Darren Lapthorne

Darren Lapthorne
Personal information
Full nameDarren Lapthorne
Born (1983-03-04) 4 March 1983 (age 36)
Melbourne, Australia
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur team(s)
2005MG Xpower–BigPond
Professional team(s)
2006–2007Drapac–Porsche
2008Sparkasse
2009–2010Rapha Condor
2011–2015Drapac Professional Cycling
Major wins
National Road Race Championships (2007)

Darren Lapthorne (born 4 March 1983 in Melbourne) is an Australian professional racing cyclist currently riding for Drapac Cannondale Holistic Development Team.[1]

Career

Lapthorne began his career in 2006 with the Australian Professional Team Drapac–Porsche. In his first year, he won the road race of the Teams Road Championships. He also finished third in one stage of the Herald Sun Tour. In January 2007 he achieved his greatest success by winning the Australian National Road Race Championships. He rode for the German Team Sparkasse in 2008 and for British team Rapha Condor in 2009.

He retired from professional racing in 2016.[2]

Personal life

In December 2008, Lapthorne returned to competition after 2 months out[3] following the much-publicised 18 September 2008 disappearance and death of his younger sister, Britt (born 1987), while she was backpacking in Dubrovnik, Croatia.[4][5] During this time, Lapthorne was heavily involved in the early informal efforts to identify her whereabouts,[6][7] and for helping to expose the lack of attention given to the case by local police. Later, in 2015, he assisted in the repatriation of her remains to Australia[8] and also attended the subsequent state coroner's hearing.[9]

Major results

2005
1st Stage 9, Tour of the Murray River
2006
1st Stage 7, Tour de Korea
1st Stage 4, Tour of Gippsland
2007
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st Stage 1b, Tour of the Southern Grampians
1st Stage 1, Mersey Valley Tour
1st Overall De Bortoli Tour
1st Stages 1a & 2
1st Melle
2nd Overall Tour de Hokkaido
1st Stage 5
2008
1st Stage 5, Geelong Bay Classic Series, Geelong
2009
1st, Stage 2, Tour de Beauce
2010
2nd Ryedale Grand Prix[10]
2013
8th Overall Tour of Japan
10th Overall Tour of Hainan
2014
3rd Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan

References

  1. ^ "Drapac Professional Cycling (DPC) - AUS". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 1 February 2014.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Darren Lapthorne retires from professional cycling". www.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Lapthorne to carry on for tragic sister". The Sydney Morning Herald. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Lapthorne riding in Britt's memory". The Age. 11 December 2008. Archived from the original on 30 December 2008.
  5. ^ "Interview: Darren Lapthorne". British Cycling. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Case 102: Britt Lapthorne". Casefile: True Crime Podcast. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  7. ^ Bradley, Seamus (28 September 2008). "Frantic brother races to Croatia". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Britt's final journey home begins". SBS News. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Coroner to deliver open finding on backpacker Britt Lapthorne's death". ABC News. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Partridge proves too good for his Ryedale Grand Prix rivals". Yorkshire Post. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2015.

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