Luke Durbridge

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Luke Durbridge Road cycling
Luke Durbridge (2017)
Luke Durbridge (2017)
To person
Date of birth April 9, 1991
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Train / street
To the team
Current team Mitchelton-Scott
function driver
Team (s)
2010–2011
2012–2017
2018– 		Team Jayco-AIS
Orica GreenEdge
Mitchelton-Scott
Most important successes

2008: Jersey rainbow.svgWorld Champion - Team Pursuit (Juniors)
2009: Jersey rainbow.svgWorld Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
2009: Jersey rainbow.svgWorld Champion - Madison (Juniors)
2011: Jersey rainbow.svgWorld Champion - Team Pursuit
Jersey rainbow.svgWorld Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)

Last updated: July 2, 2017

Luke Durbridge (born April 9, 1991 in Perth ) is an Australian track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Luke Durbridge became the 2007 Australian Junior Time Trial Champion. In the 2008 season he was national junior track cycling champion in the team pursuit . At the junior track cycling world championships in Cape Town he won the gold medal in the team pursuit and bronze in the points race . He was successful in the team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in Melbourne . On the road, Durbridge won a stage in the Mezies Classic in 2008.

In 2011 Durbridge was ahead of the Dane Rasmus Christian Quaade and his compatriot Michael Hepburn time trial world champion in the U23 class at the road world championships in Copenhagen . He had also won the Australian championship title in his age group in the time trial before Hepburn and Jay McCarthy .

After 2011, Durbridge increasingly focused on road cycling . He won four national titles in road racing and time trial by 2017. In 2013 and 2014 he was runner-up in the team time trial world championship, and in 2016 he finished third with his team. In 2014 he became oceanic road racing champion.

On the first stage of the Tour de France 2017 , Luke Durbridge fell on a wet road in the individual time trial. Although he started on the second stage, he had to give up because of his injuries. At the Australian Road Championship the following year, he fell and suffered a concussion and a broken collarbone . In 2019 he became national champion in the individual time trial for the third time.

successes

Street

2007

  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)

2009

  • Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • OceaniaChampionJersey.png Oceanic Road Championships - Road Racing
  • Giro d'Italia team time trial
  • silver World Championship - Team Time Trial

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

train

2008

2009

2011

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 141 DNF 109 - - - 78
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 122 151 112 DNF 118 109
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Luke Durbridge  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Durbridge forced out of the Tour de France. In: sbs.com.au. July 2, 2017, accessed July 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Durbridge suffers concussion and broken collarbone in national champs crash. In: Cycling News. Retrieved January 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Durbridge, Luke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian track and road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth