Brett Lancaster OAM (born 15 November 1979) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016. Born in Shepparton, Victoria, Lancaster started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993. He spent four years riding for Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo before moving to Team Milram in July 2006. In 2009 and 2010 he rode for Cervélo TestTeam,[3] and rode for Garmin–Cervélo in 2011.[4]
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| Full name | Brett Daniel Lancaster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Burt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 November 1979 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Ineos Grenadiers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rider type | Prologue specialist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2003–2005 | Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Team Milram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Cervélo TestTeam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Garmin–Cervélo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | GreenEDGE[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2016– | Team Sky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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His greatest successes as a road cyclist were winning the prologue of the Giro d'Italia, and thus wearing the race general classification leader's pink jersey. He set a time of 1' 20" for the 1.15-kilometre (0.71-mile) race against the clock, the shortest prologue in the 88-year history of the event. Brett Lancaster is the first member of the Italian registered team, Ceramica Panaria–Navigare, to ever claim the pink jersey.
He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Bradley McGee, and Luke Roberts) in world record-breaking time of 3:58.233.
He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List.[5] He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[6]
Lancaster retired from cycling after the 2015 season, and moved to become a directeur sportif for Team Sky in 2016.[7]
Major results
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edit- 1996
- 1st
Junior race, National Criterium Championships - 1997
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Criterium
- 1st
- 2001
- 1st Stage 9 Herald Sun Tour
- 2002
- 1st Ronde van Overijssel
- 4th Mi-Août 4
- 2003
- 6th Overall International Tour of Rhodes
- 2004
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Langkawi
- 2005
- 1st Prologue Giro d'Italia
- 2nd Paris–Camembert
- 3rd Gran Premio Città di Misano – Adriatico
- 8th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
- 2006
- 4th Grand Prix de Rennes
- 2007
- 3rd Eindhoven Team Time Trial
- 6th Down Under Classic
- 2008
- 1st Prologue Deutschland Tour
- 9th Firenze–Pistoia
- 2009
- 2nd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 2010
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of California
- 2013
- 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
- Tour of Slovenia
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 2nd
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 2014
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
- 2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 8th Vuelta a La Rioja
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
Track
edit- 1997
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships - National Junior Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Track time trial
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2nd Team sprint
- 1st
- 1998
- 1st
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games - UCI Track World Cup Classics, Victoria
- 1st Team pursuit
- 3rd
Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 1999
- Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup Classics
- 1st Frisco
- 1st Cali
- 1st
- 2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2000
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2001
- 2nd Team pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2002
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2003
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2nd Madison, National Track Championships
- 2004
- 1st
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
References
edit- ^ "Lancaster to ride for GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "Orica-GreenEDGE (OGE) – AUS". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ Gerrans out as Lancaster named to help Sastre defend title
- ^ Ryan, Barry (1 September 2010). "Garmin confirm six more signings from Cervelo for 2011". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ It's an honour
- ^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Brett Lancaster retires from racing, joins Sky as sport director". VeloNews.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
External links
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- Brett Lancaster at UCI
- Brett Lancaster at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Brett Lancaster at ProCyclingStats
- Brett Lancaster at Cycling Quotient
- Brett Lancaster at CycleBase
