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Oarsome Foursome Olympic rowing great Nick Green is Cycling Australia’s new chief executive.
Green’s appointment on Tuesday morning comes a week after former world cricket boss Malcolm Speed took over as CA president.
Most recently, Green was also chef de mission of Australia’s London Olympics team.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist has also worked for the last six years at the Victorian Major Events Company.
CA said in a media release that Green was chosen from more than 100 applicants.
“I am absolutely delighted to be appointed as the new CEO of Cycling Australia, an organisation with a rich history and a very exciting future,” Green said.
He takes over from Melinda Tarrant, who had been acting chief executive since May.
She stepped in for Adrian Anderson, the former AFL football operations manager, who was appointed to the financially crippled organisation late last year.
Although the sport is booming, CA was deep in crisis when Orica-GreenEDGE team owner Gerry Ryan took over as president and Anderson stepped in as interim chief executive.
Ryan and Anderson oversaw a complete overhaul of CA governance and administration.
The body is still heavily in debt, but its finances were shored up last week with a $2m loan.
The Australian Sports Commission has put up $1.5m of the loan and the rest has come from CA’s member states and Mountain Bike Australia.
Speed heads a CA board that consists almost entirely of directors with business and legal experience, rather than cycling backgrounds.
Green will start on October 20, while the final major appointment of the new-look CA will be a marketing manager.
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