# Luke Roberts (cyclist)

Luke Justin Roberts (born 25 January 1977) is a sports director and former Australian racing cyclist specialising in both track cycling and road bicycle racing.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he resides both in Adelaide and in Cologne, Germany. Coming from a cycle racing family, he started competitive cycling at the age of 13, and turned professional in 2002. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. and a member of the Comnet Senges team (2002–2004), and of Team CSC from 2005 to 2007. As a team and individual pursuit specialist, holding an Olympic gold medal and World record with the Australian Pursuit team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he contributes particularly to the success of his team in time trial events.
In 2003 he was awarded the title of Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia medal in the Australia Day Honours List. In 2002, 2003 and 2004 he was a World Champion Team pursuit, and won the silver medal in 2002 and 2003 for the World Individual Pursuit Championship.
At the Olympic level, Luke Roberts has competed as part of the Australian cycling team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2000 he came 9th in the Individual Pursuit at the Olympic Games. He improved his performance 4 years later in Athens, coming 5th in the Individual Pursuit. As part of the Australian pursuit team with Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, Bradley McGee, (Peter Dawson and Stephen Wooldridge were also part of the team), Roberts won gold and set a new world record for the 4000m Team Pursuit of 3mins 56.610secs, breaking their previous world record set in Stuttgart in 2003.
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games, Roberts achieved a gold medal for the Teams Pursuit, a silver medal in the Individual Pursuit, and came 8th in the Points race. Four year later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Roberts won gold in the Teams Pursuit and 4th in the Individual Pursuit. His 2010 road racing team, Team Milram, folded at the end of that season, and he signed to ride for a proposed Australian team known as Pegasus: this team, however, failed to obtain a UCI license. After riding with UniSA in the 2011 Tour Down Under, Roberts signed with Saxo Bank–SunGard, a continuation of the squad he was with from 2005 to 2007, for the remainder of the season.

## Major results
### 1993

    Under-17 National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Sprint
    Under-17 National Road Championships
       1st Individual time trial
       1st Team time trial

### 1994

    Junior World Track Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       3rd Individual pursuit

### 1995

    Junior World Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
    Junior National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Elimination race
       1st Points race
    1st Junior National Time Trial Championships

### 1996

    1st National Teams Pursuit Champion

### 1998

    1st Teams Pursuit 1998 Commonwealth Games
    1st National Teams Pursuit Champion
    Track World Cup
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Madison
       1st Team pursuit
    2nd Individual Pursuit 1998 Commonwealth Games

### 1999

    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
    1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup
    1st Individual Pursuit overall Track World Cup rankings
    2nd Individual Pursuit Track World Cup

### 2000

    1st National Individual Pursuit Champion

### 2001

    1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under

### 2002

    1st Teams Pursuit World Champion
    1st Teams Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games
    1st Overall Tour of Tasmania

### 2003

    1st Team Pursuit World Champion
    1st Individual Pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
    Giro del Veneto
       1st Prologue & Stage 4
    1st Giro del Capo
    1st Stage 5 Ringerike Grand Prix
    2nd Individual Pursuit World Titles
    2nd Overall Brandenburg-Rundfahrt
    2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour

### 2004

    1st 2004 Summer Olympic Games Team Pursuit
    1st Team Pursuit World Champion
    1st Stage 6 Tour de Normandie
    1st Stage 1 Intl Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
    9th Overall Tour Down Under

### 2005

    1st Stage 4 TTT Tour Méditerranéen
    3rd Eindhoven Team Time Trial
    6th TEAG Hainleite
    8th T-Mobile International
    10th LUK Challenge Chrono Bühl

### 2006

    1st Stage 4, 3-Länder-Tour
    3rd Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt

### 2007

    1st Eindhoven TTT
    3rd Overall Tour of Britain
    6th Overall Tour Down Under
    9th Paris–Bourges

### 2008

    1st Stage 3 Giro del Capo
    1st Stolberg-Breinig

### 2009

    1st Grenoble, Six Days

### 2010

    1st Stage 3 Tour of Murcia
    5th Overall Tour Down Under

### 2011

    10th Overall Tour Down Under
       1st Mountains classification

### 2012

    7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

### 2013

    1st Prologue Istrian Spring Trophy
    5th Poreč Trophy