Jack Bobridge

Jack Bobridge

Bobridge at a 2008 Olympics parade
Personal information
Nickname	Bobby
Born	(1989-07-13) 13 July 1989 Adelaide, Australia
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current team	Trek–Segafredo
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Track Endurance
Amateur team(s)
2004-2007	CSC Team O'Grady
2008–2009	Southaustralia.com-AIS
Professional team(s)
2010–2011	Garmin–Transitions
2012	GreenEDGE
2013–2014	Blanco Pro Cycling
2015	Team Budget Forklifts
2016-	Trek–Segafredo
Major wins
One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2011, 2016)
Medal record Representing  Australia Road bicycle racing 2009 Mendrisio Under-23 time trial Track cycling Olympic Games 2012 London Team pursuit 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit World Championships 2010 Ballerup Team pursuit 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2011 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit 2009 Pruszków Individual pursuit 2009 Pruszków Team pursuit 2012 Melbourne Individual pursuit 2012 Melbourne Team pursuit 2015 Yvelines Individual pursuit 2010 Ballerup Individual pursuit 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Individual pursuit 2010 Delhi Team pursuit 2014 Glasgow Team pursuit 2014 Glasgow Individual pursuit

Jack Bobridge (born 13 July 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist who rides for Trek–Segafredo.

Career

In May 2009, Bobridge signed with Garmin–Slipstream, with his contract starting on 1 January 2010 and had been contracted to race with the team until 2012. He left the team at the end of 2011, and joined GreenEDGE for the 2012 season.^[2] Bobridge left Orica–GreenEDGE at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Blanco Pro Cycling on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.^[3]

In September 2009 he won the under-23 time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.^[4] In January 2011 he became the Australian National Road Race Champion with a daring solo breakaway. On 2 February 2011, he set a new world record for the track 4k individual pursuit.^[5] Bobridge was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[6]

In November 2014 Bobridge was announced as part of the Team Budget Forklifts line-up for 2015 alongside fellow members of the Australian endurance track squad Luke Davison, Glenn O'Shea, Scott Sunderland and Mitchel Mulhearn, riding a domestic programme with a focus on achieving success on the track at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[7]

Bobridge won the opening stage of the 2015 Tour Down Under. He lost the overall lead on stage three but finished the race with the King of the Mountains jersey. On 31 January 2015 Bobridge attempted to break the world hour record in Melbourne. He rode 51.3 kilometres falling short of the record of 51.852 kilometres. However he did break Brad McGee's Australian national hour record of 50.3 kilometres which had stood since 2000.^[8] In September 2015 it was announced that Bobridge would return to the UCI WorldTour peloton in 2016, signing a one-year contract with Trek Factory Racing.^[9] Bobridge is the current Australian Elite Men's Road Race champion.

Bobridge announced his retirement from cycling in November 2016. His retirement was due to the effects of rheumatoid arthritis which he was first diagnosed with in 2010.^[10]

Career achievements

Track

Road

Grand Tour General Classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro	WD	-	WD	WD	-	-	156
Tour	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

References

External links

• Jack Bobridge profile at Cycling Archives

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jack Bobridge.

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's individual pursuit
1946: Gerard Peters 1947: Fausto Coppi 1948: Gerrit Schulte 1949: Fausto Coppi 1950–51: Antonio Bevilacqua 1952–53: Sid Patterson 1954–56: Guido Messina 1957–59: Roger Rivière 1960–61: Rudi Altig 1962: Henk Nijdam 1963: Leandro Faggin 1964: Ferdinand Bracke 1965–66: Leandro Faggin 1967: Tiemen Groen 1968: Hugh Porter 1969: Ferdinand Bracke 1970: Hugh Porter 1971: Dirk Baert 1972–73: Hugh Porter 1974–75: Roy Schuiten 1976: Francesco Moser 1977–78: Gregor Braun 1979: Bert Oosterbosch 1980: Tony Doyle 1981–82: Alain Bondue 1983: Steele Bishop 1984–85: Hans-Henrik Ørsted 1986: Tony Doyle 1987: Hans-Henrik Ørsted 1988: Lech Piasecki 1989: Colin Sturgess 1990: Viatcheslav Ekimov 1991: Francis Moreau 1992: Mike McCarthy 1993: Graeme Obree 1994: Chris Boardman 1995: Graeme Obree 1996: Chris Boardman 1997–98: Philippe Ermenault 1999: Robert Bartko 2000: Jens Lehmann 2001: Alexander Symonenko 2002: Bradley McGee 2003: Bradley Wiggins 2004: Sergi Escobar 2005–06: Robert Bartko 2007–08: Bradley Wiggins 2009–10: Taylor Phinney 2011: Jack Bobridge 2012–13: Michael Hepburn 2014: Alex Edmondson 2015: Stefan Küng 2016: Filippo Ganna

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team pursuit
1993: Australia (Brett Aitken, Stuart O'Grady, Billy Shearsby, Tim O'Shannessy) 1994: Germany (Guido Fulst, Andreas Bach, Jens Lehmann, Danilo Hondo) 1995: Australia (Bradley McGee, Stuart O'Grady, Rodney McGee, Tim O'Shannessy) 1996: Italy (Adler Capelli, Cristiano Citton, Andrea Collinelli, Mauro Trentini) 1997: Italy (Cristiano Citton, Mario Benetton, Adler Capelli, Andrea Collinelli) 1998: Ukraine (Alexander Symonenko, Sergiy Matveyev, Oleksandr Fedenko, Olexandr Klimenko) 1999: Germany (Robert Bartko, Jens Lehmann, Daniel Becke, Guido Fulst) 2000: Germany (Guido Fulst, Sebastian Siedler, Daniel Becke, Jens Lehmann) 2001: Ukraine (Alexander Symonenko, Sergeï Tscherniowsky, Lyubomyr Polatayko, Oleksandr Fedenko) 2002: Australia (Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Stephen Wooldridge, Luke Roberts) 2003: Australia (Graeme Brown, Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Luke Roberts) 2004: Australia (Ashley Hutchinson, Luke Roberts, Peter Dawson, Stephen Wooldridge) 2005: Great Britain (Steve Cummings, Rob Hayles, Paul Manning, Chris Newton) 2006: Australia (Peter Dawson, Matthew Goss, Mark Jamieson, Stephen Wooldridge) 2007: Great Britain (Geraint Thomas, Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins) 2008: Great Britain (Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins) 2009: Denmark (Casper Jørgensen, Jens-Erik Madsen, Michael Færk Christensen, Alex Rasmussen, Michael Mørkøv (qualifying round only)) 2010: Australia (Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn, Cameron Meyer) 2011: Australia (Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn, Luke Durbridge) 2012: Great Britain (Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke, Geraint Thomas, Andy Tennant (qualifying round only)) 2013: Australia (Glenn O'Shea, Alex Edmondson, Mitchell Mulhern, Alexander Morgan) 2014: Australia (Glenn O'Shea, Alex Edmondson, Luke Davison, Miles Scotson (qualifying round only)) 2015: New Zealand (Pieter Bulling, Dylan Kennett, Alex Frame, Marc Ryan) 2016: Australia (Sam Welsford, Michael Hepburn, Callum Scotson, Miles Scotson Alexander Porter, Luke Davison (qualifying round only))