Simon Clarke
Personal information
Clarke at the 2019 Tour de la Provence
Full name	Simon Clarke
Nickname	Simo
Born	(1986-07-18) 18 July 1986 (age 37) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb)
Team information
Current team	Israel–Premier Tech
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Puncheur
Amateur team
2006–2008	Southaustralia.com–AIS

Professional teams
2009	Amica Chips–Knauf
2009–2010	ISD–NERI
2011	Astana
2012–2015	GreenEDGE^[1]
2016–2020	Cannondale^[2]^[3]
2021	Team Qhubeka Assos
2022–	Israel–Premier Tech

Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2022) 1 TTT stage (2013) Giro d'Italia 1 TTT stage (2015) Vuelta a España Mountains classification (2012) 2 individual stages (2012, 2018) One-day races and Classics GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano (2016) La Drôme Classic (2020)

Simon Clarke (born 18 July 1986) is an Australian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Israel–Premier Tech.^[4]^[5] He previously rode for the Astana (2011) and Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–2015) teams in the UCI World Tour.^[6] Before turning professional, Clarke competed in track cycling as an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[7] He is not related to fellow Australian cyclist and past teammate Will Clarke.

Professional career

At the 2012 Vuelta a España, Clarke won the fourth stage of the race, after being a part of an early breakaway that made it home on the mountainous race. The only other survivor of the break was Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Tony Martin, whom Clarke out sprinted to claim his first professional victory.^[8] During the twentieth stage, Clarke placed first at the first three of five categorised climbs, to win the most combative rider for the stage and to secure himself the blue polka-dot jersey, as winner of the mountains classification.^[9]

In September 2015, it was announced that Clarke would join Cannondale for the 2016 season.^[10] He was added to Australia's roster for the 2016 Summer Olympics, replacing Simon Gerrans (Orica–GreenEDGE), who had crashed out of the Tour de France.^[11]

In November 2020, it was announced that Clarke would join the Team Qhubeka Assos team for the 2021 season.^[12] Clarke won the fifth stage of the 2022 Tour de France.^[13] He joined the winning breakaway group on a stage that included eleven sections of cobbles, many of which were unfamiliar sections that had never been used in the Tour or Paris–Roubaix. As the third week began he was forced to quit the Tour for the first time in his career, due to a positive COVID test.^[14]