Luke Plapp

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Lucas Plapp
File:20180925 UCI Road World Championships Innsbruck Men Juniors ITT Lucas Plapp 850 8421.jpg
Personal information
NicknamePlappy
Born (2000-12-25) 25 December 2000 (age 25)
Melbourne, Australia
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Team information
Current teamTeam Jayco–AlUla
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-Rounder, Time trialist
Amateur teams
2010–2017Brunswick Cycling Club
2017–2018Nero-Kom Racing
2019–2021Inform TM Insight Make[1]
Professional teams
2019–2020Australian Podium
Potential Academy (track)
2021Ineos Grenadiers (stagiaire)
2022–2023Ineos Grenadiers
2024–Team Jayco–AlUla
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2025)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships
(2021, 2024, 2025)
National Road Race Championships
(2022, 2023, 2024)

Lucas Plapp (born 25 December 2000) is an Australian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla.[2][3] He is an alumnus of Maribyrnong Sports Academy, class of 2018.[4]

Career

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Junior career

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In August 2018, Plapp won the points race as well as the Madison with Blake Quick at the UCI Junior Track World Championships in Aigle, Switzerland.[5] Plapp also placed 2nd to Remco Evenepoel in the time trial at the 2018 UCI Junior Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.[6] Plapp is part of the AusCycling High Performance Podium Academy and was selected to compete in the Team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where they won the bronze medal.[7]

Professional career

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Plapp rode as a stagiaire for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers in 2021 before joining them full-time in 2022.[8] On 16 January 2022, he won the Australian National Road Race Championships after chasing down and passing James Whelan with under 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) left, before finishing solo.[9] Plapp made his World tour debut in February 2022 at the UAE Tour where he rode in support of teammate Adam Yates who finished 2nd overall. Plapp himself managed his first World Tour top 5 on the 7th and final stage to Jebal Hafeet in which he finished in 5th place, 16 seconds behind winner Tadej Pogačar.

Major results

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Sources:[10][11]

General classification results timeline

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Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2022 2023 2024 2025
File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 52 DNF
File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 121
File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 95
Major stage race general classification results
Race 2022 2023 2024 2025
File:Jersey yellow.svg Paris–Nice 6
File:MaillotAzul.PNG Tirreno–Adriatico
File:MaillotVolta.png Volta a Catalunya DNF DNS
File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour of the Basque Country DNF
File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de Romandie 9 DNF 72
File:Jersey yellow-bluebar.svg Critérium du Dauphiné
File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de Suisse
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

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2018
UCI World Junior Championships
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg Points race
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg Madison (with Blake Quick)
3rd File:Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit
National Junior Championships[12]
1st File:MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
1st File:MaillotAustralia.PNG Scratch
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong
2019
National Championships
1st File:MaillotAustralia.PNG Individual pursuit
1st File:MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
3rd Points race
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Brisbane
2021
3rd File:Bronze medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
3rd Madison, National Championships (with Jensen Plowright)
2022
3rd File:Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games

References

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