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Wade Bootes is an Australian professional "Mid/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX)

BMX

Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...

and Mountain Bike (MTB) racer whose prime competitive years are from 1995 to 2003 in BMX and 1999 to 2004 in MTB. Usually goes by the moniker "Bootsie" or "Bootsey", an obviously diminutive of his surname. During his mountain bike career he also picked up the nickname "Thunder from Down Under".

Racing career

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Started Racing: 1981 in Toowoomba, Queensland

Toowoomba, Queensland

Toowoomba is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city...

Australia at age 7.

Sanctioning Body:

First race result:

First win (local):

First sponsor:

First national win:

Turned Professional: November 1993

First Professional race result:

First Professional win:

First Junior Pro* race result:

First Junior Pro win:

First Senior Pro** race result:

First Senior Pro win:

Retired: Still Active

Height & weight at height of his career Ht:5'8" 173 cm Wt:~180-190 lbs. 86 kg

Professional

Lowey Axles/Kovachi Wheels/Crisp: Mid 1994-August 1994
American Bicycle Association (ABA)/Kovachi Wheels: September 1994. Seeing his talent after immigrating to the United States and doing very well immediately, the ABA sponsored him, paying his entrance fees with Wade driving their trucks and help building their tracks in return. Sanctioning bodies sponsoring individual racers has precedent in the world of BMX. Perry Kramer
Perry Kramer
Perry Kramer is a former American "Old School" professional Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1974-1981....

and Tinker Juarez
Tinker Juarez
David Juarez is a former professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross racer and current top mountain bike racer whose prime competitive years in BMX were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to the present. Since 1986, he has been a mountain bike racer and since late 2005, competing...

were both sponsored by the National Bicycle Association (NBA) in the mid 1970's.

Poor Boy: September 1994-June 1995
Redline Bicycles: June 1995–July 1996. Reportedly Bootes was dropped from the Redline team along with teammate Matt Hadan
Matt Hadan
Matthew Merle Hadan is an American professional "Old/Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years are from 1985-1995. Nicknamed early in his career "The Master" and later "The Diesel"....

after Redline management got word that both were negotiating with Trek/Gary Fisher.

Trek Bicycles-Gary Fisher/Volkswagen: July 1996-2004

TeamWBR (Wade Bootes Racing)/Percentage: 2005 – present

Amateur

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

None (Defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

None

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

None

United States Bicycle Motocross Association
United States Bicycle Motocross Association
The United States Bicycle Association was a short lived Bicycle Motocross national sanctioning body based in Tempe, Arizona. It was founded in March 1984 by five former members of the American Bicycle Association : Rich Mann, Dave Cook, Geoff Sims, Steve Schaefer and Rod Keeling, who became the...

(USBA)

None

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

None

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

None

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

Professional

National Bicycle Association
National Bicycle Association
The National Bicycle Association , later known as the National Bicycle Motocross Association was an United States based Bicycle Motocross sports sanctioning body originally based in Soledad, California that was created by Ernie Alexander in 1973 and ceased operations as an independent body in 1981...

(NBA)

None

National Bicycle League
National Bicycle League
The National Bicycle League is a United States based Bicycle Motocross sports sanctioning body originally based in Deerfield Beach, Florida but after several moves it was based in Hilliard, Ohio...

(NBL)

None

American Bicycle Association
American Bicycle Association
The American Bicycle Association is a United States-based Bicycle Motocross sports governing body in Gilbert, Arizona created by Merl Mennenga and Gene Roden in 1977. It is the largest sanctioning body in the United States concerning BMX. It has tracks in Canada and Mexico as well as in the USA...

(ABA)

1996 Pro Cruiser World Cup Champion
1996 Pro Cruiser Grandnational Champion
1996 Pro Cruiser National No.1
2000 Pro Gold Cup East Champion
2000 National No.1 Pro.

None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

None

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

None (defunct)

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

None

Pro Series Championships and Invitationals

2000 Australia Gold Coast Super Nationals Champion

BMX product lines

1998 Trek "Wade Bootes Team Issue" Frame and fork set.

Product evaluation:

2001 Trek "TI-1 Wade Bootes Signature Frame"

Product Evaluations:

Snap BMX Magazine December 2000 Vol.7 Iss.12 No.50 pg.114 (2001 Model Year)

Significant BMX injuries

Injured a knee at the ABA Empire National in Kingston, New York
Kingston, New York
Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Ulster County, New York, USA. It is north of New York City and south of Albany. It became New York's first capital in 1777, and was burned by the British Oct. 16, 1777, after the Battles of Saratoga...

on 20 August 1994 when he slammed into a haybale (one of many used to define the race course) at high speed and thrown bodily onto the ground.
Injured a knee shortly after the 1994 ABA Fall Nationals. He was laid up until the middle of January 1995.

Buckled his left knee on a triple jump at the 1995 ABA Grandnationals in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...

in his Pro Open Semi-final. He had surgery on 29 December 1995. He was laid up for until the ABA Lumberjack National in Olympia, Washington
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...

on the weekend of 2–3 February 1996

BMX and MTB magazine covers

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Bicycle Motocross News:

None (defunct)

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

None

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

None

BMX Plus!:

April 1997 Vol.20 No.4 (7) in upper insert in second behind leader Greg Romero. Unidentified racers in background. in upper right inser freestyler Jason Pope. In bottom insert various standing pegs. Main Image: four freestyle bicycles.
January 1998 Vol.21 No.1

Total BMX:

None (defunct)

Bicycles and Dirt:

None (defunct)

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

November/December 1996 Vol.3 Iss.6 No.13 (66) ahead of Alan Foster (9) (Snap)

Twenty BMX:

BMX World:

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL membership publication under two different names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA membership publication under three different names):

BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles

"Texas Road Trip" Snap BMX Magazine May/June 1996 Vol.3 Iss.3 No.10 pg.46 One of four separate mini interviews of two fellow pro racers Jason Carnes, John Purse
John Purse
John Eric Purse is a former American professional "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer...

and "Poor Boy" company owner Steev Inge residing in the American state of Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

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Rolling Stone Magazine interview and pictorial in the October 28, 1999 issue.
"A Day In The Life...Wade Bootes" Transworld BMX July 2001 Vol.8 Iss.6 No.57 pg.62 One of three subarticles with a description and timeline of a typical day of Wade Bootes (March 19, 2001) along with two other BMXers having similar profies: Freestyler Jay Miron and Streetstyler Dave Young.

Miscellaneous and Trivia

In 1996 Wade Bootes became the first foreign born competitor to win an ABA National title when he became Pro Cruiser National No.1. Due to a rule that the ABA had that was still enforced in 1995 that forbade non US citizens from winning an American title French citizen Christophe LeVeque was disqualified from winning the 1995 ABA National No.1 title, despite him winning the most points. The ABA had abolished the rule by the beginning of the 1996 season.

MTB Racing career

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Started Racing:

Sanctioning Body:

First race result:

Retired: Still Active

Professional

Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA)

2006 Australian MTNX National Champion

National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)

2002 Dual Slalom Champion

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)

1999 Dual Slalom World Cup Champion
2000 Gold Medal Dual Slalom World Champion
2000 Bronze Medal Dual Slalom World Cup Champion
2001 Dual Slalom World Cup Champion
2001 Bronze Medal Dual Slalom World Cup Champion

Pro Series Championships and Invitationals

2003,2004 Jeep King of the Mountain World Professional Champion

Notable accolades

Voted 2000 Australian Cyclist of the Year in both BMX & MTB.
Voted 2002 Australian Cyclist of the Year in both BMX & MTB.
Voted 2003 Australian Cyclist of the Year in BMX.

Significant MTB injuries

While competing in the snow mountain bike event at the January 1999 ESPN Winter X Games in Colorado he suffed an attack of High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
High altitude pulmonary edema is a life-threatening form of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema that occurs in otherwise healthy mountaineers at altitudes typically above ....

(HAPE) due to the high altitude. HAPE is potentially fatal. He was told by a physician to rest for two weeks.
Suffered a minor separated shoulder during the dual slalom event of the first round of the World Cup in Maribor, Slovania in early June 2001.
Broke right collar bone at the 2006 MTB World Championships in Rotorua, New Zealand during qualifying rounds on 23 August 2006. Stayed overnight at a Rotorua hospital.

Racing habits and traits

In October 2004 Wade Bootes became one of the first BMX racers to be suspended from the sport for taking the banned substances amphetamine
Amphetamine
Amphetamine or amfetamine is a psychostimulant drug of the phenethylamine class which produces increased wakefulness and focus in association with decreased fatigue and appetite.Brand names of medications that contain, or metabolize into, amphetamine include Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat,...

and methamphetamine
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...

after a drug test result came back positive for those performance enhancing drugs:

"Bootes banned for six months.

Australia's bike star Wade Bootes has been suspended for six months after testing positive to a banned stimulant. Bootes, a serious contender on the MTB 4-Cross and BMX circuits,tested positive for a banned stimulant at the Mont Sainte Anne Mountain Bike World Cup in Canada earlier this year. The 30-year-old from Queensland has contested the result, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport imposed the ban on Friday. Bootes is a former world champion in the now-defunct mountain bike discipline of dual slalom and a former Australian mountain bike and BMX cyclist of the year."

He denied taking the drug intentionally:

Bootes denies intentionally taking stimulant:

"I have tested positive to a banned stimulant following my worst result for the season at a race in Canada in June. I am totally against performance enhancing drugs in sport and any form of drug abuse. I always have been and I always will be. I did not intentionally take any banned or illegal drug before the event in Canada.

"The Australian Cycling Anti Doping Policy, like the policies of most countries, does not distinguish between intentional use of banned substances and unintentional use. Thus I was found guilty of an infraction of Cycling Australia's Anti Doping Policy.

"Thankfully the Court of Arbitration for Sport accepted that I did not intentionally take any banned substance . My 6 month suspension reflects that finding! I have to "wear" the ban, and I will. I have learnt a valuable lesson out of all of this and I will never again put myself in a position where this can happen again.

"I would like for my unfortunate experience to be a warning to all athletes to understand the rules of the Anti Doping Policy and to be aware of all the banned substances and not to accept any food or drink from people that they do not know.

"I do not wish for anyone else to be put in the same position which I have been, unknowingly and unintentionally taking a banned substance and being suspended due to the rules and regulations of the Anti Doping Policy.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2004/oct04/oct13news2 ----October 13, 2004 Cyclingnews.com article.

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