Cameron Meyer
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 Cameron Meyer At the 2011 Tour Down Under |
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| Full name | Cameron Meyer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 1988 Perth, Australia |
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| Current team | GreenEDGE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road & Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time Trialist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009–2011 2012– |
Garmin-Slipstream GreenEDGE |
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| Infobox last updated on 21 January 2012 |
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Cameron Meyer (born 11 January 1988 in Viveash, Western Australia) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, riding for UCI ProTeam GreenEDGE.[1] He 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.[2]
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.
[edit] Career highlights
- 2005
- 1st
Madison Junior Australian National Track Championships - 2006
- 1st
Pursuit Junior World Track Championships - 1st Madison Junior World Track Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit Junior World Track Championships
- 1st Pursuit Junior Australian National Track Championships
- 1st Points Race Junior Australian National Track Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit Junior Australian National Track Championships
- 1st Madison Junior Australian National Track Championships
- 2007
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland
- 1st Overall Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 5
- 2008
- 1st Los Angeles, Points race
- 1st Overall Tour of Japan
- 3rd
U-23 World Time Trial Championship - 2009
- 1st Points Race, World Track Championships
- 2nd
Madison World Track Championships - 2nd Team Pursuit World Track Championships
- 2010
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Points Race, World Track Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit, World Track Championships
- 1st Madison, World Track Championships
- 1st
Team Pursuit, Commonwealth Games - 1st Points Race, Commonwealth Games
- 1st Scratch Race, Commonwealth Games
- 3rd Tour of Oman, overall standings
- 2011
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st National Madison Champion
- 1st Madison, Track World Cup
- 1st Team Pursuit, Track World Cup
- 1st Madison, Oceania Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit, Oceania Championships
- 1st Madison World Track Championships
- 2nd Points race World Track Championships
- 1st
Overall Tour Down Under[3]
- 1st
Youth classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
[edit] References
- ^ "Bobridge, Meyer brothers first Australian signings for GreenEdge". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 5 August 2011. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bobridge-meyer-brothers-first-australian-signings-for-greenedge. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics
- ^ "Tour Down Under 2011: Cameron Meyer triumphs in first WorldTour race of season while Ben Swift wins final stage". Daily Telegraph. 2011-01-23. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/8277108/Tour-Down-Under-2011-Cameron-Meyer-triumphs-in-first-WorldTour-race-of-season-while-Ben-Swift-wins-final-stage.html. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
[edit] External links
- Profile on Cycling Australia website
- Cameron Meyer profile at Cycling Archives
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