# Brett Lancaster

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, and rode for Garmin–Cervélo in 2011.
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. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
Lancaster retired from cycling after the 2015 season, and moved to become a directeur sportif for Team Sky in 2016.

## 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