Luke Plapp

It is not unusual to see Australia's stars of the future emerge during the southern hemisphere summer of racing. This year Luke Plapp didn't so much emerge but instead smashed through with a deafening roar, outriding two top performers on the world stage on the exact territory where they excel and, subsequently, drawing the attention of a flock of WorldTour teams.

Sarah Gigante and Luke Plapp took the women’s and men’s Australian National time Trial titles with Plapp beating defending champion, Luke Durbridge and Gigante beating Grace Brown in the women’s event. Gigante (Tibco-SVB) took the elite and under-23 title for a second year in a row as her great start...

Luke Plapp (Team Garmin Australia) won stage 2 of the men’s National Road Series (NRS) race at the Santos Festival of Cycling, taking off on the final climb and then pushing the pace on the descent to quickly pull out a gap on the chasing group. The 20-year-old Australian was...