Cameron Meyer
.JPG) Meyer at the 2015 Brabantse Pijl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 January 1988 Perth, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Dimension Data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009–2011 | Garmin–Slipstream | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | GreenEDGE[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Team Dimension Data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cameron Meyer (born 11 January 1988) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, formerly riding for UCI ProTeam Team Dimension Data.
Career
Born in Viveash, Western Australia, Meyer started cycling at the age of 13 in 2001 and first represented his country at the World Junior Track Championships in 2005. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2]
Meyer won his first senior World Championship in the Points Race in Pruszków, Poland. In 2009 he was selected to ride the Giro d'Italia. He won the time-trial event at the 2010 Australian National Road Race Championships.
Meyer's younger brother Travis Meyer is also a professional racing cyclist, and was one of Orica-GreenEDGE's first signings alongside Cameron and fellow Australian Jack Bobridge.[3] After four seasons with Orica–GreenEDGE, in October 2015 Meyer announced that he would be joining Team Dimension Data for the 2016 season, alongside fellow Australians Nathan Haas and Mark Renshaw.[4]
Meyer announced his departure from Team Dimension Data on 14 June 2016; for personal reasons of an undisclosed nature.[5] After a short break, he decided to enter the Six Day London track race with Callum Scotson and placed third overall.[6] He subsequently competed for Austrialia at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where he took two golds in the points race and as part of the Australian team pursuit squad, and rode for the Australian national team on the road during 2017, winning the Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen and scoring top five finishes in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the Herald Sun Tour. In August 2017 Orica–Scott announced that Meyer would rejoin them on a three-year contract from 2018, with a focus on winning the madison at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics.[7]
Career achievements
Major results
Track
- 2005
- 1st
Junior National Madison Championships - 2006
- Junior World Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit - 1st Madison
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- Junior National Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 1st
- 2008
- 1st Los Angeles, Points race
- 2009
- World Championships
- 1st Points race
- 2nd
Madison - 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2010
- World Championships
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 1st
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch race
- 1st
- 2011
- World Championships
- 1st Madison
- 2nd Points race
- 1st
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Madison
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 1st National Madison Championships
- World Cup
- 1st Madison
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2012
- 1st World Points Race Championships
- 2016
- 2nd Madison (with Callum Scotson) (Glasgow), UCI Track World Cup
- 3rd Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
- 1st National Madison Championships (with Sam Welsford)
- 2017
- World Championships
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Madison race (with Callum Scotson)
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st Points Race
- 1st Team Pursuit
- 2nd Individual Pursuit
- 1st
Road
- 2007
- 1st
Overall Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stages 2 & 5
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland
- 2008
- 1st Overall Tour of Japan
- 3rd
Time trial, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships - 2010
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Tour of Oman
- 2011
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st
Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 1st Overall Tour de Perth
- 2012
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 2013
- 1st
Road race, Oceania Road Championships - 1st National Criterium Championships
- 1st
Mountains classification Circuit de la Sarthe - 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
- 5th Overall Tour of California
- 5th Overall Tour of Turkey
- 10th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 2014
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 2015
- 1st Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 1st
Sprints classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
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Combativity award Stage 1 Vuelta a España - 2016
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2017
- 1st Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen
- 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 4th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Rijsenhout Critérium
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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| Giro d'Italia |
DNF | 137 | 136 | — | — | DNF | — | — |
| Tour de France |
— | — | — | — | 130 | — | — | — |
 Vuelta a España |
— | — | — | DNF | — | DNF | DNF | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ↑ "Bobridge, Meyer brothers first Australian signings for GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Australian cycling team GreenEdge sign young cyclists Cameron and Travis Meyer and Jack Bobridge". The Courier-Mail. Australian Associated Press. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ↑ "News shorts: Meares aiming high for record-breaking Rio Olympics". cyclingnews.com. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cameron-meyer-leaves-dimension-data-citing-personal-reasons/
- ↑ "Six Day London 2016: Day 6 Results | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ↑ "Cameron Meyer returns to the WorldTour with Orica-Scott". cyclingnews.com. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cameron Meyer. |
- Official website
- Profile on Cycling Australia website
- Cameron Meyer at Cycling Archives
- Cameron's Managing Agent contact details
| UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's points race | |
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