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

1997 National Junior Road Championships

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 Stage 4

2014 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia

8th Vuelta a La Rioja 2015 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia

Track

1997

National Junior Track Championships

2nd Team pursuit 2nd Team sprint 1998

UCI Track World Cup Classics, Victoria

1999 Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup Classics

2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships 2000 National Track Championships 2nd Individual pursuit 2nd Team pursuit 2001 2nd Team pursuit, National Track Championships 2002

2003

2nd Madison, National Track Championships 2004