Luke Plapp

Luke Plapp, born on December 25, 2000, began riding his bicycle as a 12 year old in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia. As his career developed from the amateur to pro ranks, Plapp has gone from winning a trio of gold medals at the Junior Track World Championships in 2018, to representing his home country at two Olympic Games (Tokyo in 2021 and Paris in 2024) and also secure six elite national titles – three in the road race and three in the time trial.

Plapp began his time on the WorldTour as a trainee with Ineos Grenadiers when he was 20 years old, after starting the 2021 season with a breakthrough performance at the Santos Festival of Cycling and then taking a win in his first elite time trial at the National Championships. That was also the same year he helped Australia to a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in the men's Team Pursuit, and then won silver in the U23 time trial at the Road World Championships.

In 2022 he started the season by clinching his first national road race title and then competed on both track and road at his first Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, taking bronze in the Team Pursuit and finishing sixth in the men’s road race.

In the next year he added another Australian road race title followed by second overall in the UAE Tour and at the end of the season parted ways with Ineos Grenadiers.

In 2024 Plapp delivered an ideal opener to his season with new squad Jayco-AlUla, completing a historic hat-trick by winning a third Australian road race championship in a row, and also adding a second time trial national title, even after having to make a bike swap. After crashing in Tour Down Under on stage 3, a pair of podiums in the team time trial and the following stages at Paris-Nice meant he moved in the race lead for two days after stage 4, ultimately finishing sixth overall. In his Giro d'Italia debut, he had four top 10s, including a third place at Rapolano Terme on stage 6. However, in his second Olympic Games he crashed during the time trial in Paris and had to have abdominal surgery.
2025 delivered another Australian time trial title, but he was second in the road race after pulling back to allow teammate Luke Durbridge to claim the green and gold jersey in front of a home crowd in Perth. Wrist surgery dampened his early season run after the Tour Down Under. 

Key Results
2025
🥇 National championship, time trial

🥈 National championship, road race

2024

🥇 National championship, time trial

🥇 National championship, road race

🥈 Paris-Nice, stage 4

🥈 Paris-Nice, team time trial

🥉 One stage at Giro d'Italia

2023

🥇 National championship, road race

🥈 GC at UAE Tour

🥉 One stage at UAE Tour

2022

🥇 National championship, road race

🥈 Youth classification at Tour de Romandie

🥉 Two stages and GC at Tour of Norway

2021

🥇 National championship, time trial

🥈 World Championship men's U23 time trial