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. 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

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. Meyer's younger brother Travis Meyer is also a professional racing cyclist, and was one of 's first signings alongside Cameron and fellow Australian Jack Bobridge. After four seasons with , in October 2015 Meyer announced that he would be joining for the 2016 season, alongside fellow Australians

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. Meyer announced his departure from on 14 June 2016; for personal reasons of an undisclosed nature. After a short break, he decided to enter the

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track race with

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and placed third overall. He subsequently competed for Australia at the

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, 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

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. In August 2017, announced that Meyer would rejoin them on a three-year contract from 2018, with a focus on winning the madison at the

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and the

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. In 2020 and 2021 he won the

. Meyer retired from the sport in September 2022, after thirteen years as a professional. Meyer then became the coach for British Cycling's track women's endurance team.

Major results

Track

;2005 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Madison (with Adam O'Connor), National Junior Championships ;2006 : UCI World Junior Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Individual pursuit ::1st Jersey rainbow

Madison (with Travis Meyer) ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit : National Junior Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

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 Jersey rainbow

Points race ::2nd Silver medal blank

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(with

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) ::2nd

Team pursuit ;2010 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

(with

) ::1st

Points race ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit :

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::1st

Team pursuit ::1st Gold medal blank

Points race ::1st Gold medal blank

Scratch : UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne ::1st Madison (with

) ::1st Team pursuit ;2011 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

(with

) ::2nd

Points race : Oceania Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Madison (with

) ::1st

Team pursuit : 1st MaillotAustralia

Madison (with

), National Championships ;2012 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Points race, UCI World Championships ;2016 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Madison (with

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), National Championships : 2nd Madison (with

), UCI World Cup, Glasgow : 3rd

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(with

) ;2017 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Points race ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit ::2nd Silver medal blank

(with

) : National Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit ::2nd Individual pursuit : 1st

(with

) ;2018 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Points race ::3rd Bronze medal blank

(with

)

Road

;2005 : 7th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships ;2006 : National Junior Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Road race ::2nd Time trial : 5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships ;2007 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Stages 2 & 5 : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland : 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships ;2008 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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: 3rd

Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships : 3rd

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;2009 : 2nd Time trial, National Championships ;2010 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Time trial, National Championships : 3rd Overall Tour of Oman ;2011 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Time trial, National Championships : 1st Jersey orange

Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Jersey black

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour de Perth : 3rd

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;2012 : 2nd Time trial, National Championships : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Team time trial, UCI World Championships : 10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) ;2013 : 1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Road race, Oceania Championships : 1st MaillotAustralia

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, National Championships : 1st Jersey pink

Mountains classification,

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: 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 (

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) ;2014 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 4th Road race, National Championships : 9th Overall

;2015 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

Sprints classification ::1st Stage 1 : 4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia : Jersey red number

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

: 7th Overall

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I : 7th Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay ;2018 :

::1st

Time trial ::9th Road race : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain : 2nd Overall

;2019 : 1st Stage 1b ( TTT)

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: National Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd Time trial ;2020 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Championships ;2021 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

Interview on Cyclingresults.net

External links

Profile on Cycling Australia website
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer, Cameron 1988 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Olympic cyclists of Australia Cyclists from Melbourne Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Australian Institute of Sport cyclists Tour de Suisse stage winners Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Australian track cyclists Cyclists from Perth, Western Australia