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 Australian National Road Race Championships.
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 Nathan Haas and Mark Renshaw.
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 Six Day London track race with Callum Scotson and placed third overall. He subsequently competed for Australia at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, 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 Herald Sun Tour. 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 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2020 and 2021 he won the Australian National Road Race Championships.
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
Road
2005
7th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
2006
National Junior Championships
:1st Road race
:2nd Time trial
5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
2007
1st Overall Tour of Tasmania
:1st Stages 2 & 5
1st Stage 3 Tour of Gippsland
2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships
2008
1st Overall Tour of Japan
3rd Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2009
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2010
1st Time trial, National Championships
3rd Overall Tour of Oman
2011
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Overall Tour Down Under
:1st Young rider classification
:1st Stage 4
1st Overall Tour de Perth
3rd OCBC Cycle Singapore
2012
2nd Time trial, National Championships
3rd Team time trial, UCI World Championships
10th Overall TirrenoâÂÂAdriatico
:1st Stage 1 (TTT)
2013
1st Road race, Oceania Championships
1st Criterium, National Championships
1st Mountains classification, Circuit de la Sarthe
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 (ITT)
2014
1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
4th Road race, National Championships
9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
2015
1st Overall Herald Sun Tour
:1st Sprints classification
:1st Stage 1
4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
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 Herald Sun Tour
7th Overall Tour of China I
7th Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay
2018
Commonwealth Games
:1st Time trial
:9th Road race
1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
2019
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
National Championships
:3rd Road race
:3rd Time trial
2020
1st Road race, National Championships
2021
1st Road race, National Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Track
2005
1st Madison, National Junior Championships (with Adam O'Connor)
2006
UCI World Junior Championships
:1st Individual pursuit
:1st Madison (with Travis Meyer)
:1st Team pursuit
National Junior Championships
:1st Individual pursuit
:1st Points race
:1st Team pursuit
:1st 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 Points race
:2nd Madison (with Leigh Howard)
:2nd Team pursuit
2010
UCI World Championships
:1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
:1st Points race
:1st Team pursuit
Commonwealth Games
:1st Team pursuit
:1st Points race
:1st Scratch
UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne
:1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
:1st Team pursuit
2011
UCI World Championships
:1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
:2nd Points race
Oceania Championships
:1st Madison (with Leigh Howard)
:1st Team pursuit
1st Madison, National Championships (with Leigh Howard)
2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard)
2012
1st Points race, UCI World Championships
1st Six Days of Berlin (with Leigh Howard)
2016
1st Madison, National Championships (with Sam Welsford)
2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Glasgow (with Callum Scotson)
3rd Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
2017
UCI World Championships
:1st Points race
:1st Team pursuit
:2nd Madison (with Callum Scotson)
National Championships
:1st Points race
:1st Team pursuit
:2nd Individual pursuit
1st Madison, UCI World Cup (with Callum Scotson), Pruszków
1st Six Days of London (with Callum Scotson)
2018
UCI World Championships
:1st Points race
:3rd Madison (with Callum Scotson)
References
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