Brett Lancaster

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Brett Lancaster

Lancaster in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Brett Daniel Lancaster
Nickname	Burt
Born	(1979-11-15) 15 November 1979 (age 45) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Team information
Current team	Ineos Grenadiers
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider (retired) Directeur sportif
Rider type	Prologue specialist
Professional teams
2003–2005	Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo
2006–2008	Team Milram
2009–2010	Cervélo TestTeam
2011	Garmin–Cervélo
2012–2015	GreenEDGE[1][2]
Managerial team
2016–	Team Sky
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 TTT stage (2013) Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2005) 2 TTT stages (2014, 2015)
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team pursuit World Championships 2002 Ballerup Team pursuit 2003 Stuttgart Team pursuit Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team pursuit Men's road bicycle racing Representing Orica–GreenEDGE World Championships 2013 Tuscany Team time trial 2014 Ponferrada Team time trial

Brett Lancaster OAM (born 15 November 1979) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016. Born in Shepparton, Victoria, Lancaster started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993. He spent four years riding for Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo before moving to Team Milram in July 2006. In 2009 and 2010 he rode for Cervélo TestTeam,^[3] and rode for Garmin–Cervélo in 2011.^[4]

His greatest successes as a road cyclist were winning the prologue of the Giro d'Italia, and thus wearing the race general classification leader's pink jersey. He set a time of 1' 20" for the 1.15-kilometre (0.71-mile) race against the clock, the shortest prologue in the 88-year history of the event. Brett Lancaster is the first member of the Italian registered team, Ceramica Panaria–Navigare, to ever claim the pink jersey.

He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Bradley McGee, and Luke Roberts) in world record-breaking time of 3:58.233.

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List.^[5] He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[6]

Lancaster retired from cycling after the 2015 season, and moved to become a directeur sportif for Team Sky in 2016.^[7]

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• Brett Lancaster at UCI
• Brett Lancaster at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Brett Lancaster at ProCyclingStats
• Brett Lancaster at Cycling Quotient
• Brett Lancaster at CycleBase