Luke Durbridge

Luke Durbridge

Durbridge at the 2013 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name	Luke Durbridge
Nickname	Turbo Durbo
Born	(1991-04-09) 9 April 1991 Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Orica–GreenEDGE
Discipline	Track and road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time Trialist
Professional team(s)
2010–2011	Team Jayco-Skins
2012–	GreenEDGE
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 2 TTT stage (2014, 2015) Stage races Circuit de la Sarthe (2012) Tour du Poitou-Charentes (2012) Single-Day Races and Classics Under-23 World Time Trial Championships (2011) Duo Normand (2012, 2013) National Road Race Championships (2013) National Time Trial Championships (2012, 2013) National Under-23 Time Trial Championships (2011)
Medal record Competitor for  Australia Road bicycle racing World Championships 2011 Copenhagen U-23 time trial 2010 Melbourne U-23 time trial Track cycling World Championships 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit Competitor for Orica–GreenEDGE Road bicycle racing World Championships 2013 Tuscany Team time trial 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial
Infobox last updated on 3 June 2014

Luke Durbridge (born 9 April 1991) is an Australian road and track cyclist specialising in the individual time trial, road races, and various track cycling events.^[2][3] On the road he rides for the Australian Orica–GreenEDGE team.^[4] As well as winning the 2012 Australian National Time Trial Championships, Durbridge won both the time trial and the Australian National Road Race Championships in 2013. As a result, he became the first rider to win both titles in the same year at an elite level,^[5] Jonathan Hall had previously won both in 1997 but not at an elite level.^[6]

Early career

Durbridge was born in Greenmount, Western Australia, and started cycling at 14 years of age, competing in triathlons. In 2009 he became the World Junior Individual Time Trial Champion at the UCI U19 Road World Championships in Moscow, Russia, also winning gold in the World Junior Madison Championship at the UCI U19 Track World Championships that same year. In 2010 he became the youngest ever medal winner in the U23 Individual time trial event of the UCI Road World Championships.

Professional road career

Durbridge joined the GreenEDGE team ahead of the 2012 season, which coincided with him being dropped from the Australian track team.^[7][8] After winning the under-23 national time trial title in 2011, Durbridge became the elite national champion in January 2012,^[9] beating team-mate and two-time defending champion Cameron Meyer by almost seven seconds. His first professional win came in April 2012, taking the overall title at the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe despite being left with only two team-mates for the final stage.^[10] In June he unexpectedly won the prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné, beating Bradley Wiggins and world time trial champion Tony Martin.^[11] He subsequently finished fifth in the Eneco Tour before taking his second general classification win of the year at the 2.1-category Tour du Poitou-Charentes.^[12]

Career highlights

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References

External links

Media related to Luke Durbridge at Wikimedia Commons

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team pursuit 1993: Australia (Brett Aitken, Stuart O'Grady, Billy Shearsby, Tim O'Shannessy) 1994: Germany (Guido Fulst, Andreas Bach, Jens Lehmann, Danilo Hondo) 1995: Australia (Bradley McGee, Stuart O'Grady, Rodney McGee, Tim O'Shannessy) 1996: Italy (Adler Capelli, Cristiano Citton, Andrea Collinelli, Mauro Trentini) 1997: Italy (Cristiano Citton, Mario Benetton, Adler Capelli, Andrea Collinelli) 1998: Ukraine (Alexander Symonenko, Sergiy Matveyev, Oleksandr Fedenko, Olexandr Klimenko) 1999: Germany (Robert Bartko, Jens Lehmann, Daniel Becke, Guido Fulst) 2000: Germany (Guido Fulst, Sebastian Siedler, Daniel Becke, Jens Lehmann) 2001: Ukraine (Alexander Symonenko, Sergeï Tscherniowsky, Lyubomyr Polatayko, Oleksandr Fedenko) 2002: Australia (Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Stephen Wooldridge, Luke Roberts) 2003: Australia (Graeme Brown, Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Luke Roberts) 2004: Australia (Ashley Hutchinson, Luke Roberts, Peter Dawson, Stephen Wooldridge) 2005: Great Britain (Steve Cummings, Rob Hayles, Paul Manning, Chris Newton) 2006: Australia (Peter Dawson, Matthew Goss, Mark Jamieson, Stephen Wooldridge) 2007: Great Britain (Geraint Thomas, Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins) 2008: Great Britain (Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins) 2009: Denmark (Casper Jørgensen, Jens-Erik Madsen, Michael Færk Christensen, Alex Rasmussen, Michael Mørkøv (qualifying round only)) 2010: Australia (Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn, Cameron Meyer) 2011: Australia (Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn, Luke Durbridge) 2012: Great Britain (Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke, Geraint Thomas, Andrew Tennant (qualifying round only)) 2013: Australia ( Glenn O'Shea, Alexander Edmondson, Mitchell Mulhern, Alexander Morgan) 2014: Australia ( Glenn O'Shea, Alexander Edmondson, Luke Davison, Miles Scotson (qualifying round only)) 2015: New Zealand ( Pieter Bulling, Dylan Kennett, Alex Frame, Marc Ryan)