Lachlan Morton

Lachlan Morton

Lachlan Morton (2014)
To person
Date of birth	2nd January 1992
nation	Australia
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	EF Pro Cycling
function	driver
Last updated: December 18, 2018

Lachlan Morton (born January 2, 1992 in Port Macquarie ) is an Australian cyclist .

Career

Lachlan Morton won the 2010 Canadian junior stage race Tour de l'Abitibi plus two stages. In 2011 he joined the Chipotle Development Team . At the end of 2012, Morton became a stagiaire at Garmin-Sharp . There he got his professional contract and drove there for another two years. During this time he won the junior competitions at the USA Pro Challenge and the Tour of Utah , where he also won a stage.

In 2015 he joined the Jelly Belly-Maxxis team. In 2016, Morton won the overall ranking of the Tour of Utah and the Tour of the Gila in the USA . In the stage races, he also added a stage.

In 2017 he moved to the South African team Dimension Data . At the 2017 California Tour , he won the junior ranking and was seventh overall. He also competed in the Vuelta a España 2017 , his first Grand Tours in his career, which he finished in 90th place. At the Tour of Austria 2018 , Morton finished fourth on the sixth stage and fifth on the eighth stage.

In 2019 he returned to EF Education First-Drapac powered by Cannondale .

successes

2010

• Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de l'Abitibi

2013

• Junior competition USA Pro Challenge
• a stage and junior competition Tour of Utah

2016

• Overall ranking and a stage Tour of the Gila
• Overall standings and one stage Tour of Utah
• one stage Tour de Hokkaidō

2017

• California Tour of the Young Talent

2019

• one stage tour of Utah

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	90	-	-

Teams

• 2011 Chipotle Development Team
• 2012 Chipotle-First Solar Development Team
• 2012 Garmin-Sharp (Stagiaire)
• 2013 Garmin Sharp
• 2014 Garmin Sharp
• 2015 Jelly Belly-Maxxis
• 2016 Jelly Belly-Maxxis
• 2017 Team Dimension Data
• 2018 Team Dimension Data
• 2019 EF Education First
• 2020 EF Pro Cycling

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Morton after first professional victory in the yellow jersey. radsport-news.com, August 9, 2013, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Morton takes off the yellow jersey with solo coup Talansky. radsport-news.com, August 8, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Morton does it on Mount Nebo at 38 degrees like three years ago. radsport-news.com, August 4, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Pohl stays with Cervelo-Bigla, Arredondo with Nippo-Vini Fantini. radsport-news.com, September 29, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Bennett is only unable to repel the attacks on the podium. radsport-news.com, May 21, 2017, accessed December 18, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Lutsenko depends on Mohoric for the last few meters. radsport-news.com, July 12, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Herman's beaming winner of the Tour of Austria. radsport-news.com, July 14, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Morton back to the EF team, Geoghegan Hart stays with Sky. radsport-news.com, November 1, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Lachlan Morton  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lachlan Morton in the ProCyclingStats.com database