Dylan Casey Explained

Dylan Casey
Fullname:	Dylan Casey
Birth Date:	1971 4, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Walnut Creek, California
Discipline:	Road
Role:	Rider
Proyears1:	1996
Proteam1:	Higher Gear Spinery
Proyears2:	1997
Proteam2:	Plymouth-Elsworth
Proyears3:	1998
Proteam3:	Shaklee
Proyears4:	1999 - 2002
Proteam4:	US Postal Service

Dylan Casey (born April 13, 1971, in Walnut Creek, California) is a retired American professional cyclist, who rode for 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]

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

Major results

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

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

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)

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)

1996 1st - Cat’s Hill Criterium

1995 4th - National Amateur Points Series

1993 1st - National Collegiate Road Cycling Championships (Boston): team time trial

Notes and References

1. Web site: :: Dylan Casey Online :: . 2009-03-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090216013628/http://dylancasey.com/biography.cfm . 2009-02-16 . dead .
2. Web site: Dylan Casey - My view of the World. Tumblr. 10 March 2024.
3. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dylan-casey/0/138/2b8 LinkedIn Profile