Aaron Murray Gate (born 26 November 1990) is a New Zealand road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He represented his country in track cycling at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Gate is the first New Zealand athlete to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games.
Career
He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit event with teammates Sam Bewley, Marc Ryan, Jesse Sergent and Westley Gough. On 24 February 2013 in Belarus, Gate won the world championship title in the omnium event. Alongside Pieter Bulling, Regan Gough, and Dylan Kennett, he came fourth in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics, being beaten by Denmark to the bronze medal. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. In 2021 he won his first national title winning the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships by 0.7 seconds ahead of George Bennett.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Gate competed in the team pursuit event with teammates Regan Gough, Jordan Kerby and Campbell Stewart. In the bronze medal race against Australia, he crashed after clipping Kerby's rear wheel, fracturing his collarbone. He subsequently withdrew from the rest of the Games, and was replaced by Stewart in the madison and omnium events.
In 2022, at the age of 31, Gate became a quadruple Commonwealth champion when taking gold in the individual pursuit, team pursuit and points race on the track as well as the road race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Major results
Road
2011
1st Stage 4 Tour of the Murray River
6th Overall Rás Tailteann
10th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt U23
2012
7th Overall Tour of Wellington
:1st Stage 5
2013
10th HalleâÂÂIngooigem
2015
4th RutlandâÂÂMelton CiCLE Classic
5th Overall Rás Tailteann
:1st Sprints classification
:1st Stages 2 & 5
6th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
6th Ronde van Overijssel
2016
1st Overall Tour of Southland
:1st Stage 5
1st Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge
6th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
6th Overall Rás Tailteann
:1st Points classification
:1st Stage 6
2018
1st Mountains classification, Tour of Austria
2019 <small>(1 pro win)</small>
1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
:1st Stage 1
1st Stage 1 BelgradeâÂÂBanja Luka
5th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
9th Antwerp Port Epic
2020
1st Overall Tour of Southland
:1st Stage 1 (TTT), 6 & 7
2nd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
:1st Stage 1
4th Road race, National Championships
2021 <small>(1)</small>
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Gravel and Tar Classic
3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
4th Chrono des Nations
10th Lillehammer GP
2022 <small>(4)</small>
Commonwealth Games
:1st Road race
:4th Time trial
1st Time trial, Oceania Championships
1st Overall International Tour of Hellas
:1st Stage 1
4th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
:1st Stage 3
10th Overall Tour of Belgium
10th Polynormande
2023 <small>(2)</small>
1st Time trial, National Championships
2nd Overall International Tour of Hellas
:1st Prologue
2024 <small>(5)</small>
Oceania Championships
:1st Time trial
:3rd Road race
National Championships
:1st Road race
:2nd Time trial
1st Overall Tour of Hainan
:1st Points classification
:1st Stages 3 & 4
1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
:1st Stages 1, 3, 4 & 5
1st Overall Trans-Himalaya Cycling Race
4th Overall Tour de Taiwan
6th Gravel and Tar Classic
2025 <small>(4)</small>
1st Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
:1st Stage 2
1st Stage 8 Tour de Langkawi
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
3rd Overall Tour of Hainan
:1st Stage 4
6th Grand Prix Criquielion
10th Surf Coast Classic
2026
10th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Track
2008
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
2009
Oceania Championships
:2nd Team pursuit
:3rd Madison (with Myron Simpson)
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Pekin
2010
Oceania Championships
:2nd Madison (with Myron Simpson)
:2nd Team pursuit
:3rd Omnium
UCI World Cup
:2nd Madison, Melbourne (with Myron Simpson)
:2nd Team pursuit, Manchester
2011
Oceania Championships
:1st Team pursuit
:2nd Points race
UCI World Cup
:1st Team pursuit, Cali
:3rd Team pursuit, London
2012
1st Scratch, National Championships
3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2013
1st Omnium, UCI World Championships
Oceania Championships
:1st Team pursuit
:2nd Omnium
:3rd Madison (with Marc Ryan)
National Championships
:1st Points race
:1st Scratch
:1st Individual pursuit
:1st Madison (with Myron Simpson)
3rd Omnium, UCI World Cup, Manchester
2014
Oceania Championships
:1st Points race
:2nd Team pursuit
:3rd Omnium
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
3rd Points race, Commonwealth Games
2015
Oceania Championships
:1st Points race
:1st Team pursuit
:2nd Omnium
1st Omnium, National Championships
2016
Oceania Championships
:1st Omnium
:2nd Points race
1st Points race, National Championships
2017
2nd Omnium, UCI World Championships
2018
1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Cambridge (with Campbell Stewart)
2019
UCI World Cup
:1st Omnium, Brisbane
:1st Madison, Cambridge (with Campbell Stewart)
:2nd Madison, Brisbane (with Tom Sexton)
:3rd Team pursuit, Cambridge
2020
National Championships
:1st Omnium
:1st Individual pursuit
:1st Madison (with Campbell Stewart)
UCI World Championships
:2nd Madison (with Campbell Stewart)
:2nd Team pursuit
2021
National Championships
:1st Points race
:1st Individual pursuit
2nd Omnium, UCI World Championships
UCI Champions League
:2nd Elimination, PanevÃÂÃ
¾ys
:2nd Elimination, London
2022
Commonwealth Games
:1st Team pursuit
:1st Individual pursuit
:1st Points race
Oceania Championships
:1st Individual pursuit
:1st Points race
:1st Scratch
:1st Omnium
:2nd Madison (with Tom Sexton)
3rd Omnium, UCI World Championships
2023
UCI World Championships
:1st Points race
:3rd Madison (with Campbell Stewart)
:3rd Team pursuit
2024
3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Jules Hesters)
References
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