Cameron Meyer

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Cameron Meyer
2018 Tour of Britain stage 2 - points leader Cameron Meyer.JPG
Meyer at the 2018 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Born (1988-01-11) 11 January 1988 (age 35)
Viveash, Western Australia, Australia
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeRoleur
Amateur team
Midland CC
Professional teams
2009–2011 Garmin–Slipstream
2012–2015 GreenEDGE [1]
2016 Team Dimension Data
2017 Mitchelton Scott
2018–2022 Mitchelton–Scott [2] [3] . [4]
Major wins
Road

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 TTT stage (2013)
Giro d'Italia
1 TTT stage (2014)

Stage races

Tour Down Under (2011)
Herald Sun Tour (2015)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships
(2010, 2011)
National Road Race Championships
(2020, 2021)
Track
Madison, World Championships (2010, 2011)
Points race, World Championships (2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018)
Team pursuit, World Championships
(2010, 2017)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Men's track cycling
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Pruszków Points race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Ballerup Points race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 Ballerup Madison
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 Ballerup Team pursuit
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Apeldoorn Madison
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Melbourne Points race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Hong Kong Points race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 Hong Kong Team pursuit
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Apeldoorn Points race
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 PruszkówTeam pursuit
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 PruszkówMadison
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2011 Apeldoorn Points race
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Hong Kong Madison
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Melbourne Madison
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Apeldoorn Madison
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Delhi Points race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 Delhi Scratch
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 Delhi Team pursuit
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Time trial

Cameron Meyer (born 11 January 1988) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2022.

Contents

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] In 2020 and 2021 he won the Australian National Road Race Championships. [11]

Meyer retired from the sport in September 2022, after thirteen years as a professional. [12] Meyer then became the coach for British Cycling's track women's endurance team. [13]

Major results

Road

2005
7th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
2006
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race
2nd Time trial
5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
2007
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Tasmania
1st Stages 2 & 5
1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland
2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships
2008
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Japan
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2009
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2010
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Time trial, National Championships
3rd Overall Tour of Oman
2011
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Time trial, National Championships
1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Tour Down Under
1st Jersey black.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 4
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Perth
3rd OCBC Cycle Singapore
2012
2nd Time trial, National Championships
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI World Championships
10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
2013
1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Road race, Oceania Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Criterium, National Championships
1st Jersey pink.svg 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 Championships
9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
2015
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Herald Sun Tour
1st Jersey green.svg Sprints classification
1st Stage 1
4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 1 Vuelta a España
2016
2nd Road race, National 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 Gold medal blank.svg 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 Championships
3rd Road race
3rd Time trial
2020
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race, National Championships
2021
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia DNF 137 136 DNF DNF 111
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 130
Jersey gold.svg/Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España DNF DNF DNF
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

2005
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison, National Junior Championships (with Adam O'Connor)
2006
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Individual pursuit
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison (with Travis Meyer)
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Points race
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison (with Travis Meyer)
2007
UCI World Cup Classics
3rd Points race, Sydney
3rd Points race, Beijing
2008
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Points race, Los Angeles
3rd Team pursuit, Copenhagen
2009
UCI World Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Points race
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Madison (with Leigh Howard)
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
2010
UCI World Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison (with Leigh Howard)
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Points race
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit
Commonwealth Games
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit
1st Gold medal blank.svg Points race
1st Gold medal blank.svg Scratch
UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne
1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
1st Team pursuit
2011
UCI World Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison (with Leigh Howard)
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Points race
Oceania Championships
1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Madison (with Leigh Howard)
1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Team pursuit
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Leigh Howard)
2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard)
2012
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Points race, UCI World Championships
1st Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard)
2016
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Sam Welsford)
2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Glasgow (with Callum Scotson)
3rd Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
2017
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Points race
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Madison (with Callum Scotson)
National Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Points race
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
1st Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
2018
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Points race
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Madison (with Callum Scotson)

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