Jack Bobridge - Cyclist

Jack Bobridge, Team AIS March 2009 - Photograph:Russell Mountford Personal Details

Date of Birth
13 July 1989
Place of Birth
 Adelaide South Australia
Resides
Evanston Gardens South Australia
Occupation
Cyclist

Sports Background

Discipline
Track & Road
Home Club
Norwood CC
Home State
South Australia
Institute / Academy - AIS & SASI
Professional Teams
Road - Team AIS
Coach
Ian McKenzie / Brian Stephens

General Interest

Ambitions
To ride the track at the 2012 Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and to ride for a ProTour team
Hobbies
Fishing, camping, going to the beach
Personal Sponsors
SASI

2009 - World Champion Under 23 - UCI Road Race World Championship in Mendrisio Switzerland Men's Under-23 Time Trial

Jack Bobridge sets a new Championship record for the 4km individual pursuit at the Australian Track Cycling Championships at Adelaide's Superdrome. 3 February, 2009 - Photograph:John VeageCareer Highlights

Major Awards/Honours
2008 South Aust Junior Sports Star of the Year
2007 Aust Junior Male Road Cyclist of the Year
2006 SASI Cyclist of the Year
2006 SASI Junior Sports Award of the Year
2006 Advertiser & Ch7 Sportstar of the Year

Australian Teams
2009 Track World Championships POL
2008 Olympic Games CHN
2008 Track World Championships GBR
2007 Junior Road World Championships MEX
2007 Junior Track World Champships MEX
2006 Junior Track World Championships BE

Information & images - Cycling Australia

Respected Sydney Morning Herald cycling correspondent reckons Lance Armstrong remains a fully paid up member of the Jack Bobridge fan club.

He's the real deal: Lance all atwitter over Bobridge

Rupert Guinness
September 25, 2009

JACK BOBRIDGE has been lauded as the ''real deal'' by seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong following the young Australian's victory in the under-23 time trial world championship.

Armstrong, who said during this year's Tour that 20-year-old Bobridge would have been one of the first-choice recruits for his new RadioShack team had he not already signed with rival US squad Garmin for two years, passed on his congratulations to the South Australian yesterday.

The Texan said he was eager to race against Bobridge in next year's Tour Down Under in Adelaide from January 17 to 24, when Armstrong's team will make its racing debut.

After learning of Bobridge's time-trial win at Mendrisio in Switzerland on Wednesday, Armstrong yesterday wrote ''Congrats to Jack'' in a Twitter message to the Herald.

''He's the real deal and deserves this result. I look forward to racing with him in the Tour Down Under,'' wrote Armstrong, who first met Bobridge on a training ride before this year's Tour Down Under, where the American launched his international comeback after 3½ years in retirement.

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