Luke Plapp

Lucas Plapp is an Australian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam. He is an alumnus of Maribyrnong Sports Academy, class of 2018.

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Career

Junior career

In August 2018, Plapp won the points race as well as the Madison with Blake Quick at the UCI Junior Track World Championships in Aigle, Switzerland. Plapp also placed 2nd to Remco Evenepoel in the time trial at the 2018 UCI Junior Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria. Plapp is part of the AusCycling High Performance Podium Academy and was selected to compete in the Team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where they won the bronze medal.

Professional career

Plapp rode as a stagiaire for UCI WorldTeam in 2021 before joining them full-time in 2022. On 16 January 2022, he won the Australian National Road Race Championships after chasing down and passing James Whelan with under left, before finishing solo. Plapp made his World tour debut in February 2022 at the UAE Tour where he rode in support of teammate Adam Yates who finished 2nd overall. Plapp himself managed his first World Tour top 5 on the 7th and final stage to Jebal Hafeet in which he finished in 5th place, 16 seconds behind winner Tadej Pogačar.

Major results

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Road

;2017
;2018
;2019
;2020
;2021
;2022
;2023
;2024
;2025
;2026

General classification results timeline

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

Track

;2018
;2019
;2021
;2022