Luke Justin Roberts (born 25 January 1977) is a sports director and former Australian

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cyclin ...

specialising in both

track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...

and

road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

. Born in

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater A ...

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, he resides both in Adelaide and in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

, Germany. Coming from a cycle racing family, he started competitive cycling at the age of 13, and turned professional in 2002. He was an

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of th ...

scholarship holder. and a member of the Comnet Senges team (2002–2004), and of from 2005 to 2007. As a team and individual pursuit specialist, holding an Olympic gold medal and World record with the Australian Pursuit team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he contributes particularly to the success of his team in

time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

events. In 2003 he was awarded the title of Australian Male Track Cyclist of the Year. In 2005 he was awarded the

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medal in the

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Honours List. In 2002, 2003 and 2004 he was a World Champion

Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

, and won the silver medal in 2002 and 2003 for the World

Individual Pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...

Championship. At the Olympic level, Luke Roberts has competed as part of the Australian cycling team at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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. In 2000 he came 9th in the Individual Pursuit at the Olympic Games. He improved his performance 4 years later in Athens, coming 5th in the Individual Pursuit. As part of the Australian pursuit team with Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, Bradley McGee, ( Peter Dawson and

Stephen Wooldridge Stephen Brian Wooldridge (17 October 1977 – 14 August 2017) was an Australian racing cyclist, an Olympic and four-time world champion on the track. He was born in Sydney. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. In ...

were also part of the team), Roberts won gold and set a new world record for the 4000m Team Pursuit of 3mins 56.610secs, breaking their previous world record set in Stuttgart in 2003. At the

1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 Commonwealth Games ''(Malay language, Malay: Sukan Komanwel 1998)'', officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel ke-16)'', was a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This edition is marked by sev ...

, Roberts achieved a gold medal for the Teams Pursuit, a silver medal in the Individual Pursuit, and came 8th in the

Points race A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men between 1984–2008 and for women 1996–2008. Starting in 2012, the points race is one of the omnium even ...

. Four year later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in

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, Roberts won gold in the Teams Pursuit and 4th in the Individual Pursuit. His 2010 road racing team, , folded at the end of that season, and he signed to ride for a proposed Australian team known as Pegasus: this team, however, failed to obtain a UCI license. After riding with UniSA in the 2011 Tour Down Under, Roberts signed with , a continuation of the squad he was with from 2005–2007, for the remainder of the season.

Major results

;1993 :Under-17 National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Sprint :Under-17 National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual time trial ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team time trial ;1994 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Junior Teams Pursuit World Champion ;1995 : Junior World Track Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Individual pursuit ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit :Junior National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Elimination race ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race :1st MaillotAustralia

Junior National Time Trial Championships ;1996 : 1st MaillotAustralia

National Teams Pursuit Champion ;1998 : 1st Gold medal blank

Teams Pursuit

: 1st

National Teams Pursuit Champion : Track World Cup ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Madison ::1st Team pursuit : 2nd silver medal blank

Individual Pursuit

;1999 :National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit : 1st Teams Pursuit Track World Cup : 1st Individual Pursuit overall Track World Cup rankings : 2nd Individual Pursuit Track World Cup ;2000 : 1st MaillotAustralia

National Individual Pursuit Champion ;2001 : 1st Stage 4

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI World ...

;2002 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Teams Pursuit World Champion : 1st Gold medal blank

Teams Pursuit 2002 Commonwealth Games : 1st Overall Tour of Tasmania ;2003 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Team Pursuit World Champion : 1st Individual Pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics : Giro del Veneto ::1st Prologue & Stage 4 : 1st Giro del Capo : 1st Stage 5 Ringerike Grand Prix : 2nd silver medal blank

Individual Pursuit World Titles : 2nd Overall Brandenburg-Rundfahrt : 2nd Overall

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annuall ...

;2004 : 1st Gold medal

2004 Summer Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

Team Pursuit : 1st Jersey rainbow

Team Pursuit World Champion : 1st Stage 6

Tour de Normandie Tour de Normandie is a road bicycle race held annually in the region of Normandy, France. The race started in 1939, but was not held in the periods of 1940–1955 and 1960–1980. It was originally a race for amateurs, but was opened for professi ...

: 1st Stage 1 Intl

Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

: 9th Overall

;2005 : 1st Stage 4 TTT

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: 3rd Eindhoven Team Time Trial : 6th TEAG Hainleite : 8th T-Mobile International : 10th LUK Challenge Chrono Bühl ;2006 : 1st Stage 4, 3-Länder-Tour : 3rd Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt ;2007 : 1st Eindhoven TTT : 3rd Overall Tour of Britain : 6th Overall

: 9th

Paris–Bourges Paris–Bourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent year with the length of races shortened it has become impossible to link the two cities an ...

;2008 : 1st Stage 3 Giro del Capo : 1st Stolberg-Breinig ;2009 : 1st Grenoble, Six Days ;2010 : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Murcia : 5th Overall

;2011 : 10th Overall

:: 1st

Mountains classification ;2012 :7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen ;2013 :1st Prologue Istrian Spring Trophy :5th Porec Trophy

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Luke 1977 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Australia Olympic gold medalists for Australia Cyclists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Cyclists from Adelaide Australian Institute of Sport cyclists Olympic medalists in cycling UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Cyclists from South Australia Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Australian track cyclists