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Drapac Professional Cycling

Drapac Professional Cycling is revolutionary. The first of its kind in Australasia. The, currently, privately funded enterprise uses cycling as the medium to redefine the way not only athletes, but also how our society, measures success. Developed in 2004, the program aims to counteract the mono dimensional culture that defines Australian sport, a culture where athletes have a sole focus on medals or results. We instead look to create multi dimensional people, not just athletes, by placing equal emphasis on athletic, career, personal and social development.

Put simply, Drapac has developed a ground breaking model, turning Champion Athletes into Champion People.

Coupled with our internal commitment to changing the sporting landscape, we have a clear external vision of becoming 'Asia's most dominant cycling team by 2013'.

Following the commercial wave of Asia as a new force in the global economy, there is now a strong corolation with cycling's popularity within the region, with increasing cycling communities, racing programs and talented athletes. Like many of Australia's organisations, Drapac cycling is looking to build from it's Melbourne and Australian roots, and embrace this emerging frontier of the sport.

As the profile of the cycling is changing with the growth of the sport across new regions, the profile of the cycling fan changes with it. A sport with clear links to strategy, vision, commitment and passion, many organisations and their employees are increasingly embracing these ideals and aligning more workshops, team-building and marketing campaigns with the sport of cycling.

It is our belief that cycling has become a significant Business to Business marketing channel that enables a dynamic organisation to connect to their market on level that no other sport can provide. Partnering new cycling culture based business networks will enable our Team, Partners and Supporters to share the journey and benefit from relevant and constant interaction with one another.

Let the next cycle begin...

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Meet the athletes

Rhys
Pollock
Thomas
Palmer
Floris
Goesinnen
Amir
Rusli
Adam
Phelan
Darren
Lapthorne
Patrick
Drapac
Malcolm
Rudolph
William
Walker
Luke
Davison
John
Walker
Robbie
Hucker
Gordon
McCauley
Bernard
Sulzberger

Managing the team

Team Principle - Michael Drapac

As Managing Director of Drapac Group, established in 1988, I bring a vast amount of business experience and knowledge. In particular I am passionate about attention to detail, research, risk minimisation and visionary thinking. I am not only the financial support of the program but aim to provide the management team with consistently clear focus and vision of what we are looking to achieve.


Directeur Sportif - Agostino Giramondo

I have been coaching athletes and racing programs for over 30 years across Australia, Asia and Europe. Bringing the experience of representing Australia at the World Championships in Japan in 1990 and ridding 5 Herald Sun Tours, I began coaching in 1987 and have coached numerous State and National champions. In 2003-4 I was awarded the VicSport Volunteer Coach of the Year and was the State junior coach from 2002-5 and the State senior coach in 2005.


Team Manager - Jonathan Breekveldt

Coming from a background of mechanical engineering, I naturally have a systematic way of understanding a challenge. Whether discussing technical issues with our product partners or providing support and context to our Strategic Partnerships Manager, i am able to quickly resolve an issue and build arrange of solutions. Feedback of a products functionality, relevance and area's of improvement are crucial to our Partner base and something that I take personal responsibility for. Working with organisations that invest a significant amount of research into a product range, it takes a level of experience to present and discuss these minor changes in a constructive and informative format.

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Partnerships

Drapac has now been involved in Professional cycling as a team owner for over ten years. During the first few years of this period the focus was on establishing the Drapac brand within the sport. Having achieved that, we have turned our attention to opening up the world we have created within cycling to like-minded partners.

As a company Drapac is all about creativity, innovation and doing things differently. At Drapac Cycling, we have the same philosophy. We take a completely different approach to Cycling and offer partners the ability to make their sponsorship 'come alive' - to create something people will remember and gravitate towards - and have it stand out in a crowded marketplace.

We try to open up the possibilities, not restrict them. We create value streams for partners over and above those normally associated with Cycling, allowing them to exploit rights in interesting and unusual ways.

We are a premium sponsorship opportunity, dedicated to working with a small number of partners - with the relationships based on creativity and innovation - so that they gain maximum benefit from the cooperation.

Partners

Events

Hometown - Sydney

Born - 14/03/80

Claim to fame
1st Tour of Taiwan 2012
1st Stage One, Herald Sun Tour 2011
1st Melbourne to Warnambool 2010

Hometown - Wagga Wagga

Born - 28/06/90

Claim to fame
1st Stage Five, New Zealand Cycle Classic 2013
1st Tour de Okinawa 2012
1st Stage One, Tour of Okinawa 2011
1st Prologue, Tour of Okinawa 2009 & 2010
Junior Kilo Track World Champion 2007

Hometown - Canberra

Born - 19/11/77

Claim to fame
1st Stage Ten, Tour de Langkawi 2009.
1st Stage One, Tour of Gironde 2009.

Hometown - Melbourne

Born - 07/04/88

Claim to fame
2nd Australian Championships 2006
1st Victorian Criterium Championship 2006

Hometown - Kalgoorlie

Born - 21/01/87

Claim to fame
11th MTB World Championships 2009
5th Australian Road Championships 2011

Hometown - Noorder Koggenland

Born - 30/10/83

Claim to fame
1st Melbourne to Warnambool 2012
1st Stage Four, Tour of Taiwan 2011
3rd IWT Oetingen 2010
1st TTT Brixia Tour 2009

Hometown - Terengganu

Born - 05/02/87

Claim to fame
Olympic Games Road Race 2012
1st Final Grand Prix of Malaysia 2010
3rd, Best Asian, Best Malaysia Tour of Malaysia 2010

Hometown - Terengganu

Born - 29/04/91

Claim to fame
Malaysia national champion 2010
8th Commonwealth Games 2010 point race

Hometown - Canberra

Born - 23/08/91

Claim to fame
2nd Stage One, Le Tour de Langkawi 2012
1st Stage One, Tour of Taiwan 2011
2nd Stage One, Tour of Okinawa 2011
3rd Stage Three, Tour of Hainan 2011
U23 Winner, Tour of Taiwan and Tour of Okinawa 2011

Hometown - Perth

Born - 18/11/89

Claim to fame
1st Stage Six, Tour of Taiwan 2011
1st Stage Nine, Tour of Taiwan 2011
1st Stage Three, Giro Friuli 2010

Hometown - Melbourne

Born - 04/03/83

Claim to fame
2nd Stage Five, Le Tour de Langkawi 2012
1st Cologne Classic Road Race 2008
1st Australian Open Road Championship 2007

Hometown - Melbourne

Born - 15/04/91

Claim to fame
4th Australian Madison Championship 2009
5th Australian National Scratch Race 2009

Hometown - Brisbane

Born - 03/06/86

Claim to fame
1st Stage 1, Tour of Toowoomba 2011
Sprint Jersey, Tour of Toowoomba 2011
1st Vault Criterium 2011

Hometown - Maryborough

Born - 01/04/89

Claim to fame
1st Stage Eleven, Tour of the Murray River 2012

Hometown - Melbourne

Born - 31/10/85

Claim to fame
1st Tour of Gippsland 2012
1st Stage Six, Tour of Tasmania 2012
Victorian State Road Race Champion 2013

Hometown - Bendigo

Born - 09/06/80

Claim to fame
1st OCBC Singapore Criterium 2009
1st Grafton Inverell 2008
2nd Melbourne to Warrnambool 2006

Hometown - Sydney

Born - 08/04/90

Claim to fame
1st Stage 2, Jayco Herald Sun Tour 2012
1st Australian National Road Series 2012
1st Tour of the Murray River 2012
1st Goulburn to Sydney 2012

Hometown - Melbourne

Born - 17/03/87

Claim to fame
Vuelta A Espana 2010

Hometown - Bendigo

Born - 13/03/90

Claim to fame
U23 Nation Cross Country Mountain Bike Champion 2012
2nd Stage Four, Tour of the Great South Coast 2012

Hometown - Auckland

Born - 09/03/72

Claim to fame
1st Stage Five, Tour of the Great South Coast 2012
1st Stage Ten, Tour of the Murray River 2012
NZ National Time Trial Champion 2010
NZ National Road Race Champion 2009

Hometown - Tasmania

Born - 05/12/83

Claim to fame
1st Stage Three, Jayco Bay Cycling Classic 2010
1st Tour of Tasmania 2009
1st Stage Five, Tour of Utah 2009
National Criterium Champion 2008