Lachlan Morton

Lachlan David Morton (born 2 January 1992) is an Australian professional road racing cyclist and mountain biker, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Pro Cycling.[3]

Lachlan Morton
Morton at the 2014 Tour de l'Ain
Personal information
Full nameLachlan David Morton
NicknameLachy
Born (1992-01-02) 2 January 1992
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Current teamEF Pro Cycling
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Mountain biking
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Climber (road)
  • Gravel races (MTB)
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]
Major wins
Stage races
Tour of Utah (2016)

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.[4][5]

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.[6] He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[7]

Morton held the Everesting world record, completing the feat in 7:29:57 on June 20 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.[8][9][10] [11] Since then, Alberto Contador surpassed Morton’s time by more than 2 minutes.[12]

Major results
2009
5th Time trial, National Road Championships
2010
1st Overall Tour de l'Abitibi
1st Stages 3 & 6
7th Overall Tour of Utah
2011
2nd Overall Cascade 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 la Guadeloupe
1st Young rider classification
8th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
2013
5th Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
1st Young rider classification
Tour of Utah
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
2015
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 Dirty Kanza 200

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2017
Giro d'Italia —
Tour de France —
Vuelta a España 90
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
gollark: You can /sethome but not /setwarp.
gollark: @Tronzoid no.
gollark: Oops.
gollark: What we need is nodelua.org.
gollark: At least 50% of active users are decent at Lua and usually another language or five hundred.

References
  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. "Lachlan Morton Interview: Big name to watch". VeloNation. Chevy Chase, Maryland: VeloNation LLC. 16 December 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  5. "Morton signs with Garmin-Sharp". SBS One. Artarmon, New South Wales: Special Broadcasting Service. 23 November 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  6. O'Shea, Sadhbh (29 September 2016). "King, Thwaites and Morton join Dimension Data for 2017". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  7. "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  8. "Morning Ride". Strava.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  9. "We never intended for there to be Everesting records..." Instagram.com. Hells 500. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  10. "Everesting Hall of Fame - Lachlan Morton". everesting.cc. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  11. "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.
  12. "Alberto Contador breaks Everesting record with time of 7:27:20". cyclingtips.com.
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