Lachlan Morton

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Lachlan Morton
Morton at the 2014 Tour de l'Ain
Personal information
Full nameLachlan David Morton
NicknameLachy
Born (1992-01-02) 2 January 1992 (age 32)
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Current teamEF Education–EasyPost
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber (road)
Amateur teams
2011–2012Chipotle–Garmin Development Team
2012Garmin–Sharp (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2013–2014Garmin–Sharp
2015–2016Jelly Belly–Maxxis[1]
2017–2018Team Dimension Data
2019–EF Education First[2][3][4]
Major wins
Stage races
Tour of Utah (2016)

Lachlan David Morton (born 2 January 1992) is an Australian professional gravel and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.[5]

Career[edit]

Born and raised in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, Morton spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons in the Garmin–Sharp squad's development stable, Chipotle–First Solar Development Team.[6][7]

Following a successful 2016 season including stage and overall wins at the Tour of the Gila and the Tour of Utah, in September 2016 Team Dimension Data confirmed that Morton would join them for 2017, reuniting him with former Garmin teammate Ben King.[8] He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[9] In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Giro d'Italia.[10]

Ultra-distance cycling[edit]

Morton has participated in a number of ultra-distance cycling events and challenges. In 2014 he completed a 2,500-kilometre (1,600-mile) ride from Port Macquarie to Uluru with his brother Angus Morton. The brothers made a documentary film about the ride titled "Thereabouts".[11][12][13] In 2015 "Thereabouts Reprise" was released about a 600-mile (970-kilometre) ride across the Colorado Rockies that Morton completed with his brother, and professional cyclists Taylor Phinney and Cameron Wurf.[14] In 2017 the Morton brothers released a third documentary titled "Thereabouts Colombia" about cycling in Colombia.[15][16]

In 2019 Morton participated in the Unbound Gravel, Leadville 100, GBDuro and Three Peaks Cyclocross races as part of EF Pro Cycling's alternative calendar.[17][18] He was first to finish the 2019 GBDuro, a 2,000-kilometre (1,200-mile) challenge from Land's End to John o' Groats in the United Kingdom.[19] In May 2020 he set a new record of 11 hours and 14 minutes for the 142-mile (229-kilometre) Kokopelli's Trail in the United States.[20] In September 2020 he won the Badlands, a 700 kilometre race across the Iberian Peninsula.[21]

Everesting[edit]

Morton held the Everesting world record, completing the feat in 7:29:57 on 20 June 2020. The feat garnered significant publicity, as Morton had made an attempt just days earlier which was disqualified by Hells 500, who stated that he had not reached the threshold to count as an Everesting.[22][23][24][25] Since then, Alberto Contador and three other riders have surpassed Morton's time.[26]

2021 Alt Tour[edit]

In 2021, Morton completed an "Alt Tour", riding the entire 2021 Tour de France route, including transfers, unsupported in aid of World Bicycle Relief. He started in Brittany on the same day as the regular Tour, but built up a lead on the peloton by riding for 12 hours a day. After 5,510-kilometre (3,420-mile) and 16 days, he finished the ride in Paris about 5 days ahead of the peloton.[27]

Major results[edit]

2009
5th Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
2010
1st Overall Tour de l'Abitibi
1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 6
7th Overall Tour of Utah
2011
2nd Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
3rd Overall Tour of the Gila
6th Overall Tour de Langkawi
7th Overall Giro do Interior de São Paulo
2012
6th Overall Tour de Guadeloupe
1st Young rider classification
8th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
2013
Tour of Utah
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
5th Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
1st Young rider classification
2015
1st Mount Evans Hill Climb
5th Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
9th Overall Tour de Beauce
10th Overall Tour of Utah
2016
1st Overall Tour of Utah
1st Stages 3 & 7
1st Overall Tour of the Gila
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 4 Tour de Hokkaido
4th Overall Tour de Beauce
2017
7th Overall Tour of California
1st Young rider classification
8th Overall Tour of Oman
2019
1st GBDURO
1st Stage 5 Tour of Utah
3rd Leadville Trail 100 MTB
4th Unbound Gravel 200
2021
1st Telluride 100 MTB
2nd Leadville Trail 100 MTB
2023
1st Wild Horse Gravel
2nd Overall Migration Gravel Race
1st Stage 2
3rd Unbound Gravel 200

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]

Grand Tour 2017 2018 2019 2020
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 111
A yellow jersey Tour de France
A red jersey Vuelta a España 90
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Outback trip leads Morton brothers to Jelly Belly". CyclingNews. CyclingNews. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ^ "EF Education First Pro Cycling". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  3. ^ Bacon, Ellis (1 January 2020). "2020 Team Preview: EF Education First". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ "EF Education - Nippo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Our Team". EF Education–EasyPost. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Lachlan Morton Interview: Big name to watch". VeloNation. Chevy Chase, Maryland: VeloNation LLC. 16 December 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Morton signs with Garmin-Sharp". SBS One. Artarmon, New South Wales: Special Broadcasting Service. 23 November 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  8. ^ O'Shea, Sadhbh (29 September 2016). "King, Thwaites and Morton join Dimension Data for 2017". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  9. ^ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  10. ^ "103rd Giro d'Italia: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Thereabouts". CyclingTips. April 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  12. ^ "Thereabouts – the doco". CyclingTips. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Thereabout (2014)". IMDb. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  14. ^ "Thereabouts Reprise (2015)". IMDb. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  15. ^ "Thereabouts 3: Discovering Colombia". CyclingTips. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  16. ^ "Thereabouts Colombia (2017)". IMDb. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  17. ^ "Lachlan Morton - EF Pro Cycling". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  18. ^ "No Borders - EF Pro Cycling". Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  19. ^ "Lachlan Morton wins unassisted 2,000km Land's End to John O'Groats endurance race". Cycling Weekly. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  20. ^ "Lachlan Morton smashes Kokopelli Trail record". Cycling News. 31 May 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  21. ^ "Lachlan Morton Wins Badlands 2020 in Just Over 43 hours". BIKEPACKING.com. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  22. ^ "Morning Ride". Strava.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  23. ^ "We never intended for there to be Everesting records..." Instagram.com. Hells 500. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  24. ^ "Everesting Hall of Fame - Lachlan Morton". everesting.cc. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  25. ^ "Everest (apparently there's some data lag with the elevation, I'll leave that to the experts) 42 laps of rist was hell". Strava.com. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  26. ^ "Alberto Contador breaks Everesting record with time of 7:27:20". cyclingtips.com.
  27. ^ "Lachlan Morton has finished his Alt Tour five days early". CyclingTips. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.

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