Michael Hepburn (born 17 August 1991) is an Australian track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a two-time Olympics silver medalist. From

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, Hepburn started competitively cycling at 14 years of age after making the change from triathlons.

Sporting achievements

Some of Hepburn's notable achievements include winning the Under 23 road race in the Australian Open Road Championships when he was just 18, and winning the teams pursuit in the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Denmark. In 2009 he broke the world record in the U19 3000m Individual Pursuit at the 2009 Australian Track Championships before going on to break the same world record two more times to win at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Russia. He competed at the

2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

where he won a bronze medal in the Individual pursuit and a gold in the Team pursuit. It was announced on 8 November 2011 that Hepburn would join the team for their inaugural season in 2012. In 2012, he won the silver medal in the men's team pursuit at the

2012 Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. He competed in the men's road race and the men's time trial at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

, finishing in 6th in the time trial. He won silver in the same event at the

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. In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the

2018 Tour de France The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. The -long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in western France, and concluding on 29 July with the ...

Major results

Track

;2009 : UCI World Junior Championships ::1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Individual pursuit ::2nd Silver medal uci

Team pursuit : National Junior Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Omnium : UCI World Cup Classics ::1st Team pursuit,

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::1st Team pursuit,

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

;2010 :

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

::1st

Team pursuit ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Individual pursuit : 1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Team pursuit, UCI World Championships : 1st MaillotAustralia

Omnium,

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: 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne ;2011 : UCI World Championships ::1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Team pursuit ::3rd Bronze medal uci

Individual pursuit : Oceania Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Individual pursuit ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Team pursuit :

::2nd Team pursuit ::3rd Individual pursuit ::3rd Points race ;2012 : 2nd Silver medal olympic

Team pursuit,

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;2013 : UCI World Championships ::1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Team pursuit ::1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Individual pursuit ;2016 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit, UCI World Championships : 2nd Silver medal olympic

Team pursuit,

Road

;2009 : Tour of the Murray River ::1st Stages 11 & 12 ;2010 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Under-23 Championships : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

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: 3rd

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: 9th

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;2011 : 1st Stage 2

Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, ma ...

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents ...

::1st Prologue & Stage 4 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT)

: 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships : 2nd

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: 3rd

Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships : 6th Overall

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;2012 : 4th Time trial, National Championships ;2013 : 2nd Silver medal uci

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...

, UCI World Championships : 2nd Duo Normand (with Jens Mouris) ;2014 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Time trial, National Championships : 1st Stage 3 (

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) Tour of Qatar : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 2nd Silver medal uci

, UCI World Championships : 6th Time trial,

;2015 : 1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Time trial,

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: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 3rd Overall

Bay Classic Series The Bay Classic Series (currently running as the Lexus of Blackburn Bay Crits) is a road cycling race held annually in and around Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia. The race consists of both a men's and a women's competition over three stage ...

;2016 : 3rd Bronze medal uci

, UCI World Championships ;2017 : 1st Stage 2

: 4th Time trial, National Championships : 7th

Hong Kong Challenge The Hong Kong Challenge (officially known as the Sun Hung Kai Properties Hong Kong Challenge) is a one-day professional cycling race held annually in Hong Kong since 2017. It is part of UCI Asia Tour in category 1.1. The race was replaced with Ha ...

;2019 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

Czech Cycling Tour The Czech Cycling Tour is a multi-day road cycling race held annually in the Olomouc region in the Czech Republic. It was created in 2010 and was initially part of the UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2, but in 2015 moved up to 2.1 The Union Cycli ...

: 5th Antwerp Port Epic ;2020 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

: 4th Time trial, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hepburn, Michael 1991 births Australian track cyclists Sportsmen from Queensland Cyclists from Brisbane Australian male cyclists UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Australian Institute of Sport cyclists Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Australia Living people Olympic silver medalists for Australia Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games