Travis Meyer (cyclist)

Travis Meyer
Personal information
Meyer at the 2009 Tour Down Under
Full name	Travis Meyer
Born	(1989-06-08) 8 June 1989 Viveash, Australia
Team information
Current team	Drapac Professional Cycling
Discipline	Road and formerly^[1] track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time Trialist
Amateur team(s)
2008–2009	Southaustralia.com-AIS
Professional team(s)
2010–2011	Garmin–Transitions
2012–2013	GreenEDGE^[2]
2014–	Drapac Professional Cycling
Major wins
National Road Race Championships (2010)
Infobox last updated on 1 February 2014

Travis Meyer (born 8 June 1989 in Viveash) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, riding for Drapac Professional Cycling.^[3] His first Pro Tour race was the 2009 Tour Down Under.^[4] At the beginning of 2010 he was the winner of the Australian National Road Race Championships elite road race.^[5] His brother Cameron Meyer is also a cyclist, and is part of the Orica–GreenEDGE team.

Meyer joined Drapac Professional Cycling for the 2014 season.^[3]

Career highlights

2006

Junior World Track Championships

1st

Madison

1st

Team pursuit

2007

Junior World Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Scratch race

1st

Team pursuit

2008

1st

Overall Tour of Berlin

1st

Overall Tour of Wellington

1st Stages 3 & 7

2009

1st Overall Tour de Perth

1st

Team Pursuit National Track Championships

2010

1st

National Road Race Championships

5th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie

2015

8th overall Tour de Taiwan^[6]

9th Overall Tour de Korea^[7]

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2012	2013
Giro	—	—
Tour	—	—
Vuelta	165	—

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

References

↑ http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/6824/Travis-Meyer-retires-from-track-racing-plans-to-put-everything-into-road-career.aspx
↑ "Bobridge, Meyer brothers first Australian signings for GreenEdge". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 5 August 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
1 2 "Drapac announce three more signings". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 21 October 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
↑ "Travis Meyer". Cycling Australia. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
↑ Meyer solos to elite road title
↑ "Pourseyedigolakhour wins Tour de Taiwan overall". cyclingnews.com. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
↑ "Ewan wins overall at the Tour de Korea". cyclingnews.com. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.

External links

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Riders on Drapac Professional Cycling

Jack Anderson Jonathan Cantwell Will Clarke Jai Crawford Floris Goesinnen Robbie Hucker Ben Johnson Jordan Kerby Darren Lapthorne Travis Meyer Lachlan Norris Thomas Palmer Adam Phelan Malcolm Rudolph Bernard Sulzberger Wesley Sulzberger Wouter Wippert Manager: Jonathan Breekveldt

Australian National Road Race Champions (men)

1900–1919	A Ralston (1901) HG O'Callaghan (1902) Jack Arnst, NZ (1903) Tom Larcombe (1904) William Hawley (1905) H Mehrtens, NZ (1906) Tom Larcombe (1907) M Chappell (1908) Iddo Munro (1909) Joe Pianta (1910) Phil O'Shea, NZ (1911)

1920–1939	Phil O'Shea (1922-1923) Hubert Opperman (1924) Harold Smith (1925) Hubert Opperman (1926–1927) Hubert Opperman (1929) Richard Lamb (1930) Matt Lynch (1931) Richard Lamb (1932) Hefty Stuart (1933) Clinton Beasley (1935) Alan Angus (1936-1937) Dean Toseland (1938-1939)

1940–1959	Keith Rowley (1947) Keith McFarlane (1948) Alby Saunders (1949) Keith Rowley (1950) John Beasley (1951) Neil Peadon (1952) Alby Saunders (1953) Eddie Smith (1954–1955) Russell Mockridge (1956–1958) Fred Roche (1959)

1960–1979	Fred Roche (1960) Neville Veale (1961) John O'Sullivan (1962) Warwick Dalton (1963) Barry Waddell (1964) Matt Martino (1965) Kerry Hoole (1966) Graeme Gilmore (1967) Barry Waddell (1968) Robert Whetters (1969) Graham McVilly (1970–1971) Kevin Spencer (1972) Kerry Hoole (1973) Graham Rowley (1974) Donald Wilson (1975) Peter Besanko (1976) Donald Wilson (1977) John Trevorrow (1978–1979)

1980–1999	John Trevorrow (1980) Clyde Sefton (1981) Wayne Hildred (1982) Terry Hammond (1983) Peter Besanko (1984) Laurie Venn (1985) Wayne Hildred (1986) Allan Dipple (1987) Paul Miller (1988) Gary Clively (1989) Damian McDonald (1990) Neil Stephens (1991) David McFarlane (1992) Eddy Salas (1993) Neil Stephens (1994) Robbie McEwen (1995) Nick Gates (1996) Jonathan Hall (1997) David McKenzie (1998) Henk Vogels (1999)

2000–2019	Jamie Drew (2000) Steve Williams (2001) Robbie McEwen (2002) Stuart O'Grady (2003) Matthew Wilson (2004) Robbie McEwen (2005) Russell Van Hout (2006) Darren Lapthorne (2007) Matthew Lloyd (2008) Peter McDonald (2009) Travis Meyer (2010) Jack Bobridge (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Luke Durbridge (2013) Simon Gerrans (2014) Heinrich Haussler (2015) Jack Bobridge (2016)

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