Cameron Meyer

Cameron Meyer (born 11 January 1988) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2022.

Career Born in Viveash, Western Australia, Meyer started cycling at the age of 13 in 2001 and first represented his country at the World Junior Track Championships in 2005. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

Meyer won his first senior World Championship in the Points Race in Pruszków, Poland. In 2009 he was selected to ride the Giro d'Italia. He won the time-trial event at the 2010 Australian National Road Race Championships.

Meyer's younger brother Travis Meyer is also a professional racing cyclist, and was one of 's first signings alongside Cameron and fellow Australian Jack Bobridge. After four seasons with , in October 2015 Meyer announced that he would be joining for the 2016 season, alongside fellow Australians Nathan Haas and Mark Renshaw.

Meyer announced his departure from on 14 June 2016; for personal reasons of an undisclosed nature. After a short break, he decided to enter the Six Day London track race with Callum Scotson and placed third overall. He subsequently competed for Australia at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where he took two golds in the points race and as part of the Australian team pursuit squad, and rode for the Australian national team on the road during 2017, winning the Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen and scoring top five finishes in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the Herald Sun Tour. In August 2017, announced that Meyer would rejoin them on a three-year contract from 2018, with a focus on winning the madison at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2020 and 2021 he won the Australian National Road Race Championships.

Meyer retired from the sport in September 2022, after thirteen years as a professional. Meyer then became the coach for British Cycling's track women's endurance team.

Major results Road

2005 7th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships 2006 National Junior Championships 1st Road race 2nd Time trial 5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships 2007 1st Overall Tour of Tasmania 1st Stages 2 & 5 1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships 2008 1st Overall Tour of Japan

3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo 2009 2nd Time trial, National Championships 2010 1st Time trial, National Championships 3rd Overall Tour of Oman 2011 1st Time trial, National Championships 1st Overall Tour Down Under 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 4 1st Overall Tour de Perth 3rd OCBC Cycle Singapore 2012 2nd Time trial, National Championships

10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 2013 1st Road race, Oceania Championships 1st Criterium, National Championships 1st Mountains classification, Circuit de la Sarthe 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France 5th Overall Tour of California 5th Overall Tour of Turkey 10th Overall Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 1 (ITT) 2014 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia 4th Road race, National Championships 9th Overall Herald Sun Tour 2015 1st Overall Herald Sun Tour 1st Sprints classification 1st Stage 1 4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia Combativity award Stage 1 Vuelta a España 2016 2nd Road race, National Championships 2017 1st Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen 3rd Overall Rás Tailteann 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 4th Overall Herald Sun Tour 7th Overall Tour of China I 7th Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay 2018 Commonwealth Games

9th Road race 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour 2019 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali National Championships 3rd Road race 3rd Time trial 2020 1st Road race, National Championships 2021 1st Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Giro d'Italia DNF 137 136 — — DNF — — — — — DNF 111 Tour de France — — — — 130 — — — — — — — — / Vuelta a España — — — DNF — DNF DNF — — — — — —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

2005 1st Madison, National Junior Championships (with Adam O'Connor) 2006 UCI World Junior Championships

National Junior Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Points race 1st Team pursuit 1st Madison (with Travis Meyer) 2007 UCI World Cup Classics 3rd Points race, Sydney 3rd Points race, Beijing 2008 UCI World Cup Classics 1st Points race, Los Angeles 3rd Team pursuit, Copenhagen 2009 UCI World Championships

2010 UCI World Championships

Commonwealth Games

UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne 1st Madison (with Leigh Howard) 1st Team pursuit 2011 UCI World Championships

Oceania Championships 1st Madison (with Leigh Howard) 1st Team pursuit 1st Madison, National Championships (with Leigh Howard) 2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard) 2012

1st Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard) 2016 1st Madison, National Championships (with Sam Welsford) 2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Glasgow (with Callum Scotson) 3rd Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson) 2017 UCI World Championships 1st Points race 1st Team pursuit

National Championships 1st Points race 1st Team pursuit 2nd Individual pursuit 1st Madison, UCI World Cup (with Callum Scotson), Pruszków 1st Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson) 2018 UCI World Championships 1st Points race