Brett Lancaster

Who is Brett Lancaster?

Brett Lancaster is a professional racing cyclist from Australia, currently riding for UCI ProTeam Orica-GreenEDGE. 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, and rode for Garmin-Cervélo in 2011.

His greatest successes as a road cyclist has been placing 1st in the 2005 Prologue of the Giro d'Italia, and thus wearing the race leader's pink jersey. He set a time of 1' 20" for the 1150m 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, Ceramiche Panaria, to ever claim the maglia rosa.

He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit in world record breaking time of 3:58.233.

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.