Michael Rogers (cyclist)

Michael Rogers

Rogers at the 2012 Tour de France.
Personal information
Full name	Michael Rogers
Nickname	Dodger, Mick
Born	(1979-12-20) 20 December 1979 (age 44) Barham, New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight	74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)[1]
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur team
2000	Mapei–Quick-Step (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2001–2002	Mapei–Quick-Step
2003–2005	Quick-Step–Davitamon
2006–2010	T-Mobile Team
2011–2012	Team Sky
2013–2016	Saxo–Tinkoff[2]
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2014) Giro d'Italia 2 individual stages (2014) 1 TTT stage (2009) Stage races Tour Down Under (2002) Tour of Belgium (2003) Deutschland Tour (2003) Tour of California (2010) Bayern Rundfahrt (2012) One-day races and Classics World Time Trial Championships (2003, 2004, 2005) National Time Trial Championships (2009)
Medal record Representing  Australia Men's track cycling Olympic Games 2004 Athens Road time trial Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team pursuit 1998 Kuala Lumpur Scratch race Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2003 Hamilton Time trial 2004 Verona Time trial 2005 Madrid Time trial 1997 San Sebastián Junior time trial 1999 Verona Under-23 time trial 2000 Plouay Under-23 time trial Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester Individual time trial

Michael Rogers (born 20 December 1979) is an Australian retired professional road bicycle racer who competed professionally between 1999 and 2016, for the Mapei–Quick-Step, Quick-Step–Innergetic, Team HTC–Columbia, Team Sky and Tinkoff teams. He is a three-time World Time Trial Champion, winning consecutively in 2003 (after David Millar was stripped for doping), 2004 and 2005, and won Grand Tour stages at the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia.

In April 2016, Rogers announced via Twitter, that he was being forced to retire from professional cycling due to a congenital heart defect condition which had been worsening.^[3]