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Brett Lancaster

Lancaster in 2015

Personal information
Full nameBrett Daniel Lancaster
NicknameBurt
Born15 November 1979 (age 45)
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Team information
Current teamIneos Grenadiers
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
Role
Rider typePrologue specialist
Professional teams
2003–2005Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo
2006–2008Team Milram
2009–2010Cervélo TestTeam
2011Garmin–Cervélo
2012–2015GreenEDGE[1][2]
Managerial team
2016–Team Sky
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 TTT stage (2013)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2005)
2 TTT stages (2014, 2015)

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]

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]

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
  1. ^ "Lancaster to ride for GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Orica-GreenEDGE (OGE) – AUS". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  3. ^ Gerrans out as Lancaster named to help Sastre defend title
  4. ^ Ryan, Barry (1 September 2010). "Garmin confirm six more signings from Cervelo for 2011". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  5. ^ It's an honour
  6. ^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Brett Lancaster retires from racing, joins Sky as sport director". VeloNews.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2016.