Brett Lancaster
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Brett Lancaster (born November 15, 1979 in Shepparton, Victoria) is a professional cyclist from Australia, who started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993. He spent four years riding for Ceramica Panaria-Navigare before moving to Team Milram in July 2006.
His greatest successes as a road cyclist has been 1st in the 2005 Prologue of the Giro d'Italia, and thus wearing the race leaders pink jersey (maglia rosa). He set a time of 1min20sec for the 1150m race against the clock, the shortest prologue in the 88 year history of the event. Brett Lancaster is the first member of his Italian registered team, Ceramiche Panaria, to ever claim the 'maglia rosa'.
He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Bradley McGee, and Luke Roberts) in world record breaking time of 3:58.233.
He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List.
[edit] Career highlights
2005 1st Prologue Giro d'Italia ITA; 2nd Paris-Camembert Lepetit FRA.
2004 1st 2004 Summer Olympics Team Pursuit GRE - WR; 1st Stage 3 Tour de Langkawi MAS; 2nd Stage 2 Volta a Portugal POR.
2003 1st Team Pursuit World Titles GER - WR; 2nd Prologue Tour of Rhodes GRE 2nd Australian Madison Title (with L Roberts)
2002 1st Teams Pursuit World Titles DEN
2001 2nd Teams Pursuit Australian Titles VIC
2000 2nd Ind Pursuit Australian Titles NSW; 2nd Teams Pursuit Australian Titles NSW
1999 1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup USA; 1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup COL 2nd Teams Pursuit World Titles GER 2nd Ind Pursuit Australian?? Titles WA
1998 1st Teams Pursuit 1998 Commonwealth Games MAS; 1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup CAN
1997 1st Teams Pursuit World Jnr Titles RSA; 1st Ind Pursuit U19 Australian Titles Tas; 1st Time Trial U19 Australian Titles Tas; 1st Road Time Trial U19 Australian Titles SA; 2nd Criterium U19 Australian Titles SA; 2nd Teams Pursuit U19 Australian Titles Tas; 2nd Olympic Sprint U19 Australian Titles Tas;
1996 1st Criterium U19 Australian Titles NSW
1995 2nd Road Time Trial U17 Australian Titles SA; 2nd Ind Pursuit U17 Australian Titles Qld; 2nd Teams Pursuit U17 Australian Titles Qld;
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| Riders on Team Milram |
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Igor Astarloa | Mirko Celestino | Alessandro Cortinovis | Volodymyr Dyudya | Sergio Ghisalberti | Ralf Grabsch | Andriy Hryvko | Denis Haueisen | Matej Jurco | Christian Knees | Brett Lancaster | Mirco Lorenzetto | Martin Müller | Alberto Ongarato | Alessandro Petacchi | Enrico Poitschke | Elia Rigotto | Fabio Sabatini | Fabio Sacchi | Björn Schröder | Sebastian Schwager | Carlo Scognamiglio | Marcel Sieberg | Sebastian Siedler | Niki Terpstra | Marco Velo | Erik Zabel |
| Manager |
| Gianluigi Stanga |
