Luke Plapp
Lucas Plapp (born 25 December 2000) is an
Lucas Plapp
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
Junior career
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
Plapp, 2018 UCI World Championships,
Innsbruck, Austria.[6] Plapp is part of the AusCycling
Innsbruck.
High Performance Podium Academy and was selected
to compete in the Team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Personal information
Olympics, where they won the bronze medal.[7] Nickname Plappy
Born 25 December 2000
Melbourne, Australia
Professional career
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Plapp rode as a stagiaire for UCI WorldTeam Ineos
Team information
Grenadiers in 2021 before joining them full-time in
2022.[8] On 16 January 2022, he won the Australian Current team Team Jayco–AlUla
National Road Race Championships after chasing Discipline Road
down and passing James Whelan with under 10 Track
kilometres (6.2 mi) left, before finishing solo.[9] Plapp
made his World tour debut in February 2022 at the Role Rider
UAE Tour where he rode in support of teammate Rider type Time trialist
Adam Yates who finished 2nd overall. Plapp himself Amateur teams
managed his first World Tour top 5 on the 7th and final 2010–2017 Brunswick Cycling Club
stage to Jebal Hafeet in which he finished in 5th place, 2017–2018 Nero-Kom Racing
16 seconds behind winner Tadej Pogačar. 2019–2021 Inform TM Insight Make[1]
Professional teams
2019–2020 Australian Podium
Major results Potential Academy (track)
2021 Ineos Grenadiers (stagiaire)
Sources:[10][11]
2022–2023 Ineos Grenadiers
Road 2024– Team Jayco–AlUla
2017 Major wins
7th Time trial, Oceania Junior One-day races and Classics
Championships
2018 National Time Trial Championships
1st Time trial, Oceania Junior (2021, 2024, 2025)
Championships National Road Race Championships
1st Time trial, National Junior
(2022, 2023, 2024)
Championships
2nd Time trial, UCI World Junior
Championships Medal record
2019 Representing Australia
2nd Time trial, National Under-23
Championships Men's track cycling
5th Time trial, Oceania Under-23 Olympic Games
Championships
2020 Tokyo Team pursuit
2020
1st Time trial, National Under-23 Commonwealth Games
Championships 2022 Birmingham Team pursuit
2021 (1 pro win)
1st Time trial, National Championships UCI Junior Track World Championships
2nd Time trial, UCI World Under-23 2018 Aigle Points
Championships 2018 Aigle Madison
2022 (1)
1st Road race, National Championships 2018 Aigle Team pursuit
3rd Team relay, UCI World Men's road bicycle racing
Championships
3rd Overall Tour of Norway World Championships
Commonwealth Games 2021 Brugge Under-23 time trial
5th Time trial 2022 Wollongong Mixed team relay
6th Road race
9th Overall Tour de Romandie
2023 (1)
1st Road race, National Championships
2nd Overall UAE Tour
2024 (2)
National Championships
1st Time trial
1st Road race
6th Overall Paris–Nice
Giro d'Italia
Held after Stage 7
2025 (1)
National Championships
1st Time trial
2nd Road race
6th Overall Tour Down Under
General classification results timeline
Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2022 2023 2024 2025
Giro d'Italia — — 52
Tour de France — — —
Vuelta a España 95 — —
Major stage race general classification results
Race 2022 2023 2024 2025
Paris–Nice — — 6
Tirreno–Adriatico — — —
Volta a Catalunya DNF DNS —
Tour of the Basque Country — DNF —
Tour de Romandie 9 — DNF
Critérium du Dauphiné — — —
Tour de Suisse — — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
Track
2018
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Points race
1st Madison (with Blake Quick)
3rd Team pursuit
National Junior Championships[12]
1st Team pursuit
1st Scratch
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong
2019
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Team pursuit
3rd Points race
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Brisbane
2021
3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
3rd Madison, National Championships (with Jensen Plowright)
2022
3rd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
References
1. "Team" (https://informracing.com.au/team). InForm Racing. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
2. "Team Jayco–AlUla" (https://www.uci.org/team-details/19548). UCI. Retrieved 5 January
2024.
3. "Lucas PLAPP" (https://www.uci.org/rider-details/552214). UCI. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
4. "The Score 051223" (https://sportsacademy.maribsc.vic.edu.au/news-and-media/2023/12/4/t
he-score-051223). MSA - Maribyrnong Sports Academy. 4 December 2023. Retrieved
22 January 2024.
5. "Plapp now a dual event Junior World Champion | Victorian Institute of Sport" (http://www.vi
s.org.au/news-events/news/2018/08/plapp-now-a-dual-event-junior-world-champion/).
www.vis.org.au. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
6. "UCI Road World Championships - Men Junior individual time trial- | Tissot Timing" (http://w
ww.tissottiming.com/2018/crdwch/us-en/default/Stage/5/Results#anchor).
www.tissottiming.com. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
7. "Track News" (https://www.australiancyclingteam.com/latesttracknews-955994.html).
Australian Cycling Team. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
8. Benson, Daniel (30 July 2021). "Ineos Grenadiers announce signing of U23 sensation Luke
Plapp" (https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ineos-grenadiers-announces-signing-of-u23-sen
sation-luke-plapp). CyclingNews. Future plc. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
9. Giuliani, Simone (16 January 2022). "Luke Plapp secures Australian elite men's road race
title" (https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/auscycling-road-national-championships-2022/elit
e-men-s-road-race/results/). CyclingNews. Future plc. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
10. "Luke Plapp" (https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/luke-plapp/2017).
www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
11. "Luke Plapp - FirstCycling.com" (https://firstcycling.com/rider.php?r=76065).
firstcycling.com. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
12. "2018 National Elite & U19 Track Championships" (http://liveresults.cycling.org.au/2018/Trac
kNats/). liveresults.cycling.org.au. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
External links
Lucas Plapp (https://www.uci.org/rider-details/552214) at UCI
Lucas Plapp (https://web.archive.org/web/2023/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfich
e.php?coureurid=148433) at Cycling Archives (archived)
Lucas Plapp (https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/208214) at ProCyclingStats
Lucas Plapp (https://www.cyclebase.nl/cb-content/index.php?lang=en&page=renner&id=796
04) at CycleBase
Lucas Plapp (https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/lucas-plapp) at Olympics.com
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