Luke Durbridge (born 9 April 1991) is an Australian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla.[4] Durbridge specialises in the individual time trial, road races, and various track cycling events.[5][6]
As well as winning the 2012 Australian National Time Trial Championships, Durbridge won both the time trial and the Australian National Road Race Championships in 2013. As a result, he became the first rider to win both titles in the same year at an elite level,[7] Jonathan Hall had previously won both in 1997 but not at an elite level.[8]
Durbridge was born in Greenmount, Western Australia, and started cycling at 14 years of age, competing in triathlons. In 2009 he became the World Junior Individual Time Trial Champion at the UCI Juniors World ChampionshipsinMoscow, Russia; he also won gold in the World Junior Madison Championship. In 2010 he became the youngest ever medal winner in the U23 Individual time trial event of the UCI Road World Championships.
Durbridge joined the GreenEDGE team ahead of the 2012 season, which coincided with him being dropped from the Australian track team.[9][10] After winning the under-23 national time trial title in 2011, Durbridge became the elite national champion in January 2012,[11] beating teammate and two-time defending champion Cameron Meyer by almost seven seconds. His first professional win came in April 2012, taking the overall title at the Circuit de la Sarthe despite being left with only two teammates for the final stage.[12] In June he unexpectedly won the prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné, beating Bradley Wiggins and world time trial champion Tony Martin.[13] He subsequently finished fifth in the Eneco Tour before taking his second general classification win of the year at the 2.1-category Tour du Poitou-Charentes.[14]
In 2021, Durbridge rode in the Olympic road race for the first time at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he finished in 72nd place.[15][16]
Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
Time trial
Overall Mersey Valley Tour
Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
Time trial, Commonwealth Games Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships Time trial, National Under-23 Championships Time trial, National Championships Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
Young rider classification
Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
Young rider classification
Team time trial, UCI World Championships Road race Time trial Team time trial, UCI World Championships
Road race
after Stage 1 Team time trial, UCI World Championships Team time trial, UCI World Championships
Combativity award Stage 18 Tour de France Time trial Time trial
Overall Santos Festival of Cycling[17]
Team relay, UCI World Championships| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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142 | DNF | 109 | — | — | — | 78 | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
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— | 122 | 151 | 112 | DNF | 118 | 109 | — | 100 | DNF | 130 |
 Vuelta a España
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 112 |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | In progress |
Team pursuit Points race Madison (with Alex Carver) Team pursuit Team pursuit, National Championships Team pursuit, UCI World Championships Points race, National ChampionshipsHe came 8th in the World ITT Championships in San Sebastian recently, won the ITT Championship last Wednesday and today won the Road Championship.
Media related to Luke Durbridge at Wikimedia Commons
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