Sam Gaze
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| Full name | Samuel William Gaze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12 December 1995 Tokoroa, New Zealand[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Mountain bike racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Samuel Gaze (born 12 December 1995) is a New Zealand cross-country cyclist. He won the U23 Cross-Country at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. At the Men's cross-country event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal behind fellow New Zealand rider Anton Cooper.[2][3] Gaze was selected ahead of Cooper, who suffered medical conditions during 2016, to represent New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He had two punctures in the Olympic race and his gears failed, and he pulled out when he got lapped.[4]
Of Māori descent, Gaze affiliates to the Te Āti Awa iwi.[5]
References
- ↑ "Samuel Gaze". Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ↑ "Gold and silver for NZ mountain bikers". Radio NZ. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ↑ Richens, Matt (30 July 2014). "Anton Cooper wins with mountainbike gold". The Press. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
- ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: Sam Gaze finishes lap down in men's mountain biking". The New Zealand Herald. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ↑ "43 Māori athletes to head to Rio Olympics". Te Karere. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
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