Scott G. Sunderland (born 28 November 1966) is an Australian former professional cyclist, who is a now a sports manager and consultant.[2]
Sunderland was born in Inverell, a country town in northern New South Wales. He worked double shifts in the Inverell abattoirs to fund his early European racing career.
Until he retired at the end of 2004, Sunderland was Australia's longest serving professional cyclist, and placed highly in many of the cycling world's greatest events.[citation needed]
As a racer, Sunderland had some injuries and setbacks, the most memorable being when he was struck by a car driven by his former director, Cees Priem, during the 1998 Amstel Gold race.[3]
Sunderland recovered and the final few years of his career saw a resurgent Scott Sunderland.[citation needed]
In September 2008, Sunderland was recruited by the Cervélo TestTeam owner Gerard Vroomen to form his newly announced Professional Cycling Team.[citation needed] 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre followed Sunderland in his move.[citation needed]
Early 2009 Sunderland was headhunted by British Cycling and BC High Performance Manager Dave Brailsford and appointed Sports Manager to help put together a new professional British road cycling team, financially backed by BSkyB.[citation needed]
In 2010, Team Sky entered its first year of competition with Scott Sunderland in the position of Senior Sports Director.[4]
In February 2010 the team got its first semi-classic victory when Juan Antonio Flecha won the Belgian semi-classic Omloop Het Nieuwsblad with a solo break.[5][6][7][8] Sunderland left Team Sky in May 2010, citing that he wanted to spend more time with his family.[9]
Sunderland took up a role as a Race Director for the National Road Series, Australia's premier domestic road cycling competition, in 2013[10]
In 2019 Sunderland took on the role of general race director of the Flanders Classics in Belgium.[11]
Major results
Juniors Under 16
NSW State Champion (Road Race)
2nd Teams Pursuit (Track) Australian National Championships
2nd Teams Time-trial (Road) Australian National Championships
Juniors Under 18
NSW State Champion (Individual National Road Race)
Australian National Champion 50 km Teams Time-trial (Road)
Australian National Champion Teams Pursuit (Track)
Oceania Games
1st Individual Road Race, 1st Time Trial, 2nd teams pursuit (Track), 3rd 30 km point score (Track)
1985 Amateur
NSW State Champion, 50 km point score (Track)
2nd 4000m teams pursuit (Track) Australian National Championships
1986 Amateur
1st Australian Individual Senior National Road Championships (Aged 19 - racing elite)
1990
Out due to a knee injury in the early part of the season
