Lachlan David Morton (born 2 January 1992) is an Australian professional

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and mountain biker, who currently rides for

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Career

Born and raised in

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, Australia, Morton spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons in the squad's development stable, . Following a successful 2016 season including stage and overall wins at the

Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI America ...

and the

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, in September 2016 confirmed that Morton would join them for 2017, reuniting him with former Garmin teammate Ben King. He was named in the startlist for the

2017 Vuelta a España The 2017 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain between 19 August and 10 September 2017. The race was the 72nd edition of the Vuelta a España and the final Grand Tour of the 2017 cycling season. ...

. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the

2020 Giro d'Italia The 2020 Giro d'Italia was a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 25 October, after initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the ...

Ultra-distance cycling

Morton has participated in a number of

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events and challenges. In 2014 he completed a ride from Port Macquarie to Uluru with his brother Angus Morton. The brothers made a documentary film about the ride titled "Thereabouts". In 2015 "Thereabouts Reprise" was released about a ride across the Colorado Rockies that Morton completed with his brother, and professional cyclists

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and

Cameron Wurf Cameron Wurf (born 3 August 1983) is an Australian professional triathlete and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He was a national champion and Australian representative rower – a 2004 Olympian who won a World Rowing U23 C ...

. In 2017 the Morton brothers released a third documentary titled "Thereabouts Colombia" about cycling in Colombia. In 2019 Morton participated in the Dirty Kanza,

Leadville 100 The Leadville Trail 100 Run (aka The Race Across The Sky or the LT100) is an ultramarathon held annually on rugged trails and dirt roads near Leadville, Colorado, through the heart of the Rocky Mountains. First run in 1983, the race course climbs ...

, GBDuro and Three Peaks Cyclocross races as part of EF Pro Cycling's alternative calendar. He was first to finish the 2019 GBDuro, a challenge from

Land's End to John o' Groats Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the whole length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities, in the southwest and northeast. The traditional distance by road is and takes most cyclists 10 to 14 days; the record ...

in the United Kingdom. In May 2020 he set a new record of 11 hours and 14 minutes for the Kokopelli's Trail in the United States. In September 2020 he won the Badlands, a 700 kilometre race across the

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Everesting

Morton held the

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world record, completing the feat in 7:29:57 on 20 June 2020. The feat garnered significant publicity, as Morton had made an attempt just days earlier which was disqualified by Hells 500, who stated that he had not reached the threshold to count as an Everesting. Since then,

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and three other riders have surpassed Morton's time.

2021 Alt Tour

In 2021, Morton completed an "Alt Tour", riding the entire

2021 Tour de France The 2021 Tour de France was the 108th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three grand tours. Originally planned for the Danish capital of Copenhagen, the start of the 2021 Tour (known as the ) was transferred to Brest because of the ...

route, including transfers, unsupported in aid of World Bicycle Relief. He started in Brittany on the same day as the regular Tour, but built up a lead on the peloton by riding for 12 hours a day. After and 16 days, he finished the ride in Paris about 5 days ahead of the peloton.

Major results

;2009 : 5th

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, National Junior Road Championships ;2010 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Tour de l'Abitibi The ''Tour de l'Abitibi'' is a junior bicycle stage race taking place in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The race was first held in 1969 and had only Canadian teams. It has since become an international competition part of ...

::1st Stages 3 ( ITT) & 6 : 7th Overall

;2011 : 2nd Overall

Cascade Cycling Classic The Cascade Cycling Classic was the longest running elite road bicycle racing stage race in the United States (1980–2019), with 2018 being the only year the race was not held. The race took place in the Central Oregon region and was based in Be ...

: 3rd Overall

: 6th Overall

Tour de Langkawi The Tour de Langkawi is a multiple stage bicycle race held in Malaysia. It is named after the archipelago Langkawi, where the first edition started and finished. The race has been held annually since 1996, primarily in February. It usually con ...

: 7th Overall Giro do Interior de São Paulo ;2012 : 6th Overall

Tour de Guadeloupe The Tour de Guadeloupe (; en, Tour of Guadeloupe) is an annual men's multiple stage road bicycle race held each August in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Founded in 1948 under the name Tour Cycliste de la Guadeloupe, this elite me ...

::1st

Young rider classification : 8th Overall

Giro della Valle d'Aosta Giro della Valle d'Aosta is a stage race road bicycle race held annually in August in Aosta Valley, Italy. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing c ...

;2013 :

::1st

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 3 : 5th Overall

USA Pro Cycling Challenge The USA Pro Cycling Challenge, also known as USA Pro Challenge, was an annual multi-day professional road bicycle racing stage race that first took place in Colorado in 2011. Originally announced on August 4, 2010 by Colorado Governor Bill Ritt ...

::1st

Young rider classification ;2015 : 1st

Mount Evans Hill Climb The Bob Cook Memorial Mount Evans Hill Climb or Mount Evans Hill Climb is a bicycle race situated on Mount Evans near Idaho Springs, Colorado. Begun in 1962, the race has been held every year since except for three cancellations. In 1981, it was ...

: 5th Overall

: 9th Overall

Tour de Beauce Tour de Beauce is a men's elite professional road bicycle racing multi-day event held each June in the Beauce region of Quebec, Canada since 1986. It is the oldest stage-race in North America, and is a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-rated 2.2 ...

: 10th Overall

;2016 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stages 3 & 7 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 4

Tour de Hokkaido The Tour de Hokkaido is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Hokkaido, Japan since 1987 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race. The event for 2018 was ...

: 4th Overall

;2017 : 7th Overall

Tour of California The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the ...

::1st

Young rider classification : 8th Overall

Tour of Oman The Tour of Oman is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Oman since 2010 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It was scheduled to become part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020, but both the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled d ...

;2019 : 1st GBDURO : 1st Stage 5

: 3rd

Leadville Trail 100 MTB The Leadville Trail 100 MTB is the second oldest of the well-known marathon mountain bike races held in the United States, the oldest being the Wilderness 101 in Central PA. The Leadville Trail 100 MTB was first run in 1994 and has become one ...

: 4th Dirty Kanza 200 ;2021 : 1st Telluride 100 MTB : 2nd

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Garmin-Sharp: Lachlan Morton
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morton, Lachlan 1992 births Living people Australian male cyclists People from the Mid North Coast Cyclists from New South Wales