Mitchell Docker (born 2 October 1986) is an Australian former

road racing cyclist 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 ...

, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2021. In May 2021, Docker announced that he would retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2021 season.

Career

He was born in

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, Australia. He joined Australian Junior Road Team in 2003 and joined Drapac Porsche in 2006. He joined the team for the 2012 season, and remained with the team up until the end of the 2017 season. For 2018, Docker joined . He has a podcast called Life in the Peloton, in which he talks about being a professional cyclist.

Major results

;2005 : 8th 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 ...

;2007 : 1st Stage 3

Tour de Hokkaido The Tour de Hokkaido is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Hokkaido, Japan since 1987 as part of the UCI Asia Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle spo ...

;2008 : 1st Stage 5

Tour de East Java The Tour de East Java is a professional road bicycle racing stage race, that was held in East Java, Indonesia from 2005 to 2014. The race was sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race as part of the UCI Asia Tou ...

: 2nd Drie Zustersteden : 6th Overall

Tour de Langkawi The Tour de Langkawi is a multiple stage bicycle race held in Malaysia. It is named after the archipelago Langkawi, where the first edition started and finished. The race has been held annually since 1996, primarily in February. It usually co ...

;2009 : 2nd

Halle–Ingooigem Halle–Ingooigem is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competi ...

: 5th

Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt ( en, Tour of Old Town Nuremberg) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held each September in the old town In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Alth ...

;2010 : 1st Stage 3

Route du Sud The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...

: 4th Overall

Delta Tour Zeeland Delta Tour Zeeland was a road bicycle stage race held annually in June in Zeeland, Netherlands. In 2008, the race was organized as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour as the organizers of the one-day race Delta Profronde and of the OZ Wielerweeken ...

::1st Stage 1 : 5th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen ;2011 : 6th

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the Tou ...

;2013 : 1st Bay Classic Series, Williamstown ;2014 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia ;2015 : 9th Overall Bay Classic Series ;2016 : 4th

Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic The Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic (known as Veenendaal–Veenendaal from 1985 until 2006 and The Dutch Food Valley Classic from 2007 until 2013) is a semi classic professional road cycling race in the Netherlands starting and finishing in the town ...

;2017 : 4th

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 ...

: 9th

Dwars door Vlaanderen Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, Across Flanders)'' is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI ...

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Mitchell Docker profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Docker, Mitchell 1986 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists from Melbourne