Lucas's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Cycling
Event: Men's Road Race
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1996
State Born: VIC
About Lucas
Lucas started cycling at 12-years-old with the Ararat and Districts Cycling Club and in 2014 was given a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship.
After gaining his first national team selection in 2016, Lucas raced the U19 World Road Race Championship. He went onto win the Mountains Classification at the 2016 Tour de l’Avenir - an event that is widely regarded as the U23 Tour de France – and finished the event as runner-up.
In 2017, Lucas signed a three-year deal with Mitchelton-SCOTT. That year, he won the U23 Oceania Road Race Championships and finished an impressive second overall at the 2017 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, GP Palio del Recioto and GP Marmo. Lucas was also named Best Young Rider for Australia’s WorldTour one-day classic and the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
Lucas joined the World Tour with Mitchelton-SCOTT in 2018, and has since continued to rise in the world standings. He won Stage 1 and Stage 2 at the 2018 Hammer Stavange, and in 2019 won Stage 1 and Stage 4 at the Czech Cycling Tour.
Returning to Australia for the 2020 Tour Down Under, Lucas walked away with a ninth place finish. He went on to place second at the 2020 National Road Race Championships. That same year, Lucas won his maiden World Tour win on stage four of Tirreno Adriatico.
Lucas began his fourth professional year signing with Team BikeExchange, and has stepped up to lead the team at the 2021 Tour de France in their general classification campaign.
Lucas Hamilton headed straight from the Tour de France to Tokyo after receiving a late call-up to replace Cameron Meyer on the Australian team for the Games.
Sent as a domestique to work for team leader Richie Porte, Hamilton did his best over a brutal 244km course and eventually finished in 71st place, 16mins 20secs behind gold medallist Richard Carapaz from Ecuador.
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