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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Luke Justin Roberts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1977-01-25) 25 January 1977 (age 47) Adelaide, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Stölting-Ruhr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Pursuit specialist/Time Trialist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Team ComNet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Team CSC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Team Kuota | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Team Milram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Saxo Bank–SunGard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Stölting-Ruhr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Team Pursuit (2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Australia
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 Team CSC 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, Team Milram, 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 Saxo Bank–SunGard, 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
- 1st
Individual pursuit - 1st Sprint
- 1st
- Under-17 National Road Championships
- 1st Individual time trial
- 1st Team time trial
- 1st
- 1994
- 1st
Junior Teams Pursuit World Champion - 1995
- Junior World Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- Junior National Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Elimination race
- 1st Points race
- 1st
- 1st Junior National Time Trial Championships
- 1996
- 1st National Teams Pursuit Champion
- 1998
- 1st
Teams Pursuit 1998 Commonwealth Games - 1st National Teams Pursuit Champion
- Track World Cup
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd
Individual Pursuit 1998 Commonwealth Games - 1999
- National Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup
- 1st Individual Pursuit overall Track World Cup rankings
- 2nd Individual Pursuit Track World Cup
- 2000
- 1st National Individual Pursuit Champion
- 2001
- 1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under
- 2002
- 1st Teams Pursuit World Champion
- 1st Teams Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 1st Overall Tour of Tasmania
- 2003
- 1st Team Pursuit World Champion
- 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 Individual Pursuit World Titles
- 2nd Overall Brandenburg-Rundfahrt
- 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 2004
- 1st
2004 Summer Olympic Games Team Pursuit - 1st Team Pursuit World Champion
- 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
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 2012
- 7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 2013
- 1st Prologue Istrian Spring Trophy
- 5th Poreč Trophy
References
- "OPEN ROAD TITLES: Road back to top takes Luke Roberts to Buninyong". thecourier.com.au. 31 December 2009.
- AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- "Michael Rogers is Australia's top rider for 2003". autobus.cyclingnews.com.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luke Roberts". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- "Aussies set record in team pursuit". sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2003.
- "Start List – Santos Tour Down Under – UCI Pro Tour". Archived from the original on 11 November 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Australian male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Cyclists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists from Adelaide
- Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
- Olympic gold medalists in cycling
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Cyclists from South Australia
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Australian track cyclists
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Sportsmen from South Australia
- Australian expatriates in Germany