Luke Roberts

Luke Roberts

Roberts at Revolution 25, in 2009.
Personal information
Full name	Luke Roberts
Born	(1977-01-25) 25 January 1977 Adelaide, Australia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Current team	Stölting-Ruhr
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Pursuit specialist/Time Trialist
Professional team(s)
2002–2004	Team ComNet
2005–2007	Team CSC
2008–2009	Team Kuota
2010	Team Milram
2011–2012	Saxo Bank–SunGard
2013–2014	Stölting-Ruhr
Major wins
Olympic Team Pursuit (2004)
Medal record Competitor for  Australia Track cycling Olympic Games Athens 2004 4000 m team pursuit
Infobox last updated on 14 March 2013

Luke Roberts (born 25 January 1977) is an Australian racing cyclist specialising in both track cycling and road bicycle racing, on Stölting-Ruhr for road racing.

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he resides both in Adelaide and in Cologne, Germany.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] 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,^[4] breaking their previous world record set in Stuttgart in 2003.^[5]

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,^[6] 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

References

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)