Luke Roberts

Luke Roberts

Personal information
Full name	Luke Roberts
Born	25 January 1977 (1977-01-25) Adelaide, Australia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	71 kg (160 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team Saxo Bank
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Pursuit specialist/Time Trialist
Professional team(s)
2002–2004 2005–2007 2008–2009 2010 2011–	Team ComNet Team CSC Team Kuota Team Milram Saxo Bank-SunGard
Major wins
Olympic Team Pursuit (2004)
Medal record Competitor for Australia Track cycling Olympic Games Gold Athens 2004 4000 m team pursuit
Infobox last updated on 23 January 2012

Luke Roberts (born 25 January 1977) is an Australian racing cyclist specialising in both track cycling and road bicycle racing, on Team Saxo Bank for road 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 a 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 2005–2007, for the remainder of the season.

Cycling career

1993

1st U-17 National Individual Pursuit Champion

1st U-17 National Sprint Champion

1st U-17 National Time Trial Champion

1st U-17 National Team Time Trial Champion

1994

1st Junior Teams Pursuit World Champion

1995

1st Junior Individual Pursuit World Champion

1st Junior Teams Pursuit World Champion

1st Junior National Individual Pursuit Champion

1st Junior National Teams Pursuit Champion

1st Junior National Elimination Race Champion

1st Junior National Points Race Champion

1st Junior National Time Trial Champion

1996

1st National Teams Pursuit Champion

1998

1st Teams Pursuit 1998 Commonwealth Games

1st National Teams Pursuit Champion

1st Individual Pursuit Track World Cup

1st Madison Track World Cup

1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup

2nd Individual Pursuit 1998 Commonwealth Games

1999

1st National Individual Pursuit Champion

1st National Teams Pursuit Champion

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

1st Prologue U-23 Giro del Veneto

1st Stage 4 U-23 Giro del Veneto

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

4th Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

7th Stage 1 Tour de Romandie

7th Stage 18 Tour de France

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

2nd Stage 5

5th Stage 15 Tour de France

2011

10th Overall Tour Down Under

1st Mountains classification