Luke Durbridge

Luke Durbridge

Durbridge in 2020
Personal information
Full name	Luke Durbridge
Nickname	Turbo Durbo
Born	(1991-04-09) 9 April 1991 (age 33) Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight	78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Team Jayco–AlUla
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist Time trialist
Professional teams
2010–2011	Team Jayco–Skins
2012–	GreenEDGE[2][3]
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 2 TTT stages (2014, 2015) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2013) National Time Trial Championships (2012, 2013, 2019, 2020)
Medal record Representing  Australia Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2011 Copenhagen Under-23 time trial 2010 Melbourne Under-23 time trial 2022 Wollongong Mixed team relay Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Time trial Men's track cycling World Championships 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit Representing Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–14) Orica–BikeExchange (2016) Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2013 Tuscany Team time trial 2014 Ponferrada Team time trial 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial 2016 Doha Team time trial

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]

Early career

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 Championships in Moscow, 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.

Professional road career

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]

Major results

Road

2009

1st Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships

National Junior Championships

1st Time trial

4th Road race

2010

1st Overall Mersey Valley Tour

1st Prologue

1st Memorial Davide Fardelli

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23

2nd Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships

2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

3rd Time trial, Commonwealth Games

3rd Chrono Champenois

2011

1st Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships

1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

1st Chrono Champenois

3rd Memorial Davide Fardelli

7th Overall Olympia's Tour

1st Prologue & Stage 5 (ITT)

2012 (6 pro wins)

1st Time trial, National Championships

1st Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

1st Young rider classification

1st Stage 3 (ITT)

1st Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

1st Young rider classification

1st Stage 4 (ITT)

1st Prologue Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Duo Normand (with Svein Tuft)

3rd Team time trial, UCI World Championships

5th Overall Eneco Tour

1st Stage 2 (TTT)

7th Overall Three Days of De Panne

2013 (3)

National Championships

1st Road race

1st Time trial

1st Duo Normand (with Svein Tuft)

1st Bay Classic Series

1st Stage 3 (ITT) Circuit de la Sarthe

2nd Team time trial, UCI World Championships

6th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

7th Overall Three Days of De Panne

2014 (1)

Oceania Championships

1st Road race

8th Time trial

Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

Held after Stage 1

2nd Team time trial, UCI World Championships

2nd Time trial, National Championships

2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne

9th Time trial, Commonwealth Games

2015

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia

4th Time trial, National Championships

7th Overall Three Days of De Panne

2016

1st Duo Normand (with Svein Tuft)

3rd Team time trial, UCI World Championships

6th Overall Three Days of De Panne

2017 (1)

1st Stage 3b (ITT) Three Days of De Panne

2nd Time trial, National Championships

4th Dwars door Vlaanderen

4th E3 Harelbeke

6th Strade Bianche

2018

2nd Time trial, National Championships

Combativity award Stage 18 Tour de France

2019 (1)

National Championships

1st Time trial

4th Road race

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Czech Cycling Tour

2020 (1)

National Championships

1st Time trial

4th Road race

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Czech Cycling Tour

2021

1st Overall Santos Festival of Cycling^[17]

1st Stage 1

2nd Time trial, National Championships

6th Overall Benelux Tour

2022

2nd Time trial, National Championships

3rd Team relay, UCI World Championships

2023

2nd Time trial, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Giro d'Italia	142	DNF	109	—	—	—	78	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	122	151	112	DNF	118	109	—	100	DNF	130
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	112

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
IP	In progress

Track

2008

UCI World Junior Championships

1st Team pursuit

3rd Points race

1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne

2009

UCI World Junior Championships

1st Madison (with Alex Carver)

2nd Team pursuit

1st Team pursuit, National Championships

1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne

2010

National Championships

2nd Team pursuit

2nd Points race

2011

1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

1st Points race, National Championships

References

1. "Luke Durbridge". Orica–GreenEDGE. GreenEDGE Cycling. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
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. 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. "Luke Durbridge". Team Jayco-Skins. Archived from the original on 16 May 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
6. "Luke Durbridge". Cycling Australia. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
7. "Dominant Durbridge adds road race gold to time trial success". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. 13 January 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
8. "Australian Road Championships: Men's and Women's Road Race – Perth, November 8, 1997". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 8 November 1997. Retrieved 13 January 2013. He came 8th in the World ITT Championships in San Sebastian recently, won the ITT Championship last Wednesday and today won the Road Championship.
9. Kogoy, Peter (5 April 2012). "Luke Durbridge finds road to his liking". The Australian. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
10. "GreenEdge completes 2012 roster with Durbridge, Hepburn". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
11. Vaughan, Roger (10 January 2012). "Durbridge wins, Bobridge in hospital". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Australian Associated Press. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
12. Kogoy, Peter (7 April 2012). "Three-man GreenEDGE team scores at Circuit Cycliste Sarthe". The Australian. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
13. "Durbridge wins Dauphine prologue". ABC News. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
14. "Durbridge wins Poitou-Charentes". Sky News Australia. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
15. Benson, Daniel (24 July 2021). "Olympics: Richard Carapaz claims men's road race title". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
16. "Luke DURBRIDGE". Olympics.com. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
17. "Durbridge and Gigante take overall honours at the Santos Festival of Cycling". Cycling Tips. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

External links

Media related to Luke Durbridge at Wikimedia Commons

• Luke Durbridge at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Luke Durbridge at ProCyclingStats