 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Nick Yallouris | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1994-02-24)24 February 1994 (age 31)[1] Gosford, New South Wales[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Central Coast | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nick Yallouris (born 24 February 1994) is an Australiantrack cyclist.[2][3] He represented Australia in the2016 Rio Paralympics as a sighted pilot for Australian cycling Paralympian,Matthew Formston.[3]
Yallouris was born on 24 February 1974 inGosford,New South Wales.[3] Yallouris currently resides inChittaway Point on theNSW Central Coast.[3] He is aBicycle mechanic by trade.[3]
Yallouris has had a passion for bicycles since a young age.[3] He is from aBMX background and was introduced totrack cycling in 2010.[3] In 2015, he won the madison and came third in the elite scratch race and elite time trial at the 2015Australian National Track Championships.[2] Yallouris was then selected to join the Australian Paralympic Cycling Team.[4] His debut for Australia in the Para-cycling team was at the 2015UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in the Netherlands where he paired up with Commonwealth Games medallist Paul Kennedy. They finished sixth with a time of (1:04.274). At the Rio Paralympics, Yallouris will be the pilot for Formston. They train up to 13 times per week.[3]
