National Road Race Championships ;2011 : 1st Stage 2 TTT

;2013 : 3rd National Road Race Championships

References

External links

Cyclingnews.com 2007 NZ Road Championships
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