Brett Lancaster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Brett Lancaster

Racing cyclist

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1979

Place of Birth: Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Profession: sport cyclist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Brett Lancaster

  • Brett Lancaster (born 15 November 1979) is a former professional racing cyclist from Australia, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Mitchelton–Scott.
  • Born in Shepparton, Victoria, Lancaster started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993.
  • He spent four years riding for Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo before moving to Team Milram in July 2006.
  • In 2009 and 2010 he rode for CervĂ©lo TestTeam, and rode for Garmin–CervĂ©lo in 2011.His greatest successes as a road cyclist has been placing 1st in the 2005 Prologue of the Giro d'Italia, and thus wearing the race general classification leader's pink jersey.
  • He set a time of 1' 20" 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 the Italian registered team, Ceramiche Panaria, to ever claim the pink jersey. 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.
  • He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.Lancaster retired from cycling after the 2015 season, and moved to become a directeur sportif for Team Sky in 2016.

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