Brett Lancaster

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 , and rode for 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 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. 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 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
References
External links
1979 births
Living people
Australian male cyclists
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Australian Giro d'Italia stage winners
Olympic cyclists for Australia
Olympic gold medalists for Australia
Cyclists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Sportspeople from Shepparton
Cyclists from Victoria (state)
Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
Olympic medalists in cycling
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Australian track cyclists
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)