Cameron Meyer
Cameron Meyer (born 11 January 1988) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange.[4]
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.[5]
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 GreenEDGE's first signings alongside Cameron and fellow Australian Jack Bobridge.[6] 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.[7]
Meyer announced his departure from Team Dimension Data on 14 June 2016; for personal reasons of an undisclosed nature.[8] After a short break, he decided to enter the Six Day London track race with Callum Scotson and placed third overall.[9] He subsequently competed for Australia 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, Mitchelton–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.[10]
Major results
Track
- 2005
- 1st Madison, National Junior Track Championships
- 2006
- UCI Junior Track World Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 1st Team pursuit
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 2007
- 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 3rd Points race, Sydney
- 3rd Points race, Beijing
- 2008
- 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 1st Points race, Los Angeles
- 3rd Team pursuit, Copenhagen
- 2009
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Points race
- 2nd Madison (with Leigh Howard)
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2010
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch race
- 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne
- 1st Madison
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2011
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
- 2nd Points race
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Madison
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison, National Championships
- 2012
- 1st Points race, UCI World Championships
- 2016
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Sam Welsford)
- 2nd Madison, 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow (with Callum Scotson)
- 3rd Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
- 2017
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Madison (with Callum Scotson)
- National Championships
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 1st Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
- 2018
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Points race
- 3rd Madison (with Callum Scotson)
Road
- 2005
- 7th Time trial, UCI Juniors World Championships
- 2006
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 5th Time trial, UCI Juniors World Championships
- 2007
- 1st Overall Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stages 2 & 5
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland
- 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2008
- 1st Overall Tour of Japan
- 3rd Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
- 3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
- 2009
- 2nd Time trial, National Road 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 Overall Tour de Perth
- 3rd OCBC Cycle Singapore
- 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 Criterium, National Road 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
- 4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- Combativity award Stage 1 Vuelta a España
- 2016
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2017
- 1st Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen
- 3rd Overall Rás Tailteann
- 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 4th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 7th Overall Tour of China I
- 7th Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay
- 2018
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st Time trial
- 9th Road race
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
- 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 2019
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 2020
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Giro d'Italia | DNF | 137 | 136 | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 130 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
/ Vuelta a España | — | — | — | DNF | — | DNF | DNF | — | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
---|---|
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.
- "Mitchelton-Scott finalise 25-rider roster for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- "Wins from January to October: Mitchelton-Scott men confirm roster and goals for 2020". Mitchelton–Scott. New Global Cycling Services. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- "GreenEDGE Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- 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. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
- "Cameron Meyer returns to the WorldTour with Orica-Scott". cyclingnews.com. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
External links
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- Official website
- Profile on Cycling Australia website
- Cameron Meyer at Cycling Archives
- Cameron Meyer at ProCyclingStats