Australian racing cyclist
Cameron Meyer Born (1988-01-11 ) 11 January 1988 (age 36) Viveash, Western Australia , AustraliaHeight 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) Weight 70 kg (154 lb) Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type Roleur Midland CC
2009–2011 Garmin–Slipstream 2012–2015 GreenEDGE [1] 2016 Team Dimension Data 2017 Mitchelton Scott 2018–2022 Mitchelton–Scott [2] [3] .[4]
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 )
Cameron Meyer (born 11 January 1988) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist , who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2022.
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]
UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's points race
UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's madison
1995–96: Italy (Silvio Martinello , Marco Villa )
1997: Spain (Joan Llaneras , Miguel Alzamora )
1998: Belgium (Etienne De Wilde , Matthew Gilmore )
1999: Spain (Joan Llaneras , Isaac Gálvez )
2000: Germany (Stefan Steinweg , Erik Weispfennig )
2001: France (Robert Sassone , Jérôme Neuville )
2002: France (Jérôme Neuville , Franck Perque )
2003: Switzerland (Franco Marvulli , Bruno Risi )
2004: Argentina (Walter Pérez , Juan Curuchet )
2005: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish , Rob Hayles )
2006: Spain (Isaac Gálvez , Joan Llaneras )
2007 : Switzerland (Bruno Risi , Franco Marvulli )
2008 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish , Bradley Wiggins )
2009 : Denmark (Michael Mørkøv , Alex Rasmussen )
2010 –11 : Australia (Leigh Howard , Cameron Meyer )
2012 : Belgium (Kenny De Ketele , Gijs Van Hoecke )
2013 : France (Vivien Brisse , Morgan Kneisky )
2014 : Spain (David Muntaner , Albert Torres )
2015 : France (Bryan Coquard , Morgan Kneisky )
2016 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish , Bradley Wiggins )
2017 : France (Morgan Kneisky , Benjamin Thomas )
2018 –19 : Germany (Roger Kluge , Theo Reinhardt )
2020 –21 : Denmark (Michael Mørkøv , Lasse Norman Hansen )
2022 : France (Donavan Grondin , Benjamin Thomas )
2023 : Netherlands (Jan-Willem van Schip , Yoeri Havik )
UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team pursuit
1990s
1993: Australia, Brett Aitken , Stuart O'Grady , Billy Shearsby , Tim O'Shannessey
1994: Germany, Guido Fulst , Andreas Bach , Jens Lehmann , Danilo Hondo
1995: Australia, Bradley McGee , Stuart O'Grady , Rodney McGee , Tim O'Shannessey
1996: Italy, Adler Capelli , Cristiano Citton , Andrea Collinelli , Mauro Trentini
1997: Italy, Cristiano Citton , Mario Benetton , Adler Capelli , Andrea Collinelli
1998: Ukraine, Alexander Symonenko , Sergiy Matveyev , Oleksandr Fedenko , Oleksandr Klymenko
1999: Germany, Robert Bartko , Jens Lehmann , Daniel Becke , Guido Fulst
2000s
2000: Germany, Guido Fulst , Sebastian Siedler , Daniel Becke , Jens Lehmann
2001: Ukraine, Alexander Symonenko , Serhii Cherniavskyi , Lyubomyr Polatayko , Oleksandr Fedenko
2002: Australia, Peter Dawson , Brett Lancaster , Stephen Wooldridge , Luke Roberts
2003: Australia, Graeme Brown , Peter Dawson , Brett Lancaster , Luke Roberts
2004: Australia, Ashley Hutchinson , Luke Roberts , Peter Dawson , Stephen Wooldridge
2005: Great Britain, Steve Cummings , Rob Hayles , Paul Manning , Chris Newton
2006: Australia, Peter Dawson , Matthew Goss , Mark Jamieson , Stephen Wooldridge
2007 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Geraint Thomas , Paul Manning , Bradley Wiggins
2008 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Geraint Thomas , Paul Manning , Bradley Wiggins
2009 : Denmark, Casper Jørgensen , Jens-Erik Madsen , Michael Færk Christensen , Alex Rasmussen , Michael Mørkøv
2010s
2010 : Australia, Jack Bobridge , Rohan Dennis , Michael Hepburn , Cameron Meyer
2011 : Australia, Jack Bobridge , Rohan Dennis , Michael Hepburn , Luke Durbridge
2012 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Peter Kennaugh , Steven Burke , Geraint Thomas , Andy Tennant
2013 : Australia, Glenn O'Shea , Alex Edmondson , Mitchell Mulhern , Alexander Morgan
2014 : Australia, Glenn O'Shea , Alex Edmondson , Luke Davison , Miles Scotson
2015 : New Zealand, Pieter Bulling , Dylan Kennett , Alex Frame , Marc Ryan
2016 : Australia, Sam Welsford , Michael Hepburn , Callum Scotson , Miles Scotson , Alexander Porter , Luke Davison
2017 : Australia, Sam Welsford , Cameron Meyer , Alexander Porter , Nick Yallouris , Kelland O'Brien , Rohan Wight
2018 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Kian Emadi , Ethan Hayter , Charlie Tanfield
2019 : Australia, Sam Welsford , Leigh Howard , Alexander Porter , Cameron Scott , Kelland O'Brien
2020s
2020 : Denmark, Lasse Norman Hansen , Julius Johansen , Frederik Rodenberg , Rasmus Pedersen
2021 : Italy, Liam Bertazzo , Simone Consonni , Filippo Ganna , Jonathan Milan , Francesco Lamon
2022 : Great Britain, Ethan Hayter , Oliver Wood , Ethan Vernon , Daniel Bigham
2023 : Denmark, Niklas Larsen , Carl-Frederik Bévort , Lasse Norman Leth , Rasmus Pedersen , Frederik Rodenberg
Riders in italics took part in the qualifying rounds.
Australian National Road Race Champions (men)
1900–1919 1920–1939 1940–1959 1960–1979 1980–1999 2000–2019 2020–2039
Riders on Team Jayco–AlUla