Brett Lancaster Explained

Brett Lancaster
Fullname:Brett Daniel Lancaster
Nickname:Burt
Birth Date:1979 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Height:1.89 m
Weight:80 kg
Ridertype:Prologue specialist
Proyears1:2003–2005
Proyears2:2006–2008
Proyears3:2009–2010
Proyears4:2011
Proyears5:2012–2015
Proteam5:[1] [2]
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Tour de France

1 TTT stage (2013)

Giro d'Italia

1 individual stage (2005)

2 TTT stages (2014, 2015)

Manageyears1:2016–
Show-Medals:no

Brett Lancaster (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 before moving to in July 2006. In 2009 and 2010 he rode for,[3] and rode for in 2011.[4]

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 1.15km (00.71miles) 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,, 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 in 2016.[7]

Major results

Road

1996
  • 1st Junior race, National Criterium Championships
    1997
  • National Junior Road Championships
  • 1st Time trial
  • 2nd Criterium
    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
  • 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

    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
    1998
  • 1st Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
  • UCI Track World Cup Classics, Victoria
  • 1st Team pursuit
  • 3rd Individual pursuit
    1999
  • Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup Classics
  • 1st Frisco
  • 1st Cali
  • 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

    Notes and References

    1. News: Lancaster to ride for GreenEdge. 21 September 2011. Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 1 January 2012.
    2. Web site: Orica-GreenEDGE (OGE) – AUS. 3 January 2014. UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. https://archive.today/20140102050656/http://62.50.72.82/UCIBWS/(S(juhnxycdwbv5tbcixhvnfyby))/Teams/detail/en/ROA/2997. 2 January 2014. dead.
    3. http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/tourdefrance/gerrans-out-as-lancaster-named-to-help-sastre-defend-title/2009/06/25/1245522914757.html Gerrans out as Lancaster named to help Sastre defend title
    4. News: Barry. Ryan. Garmin confirm six more signings from Cervelo for 2011. 1 September 2010. Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 1 January 2012.
    5. https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1057954 It's an honour
    6. http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/olympics AIS Athletes at the Olympics
    7. Web site: Brett Lancaster retires from racing, joins Sky as sport director. VeloNews.com. 24 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20151220174910/http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/12/news/brett-lancaster-retires-from-racing-joins-sky-as-sport-director_391376. 20 December 2015. dead.

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