Michael Hepburn

Michael Hepburn

Michael Hepburn (2015)
To person
Date of birth	17th August 1991
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
To the team
Current team	Mitchelton-Scott
Team (s)
2010–2011 2012–2017 2018–	Team Jayco-AIS Orica GreenEdge Mitchelton-Scott
Most important successes
Olympic games 2016 - team pursuit 2009 World Champion - Single Pursuit (Juniors) 2010 World Champion - Team Pursuit 2011 World Champion - Team Pursuit 2013 World Champion - Individual Pursuit 2013 World Champion - Team Pursuit
Last updated: August 30, 2020

Michael Hepburn (born August 17, 1991 in Brisbane ) is an Australian track and road cyclist.

Athletic career

Michael Hepburn won the 2009 Australian Track Cycling Championships in Adelaide, the junior competitions in the singles pursuit , the team pursuit and in the omnium . In the single pursuit, he set a new junior world record. At the Junior World Championships in Moscow he was world champion in the single pursuit and second in the team pursuit. In the elite class, Hepburn was successful in the team pursuit in Melbourne and Beijing at the Track Cycling World Cup 2009/2010 . In 2010 he became the Australian Master in Omnium. At the 2010 World Track Cycling Championships in Ballerup , Hepburn was world champion in team pursuit.

On the road, Michael Hepburn won a stage in the Tour of Tasmania in 2008 and in 2009 he was successful in two parts of the Tour of the Murray River. From 2010 he drives for the Australian team Jayco-Skins . In his first year there, he was national champion in road racing in the U23 class.

In 2013 Hepburn became world champion in the team pursuit in Minsk , together with Glenn O'Shea , Alexander Morgan and Alexander Edmondson as well as in the single pursuit.

In 2016 Michael Hepburn was nominated for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and together with Alexander Edmondson , Jack Bobridge and Sam Welsford won the silver medal in the team pursuit. In the same year he and his Orica-BikeExchange team came third in the team time trial at the road world championships .

successes

train

2009

• Australian Champion - Singles Pursuit (Juniors)
• Australian Champion - Team Pursuit (Juniors) with Jordan Kerby , Mitchell Mulhern and Thomas Richards
• Australian Champion - Omnium (Juniors)
• World Champion - Single Pursuit (Juniors)
• World Championship Team Pursuit (Juniors) with Luke Durbridge , Peter Loft and Dale Parker
• Track Cycling World Cup in Melbourne - team pursuit with Rohan Dennis , Luke Durbridge and Cameron Meyer

2010

• World Champion - Team Pursuit with Jack Bobridge , Rohan Dennis and Cameron Meyer
• Commonwealth Games - one's pursuit
• Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Jack Bobridge , Cameron Meyer and Dale Parker )
• Oceania Champion - one's pursuit
• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jack Bobridge , Leigh Howard and Cameron Meyer )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Beijing - team pursuit with Luke Durbridge , Leigh Howard and Travis Meyer
• Australian champion - Omnium
• Track Cycling World Cup in Melbourne - Team Pursuit (with Jack Bobridge , Leigh Howard and Cameron Meyer )

2011

• World Champion - Team Pursuit with Jack Bobridge , Rohan Dennis and Luke Durbridge
• UCI Track World Championships 2011 - Single Pursuit

2012

• Australian champion - one's pursuit
• World Champion - Team Pursuit with Glenn O'Shea , Rohan Dennis , Jack Bobridge

2013

• Australian champion - one's pursuit
• World Champion - Individual Pursuit

2015

• Track Cycling World Cup in Cambridge - Team Pursuit (with Glenn O'Shea , Jack Bobridge and Alexander Edmondson )

2016

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Alexander Edmondson , Jack Bobridge and Sam Welsford )
• World Champion - Team Pursuit with Sam Welsford , Miles Scotson , Callum Scotson , Alexander Porter and Luke Davison

Street

2010

• Australian Champion - Road Race (U23)
• Team time trial Thuringia round trip

2011

• one stage Tour of Norway
• Team time trial International Tour of Thuringia (U23)
• two stages Tour de l'Avenir
• World Championship - Individual Time Trial (U23)

2013

• World Championship - Team Time Trial

2014

• Australian Champion - Individual Time Trial
• one stage Tour of Qatar (EZF)
• Giro d'Italia team time trial
• World Championship - Team Time Trial

2015

• Oceania Champion - Individual Time Trial
• Giro d'Italia team time trial

2016

• World Championship - Team Time Trial

2017

• one stage of the Bay Cycling Classic

2018

• two stages of the Hammer Sportzone Limburg

2019

• Team time trial Tirreno-Adriatico
• Hammer Chase Hammer Limburg
• Team time trial Czech Cycling Tour

2020

• Team time trial Czech Cycling Tour

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	154	160	150	122	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-	-	117	146
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

Commons : Michael Hepburn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Michael Hepburn in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Michael Hepburn in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Michael Hepburn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )