Brett Lancaster


Brett Lancaster 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 Cycling at the [2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit|team pursuit] in world record-breaking time of 3:58.233.
He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal 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

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Track

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