Jack Bobridge

Jack Bobridge

Bobridge at a 2008 Olympics parade
Personal information
Nickname Bobby
Born 13 July 1989
Adelaide, Australia
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current team Team Budget Forklifts
Discipline Road and track
Role Rider
Rider type Track Endurance
Amateur team(s)
CSC Team O'Grady
Professional team(s)
2010–2011 Garmin-Transitions
2012 GreenEDGE
2013–2014 Blanco Pro Cycling
2015- Team Budget Forklifts
Major wins
National Road Race Championships (2011)

Jack Bobridge (born 13 July 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist.

Career

In May 2009, Bobridge signed with Garmin-Slipstream, with his contract starting on 1 January 2010 and had been contracted to race with the team until 2012. He left the team at the end of 2011, and joined GreenEDGE for the 2012 season.[2] Bobridge left Orica-GreenEDGE at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Blanco Pro Cycling on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.[3]

In September 2009 he won the under-23 time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.[4] In January 2011 he became the Australian National Road Race Champion with a daring solo breakaway. On 2 February 2011, he set a new world record for the track 4k individual pursuit.[5] Bobridge was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[6]

In November 2014 Bobridge was announced as part of the Team Budget Forklifts line-up for 2015 alongside fellow members of the Australian endurance track squad Luke Davison, Glenn O'Shea, Scott Sunderland and Mitchel Mulhearn, riding a domestic programme with a focus on achieving success on the track at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[7]

Bobridge won the opening stage of the 2015 Tour Down Under. He lost the overall lead on stage three but finished the race with the King of the Mountains jersey. On 31 January 2015 Bobridge attempted to break the world hour record in Melbourne. He rode 51.3 kilometres falling short of the record of 51.852 kilometres. However he did break Brad McGee's Australian national hour record of 50.3 kilometres which had stood since 2000.[8]

Palmares

Track career statistics

2006
1st Team Pursuit World Track Championships – Juniors
2007
1st Team Pursuit World Track Championships Juniors
1st National Team Pursuit Champion
1st National Madison Champion
2008
1st Team Pursuit, World Cup, Los Angeles
2009
1st National Individual Pursuit Champion
1st Individual Pursuit, Oceania Championships
1st Team Pursuit Oceania Championships
2010
1st Men's Team Pursuit World Track Championships
1st Men's individual pursuit, Commonwealth Games
3rd Men's Individual Pursuit, World Track Championships
2011
1st Men's Team Pursuit World Track Championships
1st Men's Individual Pursuit World Track Champion
1st Individual pursuit 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Ranking
2012
2nd Men's Team Pursuit Olympic games
2nd Men's Team Pursuit Track Cycling World Championships
2nd Individual Pursuit Track Cycling World Championships
2015
2nd Individual Pursuit Track Cycling World Championships

Road career statistics

2007
3rd Overall Tour of the Murray River
2009
1st U-23 World Time Trial Champion
1st U-23 National Road Race Champion
1st U-23 National Time Trial Champion
1st Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop
1st U-23 Rund um den Henninger
3rd Overall Thüringen-Rundfahrt
1st Stage 2 & 5
7th Overall Tour of Japan
1st Stage 4 & 6
2010
1st Stage 5 Eneco Tour
5th Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
2011
1st National Road Race Champion
2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
2015
1st Mountains classification Tour Down Under[9]
1st Stage 1

Grand Tour General Classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Pink jersey Giro WD - WD WD -
Yellow jersey Tour - - - - -
red jersey Vuelta - - - - -

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

References

  1. ↑ "Jack Bobridge". london2012.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Bobridge, Meyer brothers first Australian signings for GreenEdge". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 5 August 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Bobridge to Rabobank". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 18 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Bobridge wins u23 world TT title
  5. ↑ Bobridge breaks Boardman's record
  6. ↑ AIS Athletes at 2010 Commonwealth Games
  7. ↑ "Bobridge back on the track with Team Budget Forklifts". cyclingnews.com. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Woodpower, Zeb. "Bobridge misses out on Hour Record". Cycling News.
  9. ↑ "Tour Down Under: Wippert wins final stage in Adelaide". cyclingnews.com. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.

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