Luke Roberts

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 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, , 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 , 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

Under-17 National Road Championships

1994 Junior World Track Championships

3rd Individual pursuit 1995 Junior World Track Championships

Junior National Track Championships

1996

1998

Track World Cup 1st Individual pursuit 1st Madison 1st Team pursuit

1999 National Track Championships

1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup 1st Individual Pursuit overall Track World Cup rankings 2nd Individual Pursuit Track World Cup 2000

2001 1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under 2002

1st Overall Tour of Tasmania 2003

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 Overall Brandenburg-Rundfahrt 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour 2004

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

2012 7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 2013 1st Prologue Istrian Spring Trophy 5th Poreč Trophy