Dylan Casey
Dylan Casey| Personal information |
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| Full name |
Dylan Casey |
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| Born |
(1971-04-13) April 13, 1971
Walnut Creek, California |
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| Discipline |
Road |
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| Role |
Rider |
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| Professional team(s) |
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| 1996 |
Higher Gear Spinery |
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| 1997 |
Plymouth-Elsworth |
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| 1998 |
Shaklee |
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| 1999 - 2002 |
US Postal Service |
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Infobox last updated on
5 January 2011 |
Dylan Casey (born April 13, 1971 in Walnut Creek, California) is a retired American professional cyclist, who rode for U.S. Postal Service alongside Lance Armstrong. His career began in 1990 and ended in 2003. Over that time, Casey won 12 major races with a team or on his own. He also competed in the Sydney Olympics and won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. He is a 2 time Professional National Time Trial Champion and in 1999 won National Championships for both the Time Trial and Individual Pursuit; one of only 3 Americans to ever do so.[1] Casey served as a Product Manager at Google,[2] (2003-2011) during which time he helped design their social offering Google+ as well as their famous black bar. Casey left Google for Path in early December 2011. He joined Yahoo! as a Senior Director of Consumer Platforms in May, 2013.[3]
From Casey's team card, U.S. Postal Service "Dylan Casey maybe best known for his prowess on the road these days, but he's also quite accomplished on the track. In 1998, Casey became just the third U.S. cyclist in history to win national championships in both disciplines, winning the time trial event in the National Road Championships and the pursuit event at the National Track Championships.
In 2000, Casey became an Olympian when he went to the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Unfortunately, an injury kept him out of actually competing. The year before he won a gold medal in individual pursuit at the 1999 Pan Am Games.
Casey has stage wins from the 1997 Tour of Ohio and 89er Stage Race and the 1998 Tour of Tucson, which he also won overall. In 1999, Casey came in third overall at the Tour of the Netherlands, sixth at the First Union Invitational and competed at the Tour of Spain. Stage wins in 2000 included one each at the Redlands Classic, the Tour of Luxembourg, and the Four Days of Dunkerque.
Born and raised in California, Casey graduated from Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, CA in 1989. He then went on graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.S. in communications information systems in 1994.
- 2000
- Olympic Games (Sydney): USA team member
- 1st - World Cup #2 (Cali, Colombia - track): individual pursuit; 3rd, team pursuit
- 1st - Stage Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st - Stage Tour of Luxembourg
- 1st - Stage of Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 5th - Stage Three Days of Panne
- 5th - U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Road Cycling (Jackson, Miss.) road race
- 9th - Four Days of Dunkirk (France- op U.S. rider)
- 12th -Mercury Sea Otter Classic (Monterey, Calif.)
- UCI World Track Cup rankings: sixth, individual pursuit
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- 1999
- 1st - Pan American Games (Winnipeg, Canada): individual pursuit (track)
- 4th - Pan American Games (Winnipeg, Canada): individual time trial
- 2nd - Redlands (Calif.) Bicycle Classic
- 2nd - Stage of Tour of the Netherlands
- 3rd - Tour of the Netherlands (top.U.S. rider)
- 6th - First Union Invitational
- 11th - Redlands (Calif.) Bicycle Classic
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- 1998
- 1st - USCF National Road Cycling Championships (Cincinnati, OH): individual time trial
- 1st - EDS National Track Cycling Championships (Frisco, TX): individual pursuit;
- 3rd - EDS National Track Cycling Championships (Frisco, TX): team pursuit
- 1st - Tour of Tucson
- 1st - Berkeley (Calif.) Road Race
- 1st - EDS Track Cup #1 (Carson, CA): individual pursuit
- 3rd - EDS Track Cup #1 (Carson, CA): points race
- 5th - Nevada City (Calif.) Cycle Classic
- 8th - World Track Cycling Championships (Bordeaux, France), individual pursuit
- 11th - Tour de ‘Toona (PA)
- 46th - World Road Cycling Championship (Valkenburg, The Netherlands)
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- 1997
- 1st - USPRO Criterium sprint
- 1st - Tour de Town
- 1st - Tour of Ohio
- 3rd - First Union Grand Prix
- Two stage wins - 89er Stage Race (OK)
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- 1996
- 1st - Cat’s Hill Criterium
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- 1995
- 4th - National Amateur Points Series
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- 1993
- 1st - National Collegiate Road Cycling Championships (Boston): team time trial
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