Luke 'Thomas' Ockerby (born 17 May 1992) is an Australian cyclist from
Ulverstone, Tasmania. Ockerby has so far won four Australian Junior Championships and many regional and interstate wheel races including the 2008 Devonport men's Wheel Race, 2009 Mersey Wheel Race and the prestigious
Austral Wheel Race
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in 2011 and represented Australia at the 2009 Youth Olympics. Ockerby currently rides with the Tasmanian Institute of Sport (T.I.S). Also Ockerby rides off the mark of scratch in wheel races, achieving the feat at the age of 17.
Early life
Ockerby was born in
Launceston and lived a childhood of frequent relocation's. Ockerby grew up in mainly north eastern and north western Tasmania including Launceston and
Exeter
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In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
. He currently resides in Ulverstone
Tasmania
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with his family.
Personal life
Ockerby attended
St Brendan-Shaw College in
Devonport, Tasmania
Devonport ( ; Palawa Kani: ''Tiagarra'') is a city in northern Tasmania, Australia, located on the lands of the Pannilerpanner clan of the Palawa nation. It is situated at the mouth of the Mersey River. Devonport had an urban population of 26,1 ...
. In his spare time Ockerby enjoys playing
golf
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and mountain bike riding. In 2006 Ockerby broke his back in a mountain biking accident and made a full recovery within a year.
2007
* Gold - National Junior Track Championships, Sprint
* Bronze - National Jnr Track Championships, TS, TT, Scratch
2008
* Gold - Tasmanian Schoolboys Championship
* Gold - Tasmanian Road Championship
* Silver - Tasmanian Road TT Championship
* Bronze - Tasmanian Criterium Championship
* Silver - U17 National Track Championships, Scratch Race
* Bronze - U17 National Track Championships, TP, TT, IP
2009
* Gold - U17 National Track Championships, Sprint
2009
* Silver - U19 National Track Championships, Scratch Race, Omnium.
2010
* Gold - U19 National Track Championships, Scratch Race
2011
* Silver - Senior Track Championships, Omnium
References
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1992 births
Living people
Australian male cyclists
Cyclists from Tasmania
Sportspeople from Launceston, Tasmania
People from Ulverstone, Tasmania
21st-century Australian people
Sportsmen from Tasmania