An Olympic team pursuit champion swaps the boards for the biggest bike race on earth. The Victorian was part of Australia's world-record gold ride at Paris 2024 and brings monstrous flat-road power to the stage 1 team time trial in Barcelona, before turning lead-out man for Ackermann and bodyguard for Matthews. Sports director Mat Hayman calls his and Engelhardt's debuts 'a huge step in their careers'.
Palmarès
- Olympic gold, team pursuit — world record 3:40.730 (Paris 2024)
- Olympic bronze, team pursuit (Tokyo 2020)
- 2× team pursuit world champion (2017, 2019)
- Commonwealth Games team pursuit gold (2018)
- Australian criterium champion (2023)
Cut-out factArrives at his first Tour already an Olympic champion — his Australian quartet's 3:40.730 in Paris 2024 qualifying set both Olympic and world records.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Ben O'Connor, Pascal Ackermann, Luke Durbridge, Felix Engelhardt, Michael Matthews, Luke Plapp, Mauro Schmid — see the full Jayco AlUla team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Nicola, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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