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Matthew Gilmore (born 11 September 1972 in
Ghent Ghent ( ; ; historically known as ''Gaunt'' in English) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium, province ...
) is a Belgian-Australian retired
track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...
, who mostly competed and was most successful on track for Belgium. Although Gilmore was born in and represented Belgium, he is the son of Australian racing cyclist Graeme Gilmore and competed with an Australian licence earlier in his career, changing to Belgium on 15 June 1998. Gilmore is also the nephew of British racing cyclist Tom Simpson. At the
2000 Sydney Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...
he won a silver medal in the men's madison event together with Etienne De Wilde. That year, he rode for Danish
road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The ...
Memory Card–Jack & Jones. Before that he rode for SPAR–RDM, and afterwards he changed to Vlaanderen–T Interim.


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* * Belgian male cyclists Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Belgium Cyclists from Ghent 1972 births Living people Olympic silver medalists in cycling UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Belgium Belgian track cyclists {{Belgium-Olympic-medalist-stub