Tyler Hamilton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tyler Hamilton
Occupation	Cyclist
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1971(1971-03-01)
Age	53
Birthplace	Marblehead
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Pisces

Tyler Hamilton Biography

Tyler Hamilton is one of the most popular and richest Cyclist who was born on March 1, 1971 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States. American cyclist who won the was awarded the 2004 Olympic silver medal was stripped away from him following a test positively for steroids.

He first won gold during the 2004 Olympics in which athlete He won gold originally at the 2004 Olympics where swimmer Michael Phelps won 6 gold medals. won six gold medals.

Hamilton was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and attended Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he started cycling. After graduating in 1990, he attended the University of Colorado at Boulder as a ski racer and received a BA in economics in 1994 (although it has been alleged that he did not graduate). A back injury (two broken vertebrae while mountain bike training on ski jump) at the University of Colorado developmental ski team in September 1991 ended his skiing, and he switched to cycling.

He turned pro in 1995 for the Montgomery Bell Cycling team which later became the U.S. Postal Service cycling team and raced for them in the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tour de France. Hamilton protected Lance Armstrong in the mountains, and was on Armstrong’s first three Tour de France winning Postal squads and quickly grew to stardom. Hamilton acted as a scout in individual time trials, riding as hard as possible to provide time-split comparisons for Armstrong. During this time he won the 1999 Danmark Rundt and the 2000 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, winning stages 4 and 5.

He was married Lindsay Hamilton in December of 2011.

Tyler Hamilton Net Worth

Tyler Hamilton is one of the richest Cyclist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tyler Hamilton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He took part for the first time in Olympics in 2000, but failed to win the distinction of a medal.

He was a participant at his first Tour de France every year from 1999 to 2002.

Tyler Hamilton (born March 1, 1971) is an American former professional road bicycle racer. He is the only American rider to win one of the five Monuments of cycling, taking Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2003. Hamilton became a professional cyclist in 1995 with the US Postal Service cycling team. He was a teammate of Lance Armstrong during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tours de France, where Armstrong won the general classification. He was a key asset for Armstrong, being a very good climber as well as time-trialist. Hamilton appeared at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2004, he won a gold medal at the individual time trial. The first doping test after his Olympic victory gave a positive result, but because the backup sample was frozen, no doping offence could be proven. After he failed further doping tests at the 2004 Vuelta a España, Hamilton was suspended for two years from the sport.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Tyler Hamilton Dating?

According to our records, Tyler Hamilton married to Haven Hamilton. As of December 1, 2023, Tyler Hamilton’s is not dating anyone.

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At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Hamilton won the gold medal in the men’s individual time trial. That medal was placed in doubt on September 20, 2004, after he failed a test for blood doping (receiving blood transfusions to boost performance) at the Olympics. Two days after the announcement of his positive test at Athens, the IOC announced Hamilton would keep his medal because results could not be obtained from the second sample. The Athens lab had frozen the backup, which made it impossible to repeat the test. The Russian Olympic Committee appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport to give Hamilton’s medal to Russian silver medalist Viatcheslav Ekimov. However, on June 27, 2006, the court rejected the request.

Facts & Trivia

Tyler Ranked on the list of most popular Cyclist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tyler Hamilton celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.

On May 18, 2005, he appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but, after allowing Hamilton to gather evidence, the court dismissed his appeal. Hamilton claimed the UCI-sanctioned test was insufficiently validated (and may have returned a false positive result) and that some of the agencies involved had concealed documents that would support his case. He also maintained that, even if foreign cells were present, they were natural and not the result of a transfusion.

What does Tyler Hamilton do now?

It’s been nearly a decade since Hamilton stepped away from the sport. In that time he found bikes again, but not the drop-bar, go-fast sort. He bikepacks, rides gravel and mountain bikes, enjoys the outdoors. He started a coaching company, and is working toward a job in finance.

How old is Tyler Hamilton?

51 years (March 1, 1971)

Where is Frankie Andreu now?

Cycling is a cleaner sport since Frankie Andreu and his wife, Betsy, helped expose Lance Armstrong and the doping scandal in 2006. Andreu, 50, still lives in Michigan. He’s raced in nine Tour de France events, and the 1988 and 1996 Olympic Games.

How rich is Lance Armstrong?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Armstrong was worth approximately $125 million at the peak of his career. That has dropped considerably, but thanks to Uber, Lance Armstrong’s net worth is approximately $50 million today.

Who gave Tyler Hamilton his first performance enhancing drug?

Tyler Hamilton says Lance Armstrong gave him an illegal blood booster at his house before the 1999 Tour de France and the two teammates compared notes on using performance-enhancing drugs as far back as 1998.