Cameron Meyer

Cameron Meyer
Meyer at the 2018 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Born (1988-01-11) 11 January 1988 (age 36)
Viveash, Western Australia, Australia
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeRoleur
Amateur team
Midland CC
Professional teams
2009–2011Garmin–Slipstream
2012–2015GreenEDGE[1]
2016Team Dimension Data
2017Mitchelton Scott
2018–2022Mitchelton–Scott.[2][3][4]
Major wins
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)
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Men's track cycling
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Pruszków Points race
Gold medal – first place 2010 Ballerup Points race
Gold medal – first place 2010 Ballerup Madison
Gold medal – first place 2010 Ballerup Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2011 Apeldoorn Madison
Gold medal – first place 2012 Melbourne Points race
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Points race
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2018 Apeldoorn Points race
Silver medal – second place 2009 Pruszków Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2009 Pruszków Madison
Silver medal – second place 2011 Apeldoorn Points race
Silver medal – second place 2017 Hong Kong Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Melbourne Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Apeldoorn Madison
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Points race
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Scratch
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Team pursuit
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Time trial

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]

Major results

Road

2005
7th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
2006
National Junior Championships
1st Road race
2nd Time trial
5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
2007
1st Overall Tour of Tasmania
1st Stages 2 & 5
1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland
2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships
2008
1st Overall Tour of Japan
3rd Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2009
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2010
1st Time trial, National Championships
3rd Overall Tour of Oman
2011
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Overall Tour Down Under
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 4
1st Overall Tour de Perth
3rd OCBC Cycle Singapore
2012
2nd Time trial, National Championships
3rd Team time trial, UCI World Championships
10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
2013
1st Road race, Oceania Championships
1st Criterium, National Championships
1st Mountains classification, Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
5th Overall Tour of California
5th Overall Tour of Turkey
10th Overall Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
2014
1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
4th Road race, National Championships
9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
2015
1st Overall Herald Sun Tour
1st Sprints classification
1st Stage 1
4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
Combativity award Stage 1 Vuelta a España
2016
2nd Road race, National Championships
2017
1st Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen
3rd Overall Rás Tailteann
3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
4th Overall Herald Sun Tour
7th Overall Tour of China I
7th Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay
2018
Commonwealth Games
1st Time trial
9th Road race
1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
2019
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
National Championships
3rd Road race
3rd Time trial
2020
1st Road race, National Championships
2021
1st Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia DNF 137 136 — — DNF — — — — — DNF 111
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — — — 130 — — — — — — — —
A gold jersey/A red jersey Vuelta a España — — — DNF — DNF DNF — — — — — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

2005
1st Madison, National Junior Championships (with Adam O'Connor)
2006
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Madison (with Travis Meyer)
1st Team pursuit
National Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Team pursuit
1st Madison (with Travis Meyer)
2007
UCI World Cup Classics
3rd Points race, Sydney
3rd Points race, Beijing
2008
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Points race, Los Angeles
3rd Team pursuit, Copenhagen
2009
UCI World Championships
1st Points race
2nd Madison (with Leigh Howard)
2nd Team pursuit
2010
UCI World Championships
1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
1st Points race
1st Team pursuit
Commonwealth Games
1st Team pursuit
1st Points race
1st Scratch
UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne
1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
1st Team pursuit
2011
UCI World Championships
1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
2nd Points race
Oceania Championships
1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
1st Team pursuit
1st Madison, National Championships (with Leigh Howard)
2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard)
2012
1st Points race, UCI World Championships
1st Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard)
2016
1st Madison, National Championships (with Sam Welsford)
2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Glasgow (with Callum Scotson)
3rd Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
2017
UCI World Championships
1st Points race
1st Team pursuit
2nd Madison (with Callum Scotson)
National Championships
1st Points race
1st Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
1st Madison, UCI World Cup (with Callum Scotson), Pruszków
1st Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
2018
UCI World Championships
1st Points race
3rd Madison (with Callum Scotson)

References

  1. ^ "Bobridge, Meyer brothers first Australian signings for GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Mitchelton-Scott finalise 25-rider roster for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Wins from January to October: Mitchelton-Scott men confirm roster and goals for 2020". Mitchelton–Scott. New Global Cycling Services. 11 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ "GreenEDGE Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "AIS Athletes at the Olympics". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
  6. ^ "Australian cycling team GreenEdge sign young cyclists Cameron and Travis Meyer and Jack Bobridge". The Courier-Mail. Australian Associated Press. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  7. ^ "News shorts: Meares aiming high for record-breaking Rio Olympics". cyclingnews.com. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  8. ^ "Cameron Meyer leaves Dimension Data citing personal reasons". 15 June 2016.
  9. ^ "Six Day London 2016: Day 6 Results". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Cameron Meyer returns to the WorldTour with Orica-Scott". cyclingnews.com. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Cameron Meyer takes back-to-back Aussie titles in incredible sprint finish". 7 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Cameron Meyer ready to move onto the next chapter, concluding his 13-year long road cycling career". greenedgecycling.com. Team BikeExchange–Jayco. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  13. ^ Tom Davidson (7 September 2022). "Australian pro Cameron Meyer appointed as British Cycling track coach". cyclingweekly.com.
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